May 21, 1999
Yale Professor Aims to Bring Order to Your Computer With 'Lifestreams' Program
A Yale University computer scientist is about to release a commercial software program that he says will alleviate "information overload" and change the way people think about computer data. Although the software may not yet live up to its creator's grand vision, it offers some innovative ways to manage large collections of documents.
The idea behind the software is simple, says David Gelernter, the professor
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