August 6th, 2008
An interesting article in the BBC News magazine recently afforded us a rare glimpse into the problem as seen from the perspective of two politicians – no less than Barack Obama and British opposition leader David Cameron.
Personally I always thought that senior leaders of nations have licked Information Overload. After all, one can’t imagine that the President of the United States slaves for hours each day over a flooded email inbox… he must have a dozen aides summarizing the news and distilling for their chief a beautifully short list of what he really needs to know… Read the rest of this entry »
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July 15th, 2008
With the Information Overload Research Group launched and our first conference underway, it’s about time to get started with our blog. We’ll be using this blog to provide updates on IORG progress and activities, share our thoughts about various information overload related topics, and provide opportunities for IORG members to share their own experience, research, and opinions. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 12th, 2007
So, again… writing a first post to a new blog. Small step and all that, but it’s really the quintessential “new beginning”…
First I’m supposed to tell you who I am, so here goes: I’m Nathan Zeldes, an Applied Physicist turned IT Engineer. I’m a Principal Engineer at Intel, and for the past 12 years I’ve been driving R&D in the field of Computing Productivity, that fascinating no man’s land where our nice, crisp computer technology meets the unpredictable, demanding, sometimes vexing yet always precious wetware that is our user base. When I’m not working, I actually manage to program computers for fun, and I have a collection of computing history; you can have a peek at http://www.nzeldes.com .
Information Overload has been my arch-enemy for more than a decade; I identified it as a problem as early as 1995, when Windows-based email first arrived in my workplace and enabled people to send messages with large attachments to large lists with the click of a button. Read the rest of this entry »
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