Today's desktops are two decades old. They were hot biscuits then, but stale and crumbly---and moldy---bread today.

Some KnownSpace Links

What is KnownSpace?

KnownSpace Manifesto

KnownSpace Applications

Why KnownSpace?
 
The Usability Problem

The Alto---A Love Story

The Personal Computer Revolution Isn't Over

The Personable Machine

Monkeys at the Keyboard

Data Management Problems Today
 
The Programming Problem

Computing In Crisis

Programming and Complexity

A Living Architecture

Fast, Cheap, and Small

Never World Enough and Time

A Science Analogy
 
The KnownSpace Solution

KnownSpace Structure

Linking Pages Into a Space

Working in a Space
 
Websites

KnownSpace Website (Spring 1999)

KnownSpace Website (Summer 1998)
 
Presentations

KnownSpace Presentation (Summer 1999)

KnownSpace Presentation (Spring 1999)

KnownSpace Presentation (Fall 1998)
 
Related Projects

KnownSpace has ties to several other research projects in interfaces, adaptive software, intelligent agents, collaborative filtering, networking, searching, and browsing:

Xerox PARC's Placeless Documents and Harland,

Yale's Lifestreams (see ScopeWare below),

Maryland's Jazz,

UCSD's AVS,

Illinois's VisIT,

Sun's Kansas,

Sony's TimeScape. (Related papers of Jun Rekiomoto)

TouchGraph,

Nexist,

NeuroGrid,

and various commercial efforts:

OpenCola,

ScopeWare,

WebMap,

UrbanPixel,

TheBrain,

Boswell,

InfoSelect,

HumanLinks,

GroveMinder,

ReiserFS,

Pepper (source-code available).

Here's an overview paper (gzipped postscript): A New Data Model: Persistent Attribute-Centric Objects, with Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Terry Jones.

...and a multitude of related links