Remembrance Agent: A continuously running information retrieval system (1996) [pdf]
The paper presents the Remembrance Agent, a continuously running information retrieval system that suggests relevant documents to a user based on their current context, such as text being typed or read, without requiring explicit queries.
Background
This paper, presented at a 1996 AAAI symposium, describes the "Remembrance Agent" (or "Remem"), a system that continuously scans what a user is typing and suggests relevant documents from their personal archive. It was created at the MIT Media Lab by Bradley Rhodes and Thad Starner, pioneers in wearable computing and context-aware AI.