William Jones is an Associate Research Professor in The Information School where he manages the Keeping Found Things Found project in collaboration with Harry Bruce. Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University for research in human memory. He has published basic research in cognitive psychology as well as More...more applied research in personal information management (PIM), information retrieval and human-computer interaction. He has worked as a program manager at the Microsoft Corporation, where he was involved in the production of information management features for both Microsoft Office and MSN Search. He also worked as an internal consultant at Boeing, where he led an effort to create an information repository for flight deck problems and design rationale. Dr. Jones holds 5 patents relating to search and PIM. Less...