[close] William Jones is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington where he manages the Keeping Found Things Found project. He received his doctorate in 1982 from Carnegie-Mellon University for research into how human memory works.

Dr. Jones has written the book “Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management” (2007) and has also edited the book “Personal Information Management” (with co-editor Jaime Teevan). Dr. Jones has written invited chapters on PIM for ARIST and for the Handbook of Applied Cognition. He has given numerous invited tutorials and organized two workshops on PIM including an invitational workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation and a follow-on workshop in connection with SIGIR 2006 (http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/).

Dr. Jones is getting tired of writing about PIM and hopes to write a book about something completely different some day (such as an updated story about a boy flying atop a goose across Sweden…). [close]