Course Schedule
Schedule at a Glance
Part 1: Understanding PIM
| Session | Date | Topics | Guest Lecturer |
| 1 | April 1 | Foundations of PIM Six kinds of activity. Six sense of personal information. Defining a Personal Space of Information (PSI). |
Jim Gemmell (MyLifeBits) |
| 2 | April 8 | Foundations of PIM (cont.). Teaching better PIM. | Mike Eisenberg |
| 3 | April 15 | Finding and re-finding | Jaime Teevan |
| 4 | April 22 | Keeping, organizing and maintaining | Harry Bruce |
| 5 | April 29 | Managing at the meta-level: Privacy, information flow and the mapping between information and need | Karen Fisher |
Part 2: Improving PIM
| Session | Date | Topics | Guest Lecturer |
| 6 | May 6 | Communication and coordination. Email, instant messaging, face to face and other modes of communication. Task management. | Mary Czerwinski |
| 7 | May 13 | Search | Susan Dumais/Ed Cutrell |
| 8 | May 20 | PIM on the go. Mobile computing. "Nomadic" computing | TBD |
| 9 | May 27 | PIM on the Web | TBD |
| 10 | June 3 | Bringing the pieces together. Course wrap-up. | TBD |
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