Jim Gemmell is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Internet Services Research Center. His current research focus is on personal lifetime storage, as architect of the MyLifeBits project and chair of the First and Second ACM Workshops on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experience (CARPE). Dr. Gemmell received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University and his M. Math from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include personal media management, telepresence, and reliable multicast. He produced the on-line version of the ACM 97 conference and is a co-author of the PGM reliable multicast RFC. Dr. Gemmell has served on the editorial advisory boards of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, Computer Communications and ACM netWorker.