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Welcome to the First ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences -- CARPE'04. Personal storage of all one's media throughout a lifetime has been desired and discussed since at least 1945, when Vannevar Bush published As We May Think, positing the "Memex" device "in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility." His vision was astonishingly broad for the time, including full-text search, annotations, hyperlinks, virtually unlimited storage and even stereo cameras mounted on eyeglasses. In 2004, storage, sensor, and computing technology have progressed to the point of making Memex feasible and even affordable. Indeed, we can now look beyond Memex at new possibilities. In particular, while media capture has typically been sparse throughout a lifetime, we can now consider continuous archival and retrieval of all media relating to personal experiences. The continuous archival paradigm fundamentally alters our relationship to biological memory, since analysis of such media powerfully augments human memory. This workshop brings together leading researchers from around the world to share their findings and insights into this burgeoning field. The call for papers attracted 25 submissions from Asia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. The submissions were reviewed by at least 3 program committee members, from which 8 full papers and 3 demos were accepted. We also have 3 industrial demonstrations, a panel discussion on the future of CARPE and invited talks from pioneering cyborg Steve Mann and industry legend Gordon Bell. Our program covers all aspects of CARPE including capture, retrieval, organization, search, privacy, and legal issues. Attendees will hear about capture ranging from sensing brain waves, body posture and heart rates to recording conversations and computer mouse clicks. We will consider how human memory works, how to represent personal knowledge on computers, and how new forms of artistic expression may emerge.