Biography:Adam Cheyer

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Short description: Co-founder of Siri Inc.
Adam Cheyer
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Adam Cheyer, Co-Founder of Siri
Born1966-1967
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSharon High School
Brandeis University
UCLA
Known forSiri, CALO
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsApple, Inc.
Siri
SRI International
Change.org
Genetic Finance/Sentient Technologies

Adam Cheyer (born c. 1966) is a co-founder of Siri Inc. and formerly a director of engineering in the iPhone group at Apple.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Cheyer attended Sharon High School, in Sharon, Massachusetts. After graduating in 1984, Cheyer earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brandeis University in 1988, and a master's degree in computer science and artificial intelligence from UCLA in 1993.[4][5]

Career

Prior to Siri, he was a computer scientist and project director in SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, where he was the Chief Architect on the CALO project.[6] Cheyer was also a member of the founding team at Change.org[7] and a founder of Sentient Technologies (formerly Genetic Finance).[8][9]

Adam left the Siri team in 2012[10] and founded Viv Labs, which was acquired by Samsung in 2016.[11][12]

Selected publications

  • Cheyer, Adam; Martin, David (January 1999). "The Open Agent Architecture: A framework for building distributed software systems". Applied Artificial Intelligence 13 (1–2). 
  • Cheyer, Adam (1998). "Multimodal Maps: An Agent-based Approach". in Bunt. Multimodal Human-Computer Communication, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1374. Springer. pp. 111–121. 
  • Cheyer, Adam (2005-11-06). "IRIS: Integrate. Relate. Infer. Share.". 1st Workshop on the Semantic Desktop at the International Semantic Web Conference (Galway, Ireland: International Semantic Web Conference). 
  • Cheyer, Adam (June 2006). "A Collaborative Programming Environment for Web Interoperability". 1st Workshop on Semantic Wikis (Budva, Montenegro). 
  • Cheyer, Adam (2003-12-15). "Evolution of the Laws that Deal with the Utilization of Information Networks". 2003 BISC FLINT-CIBI International Joint Workshop on Soft Computing for Internet and BioInformatics (University of California, Berkeley). 

References

  1. ↑ "Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit". Bloomberg. 2012-09-11. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-11/apple-said-to-lose-cheyer-co-creator-of-siri-voice-unit.html. Retrieved 2012-09-11. 
  2. ↑ Stodola, Barbara (2011-11-22). "A Michigan City success story: Former resident Dag Kittlaus, an Elston grad, creates Siri for Apple". The News-Dispatch. http://www.thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2011/11/22/news/local/doc4ec85cc5ac543635689842.txt. Retrieved 2011-12-08. 
  3. ↑ Boran, Marie (2011-11-16). "iRobot". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bang/2011/1116/1224307627049.html. Retrieved 2011-12-08. 
  4. ↑ "About". Adam Cheyer. http://www.adam.cheyer.com/about.html. Retrieved 2013-05-18. 
  5. ↑ Sharon High School (Sharon, Mass ) (1984). The Marsengold. Sharon High School. Sharon High School. https://archive.org/details/marsengold1984shar. 
  6. ↑ "Adam Cheyer". SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. http://www.ai.sri.com/people/cheyer/. Retrieved 2011-12-08. 
  7. ↑ Veneziani, Vince (2007-02-07). "Social Networking For Change(.org)". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2007/02/07/social-networking-for-change/. Retrieved 2011-12-10. 
  8. ↑ "Sentient Team". Sentient Technologies, LLC.. http://www.sentient.ai/team. 
  9. ↑ Gage, Deborah (2014-11-24). "Artificial Intelligence Company Sentient Emerges From Stealth". Wall Street Journal. https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/11/24/artificial-intelligence-company-sentient-emerges-from-stealth. Retrieved 2017-07-04. 
  10. ↑ "Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit". TechPanda. 2012-09-12. http://thetechpanda.com/2012/09/12/apple-said-lose-cheyer-co-creator-siri-voice-unit/. Retrieved 2017-07-04. 
  11. ↑ Smith, Chris (2017-06-08). "The inside story of how Apple's Siri lost the lead". Boy Genius Report. http://bgr.com/2017/06/08/apple-siri-vs-amazon-alexa-how-apple-lost-the-lead/. Retrieved 2017-07-04. 
  12. ↑ Panzarino, Matthew (2016-10-05). "Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple's Siri". https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/05/samsung-acquires-viv-a-next-gen-ai-assistant-built-by-creators-of-apples-siri/. Retrieved 2017-07-04. 

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