Adam Cheyer
Adam Cheyer is co-founder and VP Engineering of Viv Labs, a startup whose goal is to simplify the world by providing an intelligent interface to everything.
Previously, Adam was co-founder and VP Engineering at Siri, Inc.
When Siri was acquired by Apple in 2010, he became a Director of Engineering in the iPhone/iOS group. As a startup, Siri won the Innovative Web Technologies award at SXSW, and was chosen a Top Ten Emerging Technology by MIT’s Technology Review; Apple’s version of Siri was presented “Best Technical Achievement” at the 2011 Crunchies Awards, and is now available on hundreds of millions of devices.
Adam is also a Founding Member and Advisor to Change.org (150M people taking action, victories every day), and a co-founder of Sentient.ai (solving the world’s hardest problems through massively-scaled machine learning). As a researcher, Adam authored 60 publications and 25 issued patents. At SRI International, he was Chief Architect of CALO, one of DARPA’s largest AI and machine learning projects. Adam graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University and received the “Outstanding Masters Student” from UCLA’s School of Engineering.
Previously, Adam was co-founder and VP Engineering at Siri, Inc.
When Siri was acquired by Apple in 2010, he became a Director of Engineering in the iPhone/iOS group. As a startup, Siri won the Innovative Web Technologies award at SXSW, and was chosen a Top Ten Emerging Technology by MIT’s Technology Review; Apple’s version of Siri was presented “Best Technical Achievement” at the 2011 Crunchies Awards, and is now available on hundreds of millions of devices.
Adam is also a Founding Member and Advisor to Change.org (150M people taking action, victories every day), and a co-founder of Sentient.ai (solving the world’s hardest problems through massively-scaled machine learning). As a researcher, Adam authored 60 publications and 25 issued patents. At SRI International, he was Chief Architect of CALO, one of DARPA’s largest AI and machine learning projects. Adam graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University and received the “Outstanding Masters Student” from UCLA’s School of Engineering.
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power and web connectivity. To leverage this rich environment
and to better assist users, a new type of intelligent
assistant software is required. Building intelligent assistants
is a difficult task that requires expertise in many AI
and engineering related fields. We believe that providing a
unified tool and a set of associated methodologies to create
end-to-end intelligent software will bring many benefits
to this area of research. Our solution, the Active framework,
introduces the original concept of Active Ontologies
to model and implement intelligent applications in a single
and coherent software environment. As an example, this
paper illustrates how Active has been used to create an intelligent
assistant to help mobile users retrieve online information
using a multimodal dialog approach.
becoming an obstacle between the people and their task. We are striving to achieve this kind of invisible support by developing systems that provide interaction via modalities other than keyboard and mouse. We present two prototype systems that we have developed that use speech and pen based interaction. One system—OfficeMATE—
provides portable connections to embedded data to help a visitor interact more successfully in a new environment. The other system—EMCE—provides meeting support that includes both the more obvious collaborative support within a meeting as well as external support to link to the user’s stationary desktop machine. OfficeMATE can also act within the EMCE environment as a more personalised access to the meeting. We feel that OfficeMATE and EMCE are both examples of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) systems that encourage a seamless transition between desktop and meeting.