Tom Gruber http://tomgruber.org Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:19:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Siri Launched by Apple http://tomgruber.org/siri-launched-part-apple-ios-5 http://tomgruber.org/siri-launched-part-apple-ios-5#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:54:58 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/?p=1254 Apple announced a newly revamped Siri as part of its iOS 5 release on the new iPhone 4S models. Tom led the design of the original Siri and helped bring it to life at Apple.

See more on the Apple Siri page.


From Apple.com

Talk to Siri as you would to a person. Say something like “Tell my wife I’m running late.” “Remind me to call the vet.” “Any good burger joints around here?” And Siri answers you. It does what you say and finds the information you need. And then it hits you.

]]> http://tomgruber.org/siri-launched-part-apple-ios-5/feed 0 Apple Buys Siri http://tomgruber.org/applebuyssiri http://tomgruber.org/applebuyssiri#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:08:40 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=1034 Apple buys Siri

According to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and others, Apple acquired the startup Siri. No other details are available from either company.

April 28th, 2010 | New York Times

Apple Buys a Start-Up for Its Voice Technology

For example, Siri users can speak commands like “find a table for two at 9 tonight” or “send a taxi to my house”; using GPS and speech-recognition technology, the application translates the commands and uses search algorithms to find answers.

April 28th, 2010 | Mashable

What Apple’s Acquisition of Siri Means for the Future of Mobile Search

What Siri does is quite brilliant. Because it uses natural voice search for its queries, it’s easier for users to specify what they want to happen and then to immediately take action

April 28th, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

Apple Moves Deeper Into Voice-Activated Search With Siri Buy

Siri’s free app is connected to a whole ecosystem of Web services and programming interfaces, and has the ability to activate other applications that reside on a smartphone

]]> http://tomgruber.org/applebuyssiri/feed 1 Siri goes live! http://tomgruber.org/siri-launch http://tomgruber.org/siri-launch#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:36 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=568 The Siri app for iPhone went live today on the iTunes store. See the demo video!

The press was pretty good. Robert Scoble said “If you miss Siri you will miss the future of the web”. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Techcrunch, and many others praised the new way of using your phone.

Users were curious, and liked what they found. The app went to the top of its category in the iTunes store in less than 48 hours.

Demo Video

Press

Scobleizer

February 8th, 2010 | Scobleizer

Why if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web

Siri is the most useful thing I’ve seen so far this year.

February 5th, 2010 | The Wall Street Journal

Siri Inc. Launches ‘Do Engine’ Application For iPhone

Siri Inc., whose technology was born out of the largest artificial-intelligence project ever launched, has released an application for the iPhone that company executives say will take voice-activated search to a new level.

USA Today

February 5th, 2010 | USA TODAY

Review: Siri personal assistant for iPhone

Thanks to this terrific new app, my iPhone just got a little bit smarter and a lot more helpful….Best of all, it’s free.

Fast Company

February 5th, 2010 | Fast Company

Meet Siri: A Virtual Personal Assistant That Actually Works, Deciphers Drunken Slur

As you can see, using Siri is a lot like talking to a really, really well-informed friend….It understands plain English commands, which can be spoken or typed (e.g., “Get me tickets to that Matt Damon movie”). It remembers personal details, so you never have to tell it more than once where, for example, “my office,” and “my house” are.

ABC15

February 5th, 2010 | ABC15

How a new iPhone app does what you ask it to, literally

Do you ever wish you could just ask your iPhone to do things for you instead of using all those applications? Why can’t we just talk to our phones instead of pressing all those virtual keys? Well now, there’s an app for that.

GIGAOM

February 5th, 2010 | GigaOM

Siri: Make Artificial Intelligence Your Slave

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said Arthur C. Clarke. And that’s what Siri, a new virtual personal assistant that’s finally going live in the App Store after some sneak peeks last year, is going for.

TechCrunch

February 5th, 2010 | TechCrunch

Siri’s IPhone App Puts A Personal Assistant In Your Pocket

Siri combines an impressive array of technologies and brings them together on the iPhone. These include natural language processing and semantic analysis.

The New York Times

February 5th, 2010 | New York Times

A Personal Assistant on Your iPhone

This is intended for everyone to help in their menial tasks,” Mr. Kittlaus said, “not just for someone in a corner office.”

VentureBeat

February 5th, 2010 | Venturebeat

Siri launches an iPhone personal assistant that actually works

Siri translates the request into “inexpensive Italian restaurants with open tables for 2 tomorrow at 7:00pm,” then returns a list of nearby restaurants in the appropriate price range from reservation service OpenTable.

ZDNet

February 5th, 2010 | ZDNet

Siri offers virtual assistance, with a little help from your iPhone

Siri guides the user along a path, making query formulation iterative and relatively painless, and ensuring that the application gets the information it needs.

Louis Gray

February 5th, 2010 | Louis Gray

Siri Brings Artificial Intelligence to the iPhone

For decades, many have dreamed of having a virtual assistant to answer our questions and do our bidding.

ReadWriteWeb

February 5th, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb

Siri: Your Personal Assistant for the Mobile Web

Imagine if you could just talk to you phone and tell it to call you a taxi, reserve a table at your favorite restaurant or tell you what the weather in New York City will be like tomorrow. If you have an iPhone, you will be able to start doing that tonight.

Mashable

February 5th, 2010 | Mashable

Siri Assistant Turns Your iPhone into a Personal Assistant

Siri helps people get things done by combining intelligent voice recognition with hooks into tons of different web services, making it easy for people to use their mobile devices to get things done.

]]> http://tomgruber.org/siri-launch/feed 0 Big Think. Small Screen. http://tomgruber.org/big-think-small-screen http://tomgruber.org/big-think-small-screen#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:09:46 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=943 Big Think. Small Screen. How Semantic computing in the cloud will revolutionize the consumer experience on the phone

Tom gave a keynote at the Web 3.0 conference about why semantic computing such as virtual assistants is possible today.

It is called Big Think Small Screen: How Semantic computing in the cloud will revolutionize the consumer experience on the phone.

Download the slides or view the video below.


]]> http://tomgruber.org/big-think-small-screen/feed 0 Siri: A Virtual Personal Assistant http://tomgruber.org/siri-a-virtual-personal-assistant http://tomgruber.org/siri-a-virtual-personal-assistant#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:13:56 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=954 Siri: A Virtual Personal Assistant – A Keynote presentation by Tom Gruber at the Semantic Technologies conference. 

Introduces Siri and explains the technologies and design principles.

Download the slides.


The Game Changer: Siri, a Virtual Personal Assistant from Semantic Web on Vimeo.

]]> http://tomgruber.org/siri-a-virtual-personal-assistant/feed 0 Siri Announced http://tomgruber.org/siri-announced http://tomgruber.org/siri-announced#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:20:54 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=960 Siri announced – Siri is a new interaction paradigm for the consumer Internet, spawned from the largest AI program in history.

Tom Gruber is Siri co-founder, CTO, and leads the user experience design team.

Read more about Siri, the virtual personal assistant..

]]> http://tomgruber.org/siri-announced/feed 0 Intelligence at the Interface: Semantic Technology and the Consumer Internet Experience http://tomgruber.org/intelligence-at-the-interface-semantic-technology-and-the-consumer-internet-experience http://tomgruber.org/intelligence-at-the-interface-semantic-technology-and-the-consumer-internet-experience#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 17:27:18 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=965 Intelligence at the Interface: Semantic Technology and the Consumer Internet Experience - vision of the killer app for semantic technology.

]]> http://tomgruber.org/intelligence-at-the-interface-semantic-technology-and-the-consumer-internet-experience/feed 0 Intelligence at the Interface http://tomgruber.org/intelligence-at-the-interface http://tomgruber.org/intelligence-at-the-interface#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:30:59 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=970 Intelligence at the Interface - see demos of the latest in smart applications.

]]> http://tomgruber.org/intelligence-at-the-interface/feed 0 Definition of Ontology http://tomgruber.org/definition-of-ontology http://tomgruber.org/definition-of-ontology#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:56:17 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=981 Definition of ontology (if you care about such things)

]]> http://tomgruber.org/definition-of-ontology/feed 0 Twine, a Killer Semantic Web App http://tomgruber.org/twine-a-killer-semantic-web-app http://tomgruber.org/twine-a-killer-semantic-web-app#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:46:06 +0000 Admin http://tomgruber.org/new/?p=976 Twine, a killer Semantic Web App is announced – the power of SW for everyone

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