News - Tom Gruber

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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.

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..

Intelligence at the Interface: Semantic Technology and the Consumer Internet Experience - vision of the killer app for semantic technology.

Intelligence at the Interface - see demos of the latest in smart applications.

Definition of ontology (if you care about such things)

Twine, a killer Semantic Web App is announced – the power of SW for everyone