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Mindstrong Story

Patient, Know Thyself: AI-powered Digital Brain Biomarkers Millions of people suffer from mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, psychosis, PTSD, and depression. Even though early intervention can save lives and help restore normal cognitive function, mental health care professionals are not very good at predicting when a patient may be at risk for one…

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Cognixion Story

Augmenting Human Communication with Cutting-Edge Technology Millions of people with neurological conditions, such as cerebral palsy or ALS, are physically prevented from producing natural human speech. They are intelligent and socially aware, and want to fully participate in a social world, but largely depend on caregivers to interpret grunts and or gestures in response to…

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Migraine Virologic story

Tom Gruber Advisor Migraine.ai and Virologic Story

A Selfie a Day Keeps the Doctor (a Phone Call) Away A healthcare revolution was already happening before the pandemic. The old way was the occasional visit to the doctor’s office or hospital, with expensive point measurement, and treatment responses optimized for populations. The new way is continuous measurement of many channels of data about…

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Lifescore Music – AI powered adaptive music on demand

Music that Adapts to the Journeys of Your Life For most of history, humans have experienced music as live, ephemeral, and in the moment, joining composition and performance in the improvisational dynamic between musician and audience. Today, the dominant experience of music is something else: static songs that are written, recorded, packaged, and streamed to…

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Navigating the Startup Ecosystem

In 2010 Siri was purchased by Apple and remains central to the user experience of all Apple products. Today, Siri is used more than a billion time a day in over 30 countries around the world. But in late 2007 when Tom and his co-founders launched their fledgling startup, none of this was guaranteed. Why…

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Big Think Small Screen: How Semantic Computing in the Cloud Will Revolutionize the Consumer Experience on the Phone

A week before Siri was released to the Apple app store, Tom gave a keynote address at the Web 3.0 conference, which was about intelligent applications on the web. In this forward-looking talk, he explains why intelligent apps like Siri were about to burst on the scene. Using the metaphor of the “perfect storm”, he…

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Siri: A Virtual Personal Assistant (2009)

In 2009 — a year before Siri was launched — Tom introduced Siri to a technical audience, laying out the key problems to be solved and the technologies involved. The talk includes an early demo of the working system, which had not yet been released to the public. A classic!

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A Guiding Philosophy for Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurs and Investors

In this talk, Tom reviews key projects in his career and offers the principals on which they were chosen and factors that led to success. He describes a key insight he learned from inventor Doug Engelbart, the formulation of a guiding philosophy, which can help entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors make decisions in their careers.

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Guiding Principles For a Career

May 22, 2022

Tom Gruber, Innovations, Knowledge Acquisition: Machines Learning from Humans

Tom talks about some of the mentors that guided his philosophy on Humanistic AI. Ideas like focusing on human impact over metrics and the principles that shaped the creation of Siri.

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The Intraspect Knowledge Management Solution: Technical Overview

Thomas Gruber (1998). The Intraspect Knowledge Management Solution: Technical Overview.

Our first technical whitepaper, describing the Intraspect vision and how it was implemented.

Original abstract: The Intraspect Knowledge Management System provides a collaborative environment for knowledge work where people search for, collect, organize, share and collaborate around information. As they work in this environment, their work is captured and maintained as a group memory, making it available for knowledge sharing and reuse. Intraspect’s group memory contains only the information that has been put to use, and it captures the context of its use — who collected it, when it was used, for what task, how it was combined with other information, and what people in the organization said about it. The Intraspect solution is a comprehensive integration of intranet technologies for creating, working in and harvesting a group memory: distributed object storage, full text search, desktop integration, web publishing, email processing and distribution, agent-based monitoring, and brokering to other intranet services. Information in the Intraspect repository includes documents on desktops and file systems, static and dynamic web pages on remote servers, email from any Internet-compatible client or server, and any other information source served by the Internet standards HTTP or SMTP.

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