Adam Cheyer
{{Short description|Co-founder of Siri Inc.}}
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| fields = Artificial intelligence
| workplaces = Apple, Inc.
Siri
SRI International
Change.org
Genetic Finance/Sentient Technologies
| alma_mater = Sharon High School
Brandeis University
UCLA
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Adam Cheyer (born c. 1966) is a co-founder of Siri Inc. and formerly a director of engineering in the iPhone group at Apple.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-11/apple-said-to-lose-cheyer-co-creator-of-siri-voice-unit.html|title=Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit|work=Bloomberg|date=2012-09-11|accessdate=2012-09-11}}{{cite news|url=http://www.thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2011/11/22/news/local/doc4ec85cc5ac543635689842.txt|title=A Michigan City success story: Former resident Dag Kittlaus, an Elston grad, creates Siri for Apple|first=Barbara|last=Stodola|work=The News-Dispatch|date=2011-11-22|accessdate=2011-12-08}}{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bang/2011/1116/1224307627049.html|title=iRobot|first=Marie|last=Boran|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=2011-11-16|accessdate=2011-12-08}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.adam.cheyer.com/about.html|title=About|publisher=Adam Cheyer|accessdate=2013-05-18}}{{Cite book|last=Sharon High School (Sharon|first=Mass )|url=https://archive.org/details/marsengold1984shar|title=The Marsengold|date=1984|publisher=Sharon High School|others=Sharon High School}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ai.sri.com/people/cheyer/|title=Adam Cheyer|publisher=SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center|accessdate=2011-12-08}} Cheyer was also a member of the founding team at Change.org{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/02/07/social-networking-for-change/|title=Social Networking For Change(.org)|first=Vince|last=Veneziani|publisher=TechCrunch|date=2007-02-07|accessdate=2011-12-10}} and a founder of Sentient Technologies (formerly Genetic Finance).{{cite web |url=http://www.sentient.ai/team|title=Sentient Team|publisher=Sentient Technologies, LLC.}}{{cite news|first=Deborah|last=Gage|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/11/24/artificial-intelligence-company-sentient-emerges-from-stealth |title=Artificial Intelligence Company Sentient Emerges From Stealth|publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=2014-11-24|accessdate=2017-07-04}}
Adam left the Siri team in 2012{{cite web|url=http://thetechpanda.com/2012/09/12/apple-said-lose-cheyer-co-creator-siri-voice-unit/|title=Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit|publisher=TechPanda|date=2012-09-12|accessdate=2017-07-04}} and founded Viv Labs, which was acquired by Samsung in 2016.{{cite news|first=Chris|last=Smith|url=http://bgr.com/2017/06/08/apple-siri-vs-amazon-alexa-how-apple-lost-the-lead/|title=The inside story of how Apple's Siri lost the lead|publisher=Boy Genius Report|date=2017-06-08|accessdate=2017-07-04}}{{cite news|first=Matthew|last=Panzarino| url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/05/samsung-acquires-viv-a-next-gen-ai-assistant-built-by-creators-of-apples-siri/| title=Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple's Siri|date=2016-10-05|accessdate=2017-07-04}}
After leaving Samsung, Adam Cheyer co-founded GamePlanner.AI with Siamak Hodjat, which was acquired by Airbnb in late 2023.{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/who-knows-what-gameplanner-does-but-airbnb-just-bought-the-company/|title=Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company|publisher=TechCrunch|date=2023-11-17|accessdate=2023-11-18}} As of May 2024, Adam is the VP of AI Experience at Airbnb.
Selected publications
- {{cite journal|title=The Open Agent Architecture: A framework for building distributed software systems|journal=Applied Artificial Intelligence|volume=13|number=1–2|date=January 1999|author=Cheyer, Adam|author2=Martin, David|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book|chapter=Multimodal Maps: An Agent-based Approach|title=Multimodal Human-Computer Communication, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1374|editor=Bunt|editor2=Beun|editor3=Borghuis|publisher=Springer|first=Adam|last=Cheyer|pages=111–121|year=1998}}
- {{cite journal|title=IRIS: Integrate. Relate. Infer. Share.|journal=1st Workshop on the Semantic Desktop at the International Semantic Web Conference|first=Adam|last=Cheyer|publisher=International Semantic Web Conference|location=Galway, Ireland|date=2005-11-06}}
- {{cite journal|title=A Collaborative Programming Environment for Web Interoperability|journal=1st Workshop on Semantic Wikis|first=Adam|last=Cheyer|date=June 2006|location=Budva, Montenegro}}
- {{cite journal|title=Evolution of the Laws that Deal with the Utilization of Information Networks|journal=2003 BISC FLINT-CIBI International Joint Workshop on Soft Computing for Internet and BioInformatics|first=Adam|last=Cheyer|date=2003-12-15|location=University of California, Berkeley}}
References
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External links
- [http://adam.cheyer.com/ Official website]
- [https://www.bigspeak.com/speakers/adam-cheyer Adam Cheyer Keynote Speaker Bio Page]
- [https://patents.google.com/patent/US8903716 A patent in speech assistance] Personalized vocabulary for digital assistant, published Dec 2, 2014 (Google Patents website)
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