Adam Cheyer

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Adam Cheyer
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Adam Cheyer, Co-Founder of Siri
Born1966-1967
Nationality American
Alma mater Sharon High School
Brandeis University
UCLA
Known for Siri, CALO
Scientific career
Fields Artificial intelligence
Institutions Apple, Inc.
Siri
SRI International
Change.org
Genetic Finance/Sentient Technologies

Adam Cheyer (born c. 1966) is a co-founder of Siri Inc. and formerly a director of engineering in the iPhone group at Apple. [1] [2] [3]

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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. [4] [5]

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. [6] Cheyer was also a member of the founding team at Change.org [7] and a founder of Sentient Technologies (formerly Genetic Finance). [8] [9]

Adam left the Siri team in 2012 [10] and founded Viv Labs, which was acquired by Samsung in 2016. [11] [12]

After leaving Samsung, Adam Cheyer co-founded GamePlanner.AI with Siamak Hodjat, which was acquired by Airbnb in late 2023. [13] As of May 2024, Adam is the VP of AI Experience at Airbnb.

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit". Bloomberg . 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
  2. ↑ Stodola, Barbara (2011-11-22). "A Michigan City success story: Former resident Dag Kittlaus, an Elston grad, creates Siri for Apple". The News-Dispatch . Retrieved 2011-12-08.
  3. ↑ Boran, Marie (2011-11-16). "iRobot". The Irish Times . Retrieved 2011-12-08.
  4. ↑ "About". Adam Cheyer. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  5. ↑ Sharon High School (Sharon, Mass ) (1984). The Marsengold. Sharon High School. Sharon High School.
  6. ↑ "Adam Cheyer". SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center . Retrieved 2011-12-08.
  7. ↑ Veneziani, Vince (2007-02-07). "Social Networking For Change(.org)". TechCrunch . Retrieved 2011-12-10.
  8. ↑ "Sentient Team". Sentient Technologies, LLC.
  9. ↑ Gage, Deborah (2014-11-24). "Artificial Intelligence Company Sentient Emerges From Stealth". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  10. ↑ "Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit". TechPanda. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  11. ↑ Smith, Chris (2017-06-08). "The inside story of how Apple's Siri lost the lead". Boy Genius Report . Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  12. ↑ Panzarino, Matthew (2016-10-05). "Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple's Siri" . Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  13. ↑ "Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company". TechCrunch. 2023-11-17. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
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