Adam Cheyer | |
|---|---|
 Adam Cheyer, Co-Founder of Siri | |
| Born | 1966-1967 |
| 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]
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]
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]
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