4 posts and columns on Dag Kittlaus

Siri Co-Founder Kittlaus Departs From Apple

in Mobile on October 23, 2011 at 11:17 pm PT

Siri, is it true that one of your creators left the building at Apple? Yes, sigh, Dag.
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Group Looks to Team Tech Executives With Nonprofits

in News on March 30, 2011 at 2:47 pm PT

Could the Silicon Valley management style help charitable organizations? An organization called Palindrome Advisors thinks so, and it launched a program Wednesday that aims to match executives in technology and other industries with nonprofits that need their help.

D7 Video Highlights: CEO Dag Kittlaus of Siri

in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 12:10 pm PT

Siri is an alternative to search that converses with the user, processing requests, answering questions and learning from each interaction like a cross between semantic search and artificial intelligence. CEO Dag Kittlaus demonstrates the app to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher on Day 3 of D7. Kara’s verdict? “I like.”

D7 Tech Demo: Siri

in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Many would-be augurs have been trying to pinpoint the moment the artificial intelligence overlord known as Skynet gets its start: Some may one day point to the launch of Siri. Siri is a virtual personal assistant, for your iPhone or computer, with a pedigree: It originated at the Stanford Research Institute and was spun out as an AI project financed by DARPA. Now, as an alternative to search, Siri is supposed to carry out tasks like finding your next outgoing flight or ordering a pizza by crawling the Web and conversing with the user, processing requests, responding and learning from the interaction. It will do this via a combination of technologies, including speech recognition, natural language processing and semantic Web search.
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