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Jan 30, 2012 - Siri wins Crunchie for "Best Technology Achievement"

Jan 24th, 2012 - Siri Helps Apple to Historic Quarterly Results, becoming World's Most Valuable Company

  • CNN writes: 'Ask Siri how Apple recorded the best quarter in history for a tech company, and her answer should be: "Me."'

    Jan 24th, 2012 - Change.org featured on front page of Washington Post

  • "Change.org has emerged as one of the most influential channels for activism in the country." Change now has 100 fulltime employees, is adding one million new users a month, and is profitable.

    Oct 4th, 2011 - The New Siri Launches as Part of the iPhone 4S

  • Siri is now deeply integrated inside of iOS, and allows you to command and control many iPhone applications, including Calendar, Messaging, Mail, Clocks/Alarms/Timers, Weather, Stocks, Maps, Notes, Phone, FaceTime, Music, Reminders, Find My Friends, Web Search (Google, Wikipedia, etc.), Wolfram Alpha, and Siri itself.

    Jan 1, 2011 - Invited Participant at Renaissance Weekend

  • I was a panelist or presenter for 9 sessions including "AI 3.0 - the future of Artificial Intelligence", "Solving Rubik's Cube" (Camp Renaissance), "Advice to the President: Non-Partisan Policy Recommendations", "The Post-PC, Post-Internet World", "How the Future Works", etc. My family and I had a wonderful time meeting some incredible people!

    • Jul 12, 2010 - Guest Lecturer at Singularity University

  • Presentation: "AI: What's Possible, What's Not, How Do We Move Forward?" (Updated)

    June 2010 - Genetic Finance raises B Round

    Apr 28, 2010 - Apple Acquires Siri

  • Scobleizer: Breaking News -- Siri bought by Apple
  • Big Money: "HP Buys Palm. Apple Buys Siri. Apple Wins."
  • ZDNet: Siri acquired by Apple; iPhone becomes the Virtual Personal Assistant?

    • Apr 13, 2010 - Invited Lecture on "Mobile Internet Marketing" at San Francico State University.

  • Presentation: Internet & Mobile Marketing - An Entrepreneur's Story

    • Apr 22, 2010 - Presentation about Siri at Mobile Voice Conference in session: "Voice Interface on Mobile Phones".

    Apr 13, 2010 - Invited Lecture on "Mobile Internet Marketing" at San Francico State University.

  • Presentation: Internet & Mobile Marketing - An Entrepreneur's Story

    • Mar 16, 2010 - Siri selected as the Most Innovative Web Technology at SXSW

  • Most Innovative Web Technology

    • Mar 11, 2010 - Siri featured on CBS SmartPlanet

  • Video: Siri... your personal iPhone Assistant

    • Feb 25, 2010 - Invited Speaker Presentation at Ontolog Forum by Adam Cheyer and Tom Gruber

  • Presentation Information at Ontolog Website

    • Feb 4, 2010 - Siri's First Public Launch

  • You can now download the first version of Siri for iPhone 3GS on iTunes
  • Read all the Press about Siri's launch

    • Jan 1, 2010 - Top 10 Victories for Change.org in 2009
    Change.org, a website I helped start in 2005, had a great 2009 -- we now have more than 1 million members, and check out some of the real-world change our community helped bring about:

  • Top 10 Victories in 2009 for Change.org

    Nov 4, 2009 - Article in New York Times mentions Siri

  • What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now

    Sep 15, 2009 - Presentation at San Jose Entrepreneur's Society: "My Approach to Entrepreneurship: 5 Steps"

    Jul 22, 2009 - Guest Lecturer at Singularity University

  • Presentation: "The Future of AI: What's Possible, What's Not, How Do We Get There?"

    May 28, 2009 - Siri presents at All Things Digital (D7) Conference

  • Siri On-Stage at D7 Conference

    May 27, 2009 - Siri Lifts Veil on Intelligent Assistant

  • San Jose Mercury News Feature on Siri
  • TechCrunch -- Siri: A Powerful Virtual Assistant For The iPhone
  • Technical Foundations: Interview with Tom Gruber
  • TechCrunch -- Sneak Peak: First Video Demo Of Siri Virtual Assistant

    May 15, 2009 - Change.org Launches "Jobs For Change"
    Jobs for Change seeks to spark a nationwide movement toward careers in the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors.

  • onPhilanthropy: Change Your Life, Change The World

    Feb 24, 2009 - Siri selected by MIT Technology Review as one of Top Ten Technologies to Watch in 2009

  • MIT Technology Review TR10
  • TR10 Report on Siri
  • Video: Siri's Founders describe the intelligent software assistant

    Feb 14, 2009 - The Oscar goes to "The Training of a Jedi" for Special Effects, Male Actor Under 9 Years Old, and Supporting Role by a Lego Character

  • The Training of a Jedi, Part I

    Dec 13, 2008 - Siri and CALO mentioned in New York Times Business Section

  • A Software Secretary That Takes Charge

    Oct 14, 2008 - Stealth-Company.com is Siri, Inc.

  • ReadWriteWeb: Semantic Stealth Startup Siri Raises $8.5 Million
  • TechCrunch: Stealth Semantic Startup Raises $8.5 Million, Won't Tell Us Anything
  • ZDNet: Stealth Company decloaks. as Siri
  • Mashable: Siri Raises $8.5 Million for Personal Artificial Intelligence
  • CNET: Start-up developing new Web interaction paradigm
  • [SIRI.com Website]

    Oct 8, 2008 - Change.org launches version 3.0

  • Newsweek: "Blogging like the World Depended on It"
  • CauseWire: "The Change in Change.org"
  • VentureBeat: "Change.org moves from social media to blogging..."
  • Mashable: "Change.org Launches Social Action Blog Network"

    Jun 3, 2008 - Guest Speaker at UCSD Course on Service Composition for Ultra-Large Scale Systems

  • Course Web Site
  • Presentation: The Future of User Interfaces for Distributed Data and Web Services

    Jun 1, 2008 - Wired News Features Change.org and new Managing Editor, Josh Levy

  • Link: New Blogging Network Editor Hopes To Transform Social Networking To Social Action

    Mar 1, 2008 - Adam joins Stealth-Company.com as founder and VP Engineering

  • Stealth-Company.com Website
  • Jobs at Stealth-Company.com

    Dec 5, 2007 - More Press about CALO:

  • DailyTech: "SRI's CALO Tackles Artificial Intelligence".
  • "It's Time for a Real PDA".
  • SemanticWeb.com: "Military, Universities Team Up on Big CALO Project".

    Nov 30, 2007 - MIT Tech Review: "Software that Learns from Users -- A massive AI project called CALO could revolutionize machine learning"

  • MIT Tech Review Article about CALO.

    Nov 7, 2007 - Come see a CALO Demonstration at SDForum's Showcase of "Intelligence At The Interface

  • Flyer for event. 6:30pm, Cubberly Community Center, Palo Alto CA
  • Information page at SDForum

    July 30, 2007 - Collaborama.com now offers Collaboration Hosting and Services

    July 3, 2007 - Change.org Launches Facebook Edition Enabling Non-Profit Organizations to Harness the Viral Power of 30 Million Participants
    Press Release

    May 21, 2007 - Change.org Version 2.0 Launches -- Adds Political Component
    Review on TechCrunch

    Feb 7, 2007 - Change.org Launches Today!
    Review on TechCrunch

    December 2006 - Invite-only "Go Live" of Change.org (general availability release in early 2007).
    Change.org is a social networking site I've been working on with a few friends. Together, let's change the world for the better!

    June 27, 2006 - New Patent on Scalability Approaches for Agents and Web Service Brokering
    US Patent #7,069,560

    May 4, 2006 - Invited Speaker at the Ontolog Forum: "Ontology Management in CALO, a Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes"
    Presentation WIKI

    April 25, 2006 - New Patent on Delegated Agents applied to Pervasive Computing (maps, mobile, car, office)
    US Patent #7,036,128

    Feb 11, 2006 - IRIS Semantic Desktop Released as Open Source (LGPL)
    Release Announcement

    Dec 09, 2005 - Presenter at Stanford Human Computer Interaction Seminar
    Abstract

    Nov 18, 2005 - Invited Speaker/Panelist at JAMPRO Symposium on Supply Chain Management and CARICOM Trade Integration, Jamaica.
    Presentation Slides [PDF - 8MB]

    Nov 11, 2005 - IRIS Semantic Desktop Announced; Website for Open Source Community Goes Live
    http://www.openiris.org

    Aug 2005 - CALO Passes Exam, SRI Awarded Year 3 of Project
    Jobs Available for software engineers with Java and AI background (keyword: artificial intelligence)

    June 27, 2005 - Clarissa (including OAA Software) becomes First Spoken Dialog System Used in Space.
    Congratulations to the Clarissa Team!
    Article in "New Scientist", Videos and Images

    Mar 21, 2005 - Invited Speaker at AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium Workshop on Persistent Assistants.
    Abstract

    Feb 22, 2005 - Patent awarded Coordination between Distributed Objects and Distributed Agents
    US Patent #6,859,931

    Feb 1, 2005 - Patent awarded on Architecture for Multiagent Coordination
    US Patent #6,851,115

    Dec 25, 2004 - Open Agent Architecture For Astronauts

    OAA, as part of the Clarissa Procedure Execution Assistant, arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) on Christmas day, 2004. The software was launched by Progress 16 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 23, 2004. Clarissa is scheduled to be tested during Expedition 10 by astronaut Leroy Chiao. [Clarissa HomePage]

    Dec 22, 2004 - Presentation: "The Transformation of Information", 4pm, at SRI's AI Center. Abstract: Link

    June 29, 2004 - Patent on Speech-based Mobile Information Appliances
    US Patent #6,757,718

    May-June 2004 - Visiting Researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

    June 11, 2004 - Presentation: "ACTIVE: An Enhanced Web Services Platform for the Impaired",
      2pm, at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
    Abstract

    May 2004 - Patent on Spoken Input with Multimodal Error Feedback
    US Patent #6,742,021

    May-June 2004 - Visiting Researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

    May 2004 - Patent on Spoken Input with Multimodal Error Feedback
    US Patent #6,742,021

    April 2004 - Dejima Acquired by Sybase, iAnywhere division
    Press Release

    February 2004 - Patent on Agent-based Unified Messaging
    US Patent #6,691,151

    July 2003 - Invited Speaker at Bay Area CTO Forum
    Driving Value through Accelerated Access

    May 2003 - Cheyer joins SRI as Chief Architect of CALO/PAL Initiative
    DARPA Awards Contracts For Pioneering R&D In Cognitive Systems

    February 20, 2003 - Dejima Deploys SMS Mobile Applications for France Telecom (Orange)
    [Press Release]

    February 2003 - Another Speech Patent Awarded
    US Patent #6,523,061

    January 2003 - Co-Inventor for Awarded Patent on Speech-Based Navigation of Online Information.
    US Patent #6,513,063

    December 2002 - Dejima's Product Licensed By Salesforce.com, Branded As "Salesforce.com Wireless Edition"
    InfoWorld Product Review

    August 2002 - Cheyer Added to Silicon Valley World Internet Center's Technology Council

    July 2002 - Verticalnet Strategic Sourcing Suite Ranked #1 by AMR Research
    [Press Release]

    June 2002 - Invited Presentation: "A Practical Solution to the Challenges of Mobile Access"
    [Description]

    April 2002 - Dejima Releases Dejima Direct SFA 1.0, Providing Email and Wireless Web Access to Salesforce Automation Data
    [Press Release]

    Jan 2002 - Adam Cheyer Accepts Position as VP of Engineering at Dejima, Inc.
    [Press Release]

    Nov 2001 - Cheyer Keynote Speaker at SVWIC's Think-Tank Session on Artificial Intelligence for Supply Chain Management
    [Photo]

    Oct 2001 - Paper Published in Book on Cooperative Multimodal Communication

    May 2001 - Adam Cheyer Promoted to Verticalnet's VP of Engineering, Enterprise Products

    Nov 1999 - Adam Cheyer to Lead Advanced Products and Strategy Group at Verticalnet

    May 1999 - Cheyer's SRI Research Featured in Upside Magazine [Story]

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