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]
Adam Cheyer | |
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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 |
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]