Siri
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I am Vice President of Ventures at SRI, and am responsible for creating SRI's highest value venture and license opportunities. I helped found SRI's venture process, including venture and license incubation, seed funding, the Entrepreneur-In-Residence program, and Venture Capital engagement.
I was co-founder and board member of Siri, which was spun out from SRI in January 2008, and acquired by Apple in April, 2010. Siri has now been incorporated into the Apple iPhone 4S.
I chair SRI's Commercialization Board and the nVention Board, a partnership with the venture capital community that develops early-stage investment opportunities. Concurrently, I am a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, conducting research on regions of innovation.
I helped found approximately 30 ventures, published approximately 50 papers, and hold three patents with several pending. My particular focus is on natural language, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. (See
http://nyti.ms/90nHFm)
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