Paul Miller

Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes [...]

I spoke with Will Hunsinger, CEO of Evri, yesterday and the result has just been released as a podcast.
Backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Seattle-based Evri is using semantic technologies to
“change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web.”
Via the site at evri.com, users are able to explore news-like topics of interest. [...]

 

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I’ve written and spoken before about the need to build some serious bridges between the semantic technology/ Semantic Web community and the multitudinous enterprises that rely for their livelihood upon the timely and appropriate exploitation of data.
The annual Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose plays an important role here, with ever-more ‘proper’ business people joining [...]