“The engineer who oversaw development of Apple’s Siri technology is now at Samsung building an online service for linking together the ‘Internet of things,'” James Niccolai reports for IDG News Service.
“Luc Julia, a vice president at Samsung’s innovation lab in Menlo Park, California, demonstrated the project, called SAMI, or the Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions, at a conference north of San Francisco on Friday,” Niccolai reports. “Still in its early stages, SAMI aims to be a platform that can collect data from any connected device, including wearable computers like the Fitbit, and make that data available for consumption by other devices.”
“To demonstrate the service, Julia showed how SAMI might be used to build a personal health service,” Niccolai reports. “In Siri-like fashion, he also asked the service, ‘SAMI, how am I doing?’ The app told him he had reached his exercise goal for the day. The idea is that it could do more sophisticated analysis, such as telling him when he needs to train harder or take a break.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Luc Julia, who replaced Dag Kittlaus, Siri’s co-founder and chief executive, as Apple’s head of Siri, lasted just 10 months at Apple before exiting in 2012. How much “development of Siri” did he really oversee?
“SAMI, why couldn’t I cut it at Apple? And, SAMI, why does everyone hate Benedict Arnold?”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Len W.” for the heads up.]
Pretty cool project, now apple has to push their Siri to work better and be more usable. This functionality is pretty smart idea. I hope apple can improve on this idea and make a better service that can deliver these services. Apples not as much an innovator as much as it’s been a product and concept improvement and design company. So I have confidence Apple will trump this SAMI project with hardware and software that works as good or better. It won’t be first to deliver as usual, but it will be the Apple version that will be successful. Apples adoption rates seem to eclipse samsungs technologies no matter how good samsungs efforts are, they are just not Apple and that drives Samsung crazy. Competition is great for product development, I’m glad samsungs pushing it, it gives Apple something to concern themselves.
No concern of Apple when it comes to Samdung. That is an absolute. Once again, Apple innovates, samdung steals and copies. There is no competition.
I like Siri…I wonder when we will see Siri intelligence to be near like the upcoming movie SHE.
Another movie of ‘She’, as in H. Rider Haggard? Or is this another ‘SHE’?
It’s another She altogether.
Sheesh!
Check out iTunes trailers and see the upcoming movie.
Sammie
A slang term, common but not exclusive to the UK (particularly in an around London) meaning “To take a dump”.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sammie
No doubt.
So he only lasted 10 months, or he only needed to stay 10 months to get access to all of Apple’s research and Apple’s roadmap in this area? Some apples have worms, but Apple has moles!
I would hope that Apple is more heavily silo-ed than that. He was in charge of Siri, but truthfully was not talented enough to develop its core technologies out enough. Apple still doesn’t have it’s own voice recognition tech, and the latency on the Siri’s decision parsing was horrible on Apple’s end. They probably have multiple crack teams trying to fix bugs, create new features and speed things up. It’s a massive job though because Apple’s stuff is all in Java for the semantic parsing. Which is fine until they start using it to do basic string parsing and tokenization (if they are doing it at all). Let’s hope there are some go-getters waiting in the wings.
a real piece of Schmidt.
The fatwa has been issued. Fanbois everywhere sharpen their blades muttering words of righteous wrath.
How very clever. Comparing passionate fans of Apple to Islamic extremists. You are a satirist in the tradition of Zune Tang and Jimmy Choo. Please, give us more. Hey, maybe you can even get your own talk show, like Leno, Fallon, or maybe even O’Reilly.
James, there are no “Islamic extremists.”
They all read from the same book.
That’s like saying there aren’t Christian extremists.
The US Congress, Senate, and President all read from the same Constitution, and look what happened recently. Greeks read from the same book that Jews did and look what happened.
No non-compete clause?
First thing I thought of…. How are they getting away with this for at least a year (standard period…)?
And how would Apple enforce such a clause? These clauses are practically meaningless to one with no integrity. I guess Luc will never submit his CV to Apple, but that bridge has already burned right?
Stop spreading the Apple FUD. You know (and everyone in the Galaxy knows) that Samsung’s garbage, plastic phones for Hee Haw Hicks that don’t know any better, are objectively garbage. I bet you are one of the Hee Haw demograms, if not a Samsung Shill.
is “hee haw” the new, current pop culture meme?
It is also a term used by smug, self righteous hipsters and liberals use to askew people in the south, a racist term they throw about to make themselves feel superior to at least someone.
They would never use a similar term to describe blacks, asians or any other ethnic group.
oh, okay, thanks for the clarification.
botvinnik, I think the term was invented by MDN to capture the characteristics of certain commodity consumers — gullible, penny-pinching, undiscerning Android customers, for the most part.
Probably appropriated from the eponymous early seventies TV show loaded with comedy sketches ridiculing the stupidity of unsophisticated bumpkins.
thanks..oh, reason I asked is I’ve seen it in several blogs online…since I didn’t know, I must be one of those in the hee haw demographics.
Stop being racist against southern people!
Sami?… sounds like a deli meat, like Salami. Doesn’t matter, Apple will eat Samsung’s lunch!
Well, at least he was already gone. Hopefully, Apple will spend more time and resources to lfurther eapfrog Google and Samsung.
“To further leapfrog Google and Samsung.”
(Going back to bed..)
“Benedict Arnold”? Seriously?
He got a job offer, and he’s perfectly free to take it. It’s just business. Get over yourselves.
-jcr
SAMI spel So Again More Innovating. Samsung much good best working. You come work to. Get much dawahs, we give you. Many dawahs, come get we give you joe. Aples no good. We inovating you make Aples better. We invent siri. Come for you dawahs.
Eddy cue and his software teams could do that in their lunch break.
Sami? THAT SHIT IS RACIST MAN. IT’S RACIST!
uh, that’s Sambo.
Everything is racist to them.
Everything.
He saw the future and Apple wasn’t in it. He probably got fed up waiting for Apple to use its reserve cash to dominate the mobile industry. He knows that Samsung is planning to take everything away from Apple and that might have appealed to him.
Why on earth would you leave your phone number?
666 is Satan’s area code if you need to get in contact with him (999 in Australia.)
No. 616 is the REAL number of the Devil. And yes, it is also a real area code, and it serves the Grand Rapids, MI area.
Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions? Sounds more like Cybernetic Lifeform Node to me.
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