Siri Acquisition Brings Apple Much Closer to the 'Knowledge Navigator' Concept
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http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/28/...igator-concept)
Here's an interesting thing that just went down. Apple bought Siri, the company that has been working on a "personal assistant" for the iPhone. The reasoning, is apparantly Apple is now at work on something they first envisioned 20 years ago:
There's a current video from one of the Siri guys in the link I posted above, but here's the gist of it:
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Gruber demos Siri and how it can accomplish tasks using a conversational interface and apply context to provide useful and personalized interactions. He also walks through what's possible today and how close we are getting. Given Apple's acquisition of the company (and presumably Tom Gruber), the talk is of particular relevance to Apple's future plans.
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