Didier Guzzoni (born 1970 in Geneva) is a Swiss computer scientist and senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team. He was a founding member and chief scientist at the start-up company Siri Inc. that was later acquired be Apple Inc.[1]
PhD Didier René Guzzoni | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
| Citizenship | Swiss |
| Occupation | Senior Software Engineer |
| Known for | Artificial intelligence Intelligent assistants Siri |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Electrical engineering Computer science |
| Alma mater | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
| Thesis | Active: a unified platform for building intelligent applications (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Baur |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Institutions | Apple Inc. |
| Website | http://www.apple.com |
Career
editGuzzoni studied electrical engineering at the Geneva State Engineering School, followed by studies in computer science at EPFL, where obtained a master's degree in 1996. He then worked with Charles Baur on medical robotics application at EPFL's Virtual Reality and Active Interface group.[2] In 1997, he moved to Silicon Valley to join the SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center to work with Luc Julia and Adam Cheyer at on artificial intelligence and robotics.[3][4][5] Then he was involved in multiple start-ups ranging from mobile robotics to AI-powered B2B platforms, where he collaborated among others with Rajiv Gupta and Shamik Sharma.
In 2004, he returned to EPFL to join Charles Baur's laboratory as a PhD student. His research aimed at facilitating the access on complex artificial intelligence techniques by software developers.[6]
After his graduation in 2007, together with Tom Gruber and Dag Kittlaus he cofounded and became chief scientist Siri Inc., a start-up company developing a mobile intelligent assistant. The company was acquired in 2010 by Apple Inc., and its technology has been incorporated with most Apple products since 2011. He is a senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team.[7][8][9][10]
Selected works
editJournal papers
- Baur Charles; Guzzoni Didier; Georg Olivier (1998). "Virgy: A Virtual Reality and Force Feedback Based Endoscopic Surgery Simulator". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 50 (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality): 110–6. doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-894-6-110. PMID 10180525.
- Guzzoni, Didier; Adam Cheyer; Luc Julia; Kurt Konolige (1997). "Many Robots Make Short Work: Report of the SRI International Mobile Robot Team". AI Magazine. 18. doi:10.1609/aimag.v18i1.1274.
- Guzzoni, Didier; et al. (1998). "Robots in a Distributed Agent System." Cognitive Robotics" (PDF). Cognitive Robotics-Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium: 61–67.
Thesis
- Guzzoni, Didier (2007). "Active: A unified platform for building intelligent applications". doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-3990.
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Patent
- US 8677377, Cheyer, Adam & Guzzoni, Didier, "Method and apparatus for building an intelligent automated assistant", published 2014-03-18, assigned to Apple Inc.
References
edit- ^ "Didier Guzzoni | BILANZ". Handelszeitung (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ Baur, C.; Guzzoni, D.; Georg, O. (1998). "VIRGY: a virtual reality and force feedback based endoscopic surgery simulator". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 50: 110–116. ISSN 0926-9630. PMID 10180525.
- ^ "Didier René Guzzoni". www.ai.sri.com. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ Guzzoni, Didier; Cheyer, Adam; Julia, Luc; Konolige, Kurt (1997-03-15). "Many Robots Make Short Work: Report of the SRI International Mobile Robot Team". AI Magazine. 18 (1): 55. doi:10.1609/aimag.v18i1.1274. ISSN 2371-9621.
- ^ Guzzoni, Didier; et al. (1998). "Robots in a Distributed Agent System." Cognitive Robotics" (PDF). Cognitive Robotics-Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium: 61–67.
- ^ Guzzoni, Didier (2007). "Active: A unified platform for building intelligent applications". doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-3990.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Didier Guzzoni, the Swiss inventor of Siri". House of Switzerland. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "Didier Guzzoni, l'inventeur suisse de Siri: "N'ayons pas peur de l'intelligence artificielle"". Le Temps (in French). 2020-09-25. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "Aujourd'hui en Suisse". SWI swissinfo.ch (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "Startup Champions". www.ifj.ch (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-16.
External links
edit- Website of Apple Inc.