Adam Cheyer Co-Founder of Siri and Viv and Engineering Lead for Samsung Bixby - Voicebot Podcast Ep 69

Adam Cheyer is a co-founder of Siri and Viv. He is the technical
leader and visionary behind the original Siri on the iPhone 4s
and Bixby 2.0 which rolled out this year on Samsung’s Galaxy Note
9. I caught up with Adam at the Samsung Developer Conference in
San Francisco shortly after he presented an overview of Bixby’s
new IDE for developers. We go back to the first digital assistant
he developed while at Stanford Research Institute in the 1990’s
and trace a 25-year path culminating this week in Bixby 2.0’s
official launch.


Cheyer is currently a VP of Engineering of Viv Labs and Vice
President of R&D at Samsung. He is also a founding
member of Change.org and Sentient. Earlier in his career,
Adam held executive roles at SRI International in the
computer-human interaction center and the artificial
intelligence center. He earned an undergraduate computer science
degree from Brandeis and an M.S. in computer science from
UCLA. He is a true pioneer in the fields of artificial
intelligence, voice, and virtual assistants.