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Agilent Technologies’ New Pathway Architect Software to Include SRI International’s BioCyc Pathway Database Collection
December 10, 2012

Agilent Technologies Inc. and SRI have signed a licensing agreement to offer laboratory research customers an integrated package that includes SRI's complete BioCyc Pathway Database Collection.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Biofuels + Bioproducts Drug Discovery Proteomics Synthetic Biology
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New Software Speeds Development of Genome-Scale Models for Drug and Fuel Research
January 24, 2012

A new software tool can substantially decrease time required for researchers to construct genome-scale models of metabolic networks. Metabolic networks are the complete set of metabolic and physical processes that determine physiological and biochemical properties of a cell.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics + Computational Biology Drug Discovery Software Engineering Synthetic Biology

SRI In the News

The Best of 2012 AI: A Look Back at The Year’s Top Virtual Assistants, Lurching Giants and Augmented Reality
Silicon Angle  |  January 1, 2013

Siri, Apple's intelligent personal assistant that was born from SRI technology, is one of artificial intelligence’s highlights of 2012.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
The Year in Computing: A Look Back at Predictive Assistants and Lurching Giants
MIT Technology Review  |  December 25, 2012

This article notes that SRI, creator of Siri, also created a similar system capable of working as a bank teller.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
How Did Siri Get Its Name?
Forbes  |  December 21, 2012

Adam Cheyer, co-founder of SRI spin-off Siri, Inc. (acquired by Apple) explains how Siri got its interesting name.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Siri for Travel, Desti, Launches iPad App in Public Beta Giving Users Their Own “Smart Travel Guide”
The Next Web  |  November 9, 2012

This article notes that SRI has produced some remarkable technologies over the years. Another one of Siri’s siblings has launched into public beta and hopes to help make travel planning and discovery much smarter.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Siri’s Sister Desti is a Virtual Tour Guide to Answer All Your Travel Queries
VentureBeat  |  November 8, 2012

This article reports that Desti is not just another travel app. It is a virtual tour guide that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to comprehend and respond to specific queries. The startup launched its open beta today with technology developed out of SRI.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Speech, Language, and Audio
Desti, a Virtual Personal Assistant for Travel, Launches on iPad
All Things D  |  November 8, 2012

SRI spin-off Desti has launched a free mobile app that wants to combine natural language search with artificial intelligence technology to make the whole thing easier. All Things D's Lauren Graham takes a look.

SRI Spinout Desti Builds a Siri-like Personal Travel Assistant
GigaOm  |  November 8, 2012

This article reports that Apple’s Siri works pretty well as a personal assistant but it’s not equipped to be your virtual travel guide. But Desti which, like Siri, is a spin out from SRI, has launched in public beta and is looking to take on that job for consumers.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Plan Your Next Trip With Desti, A Conversational iPad App Spun Out From Siri-Creator SRI
TechCrunch  |  November 8, 2012

This article reports that there’s no shortage of travel guides and services on the web, but in some ways, that can be a curse—travel-planning can become a long process of browsing site after site and reading review after review. That’s where a startup called Desti comes in.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
5 Reasons Why Self Service Mobile Apps are the Next Big Thing
Before It’s News  |  October 11, 2012

This column states that “a flood of Siri-like apps are coming” and quotes a recent article in SoftwareAdvice.com that described projects in development at SRI and “why mobile customer service is ripe for development.”

Siri creator SRI International Hopes Lola Cashes in, Too
Silicon Valley/ San Joes Business Journal:  |  July 6, 2012

This article reports that SRI International has partnered with Spanish bank BBVA to create Lola, “a Siri-like virtual personal assistant that specifically helps customers with their banking needs.”

Topics: Artificial Intelligence

Events

AIC Seminar with Lenore Zuck: Rambling on Ethics in Computer Science
SRI Menlo Park (Room: EJ228)  |  July 9, 2012

Lenore Zuck will give some of the "philosophical” reasons for incorporating ethical thinking when developing technology and in computer science, critique the existing codes of ethics, and suggest challenges that should be overcome to reach the idealistic goal of ethical data sharing.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
AIC Seminar with Margaret-Anne Storey: Collaborative Visualization of Ontologies and Ontology Mappings
SRI Menlo Park (Room: EJ228)  |  July 11, 2012

Ontologies provide powerful and concise conceptualizations of domain knowledge that must be machine-processable but also human-readable to improve ease of use and also to ease communication across stakeholders.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
AIC Seminar: Measuring Semantic Similarity between Short Texts
SRI - Menlo Park (Room: EJ228)  |  July 12, 2012

SRI will host Mihai Lintean, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department at the University of Memphis. Lintean will present his work on measuring semantic similarity between short texts.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan Huang, Stanford University
AIC Seminar: Algebraic Approaches for Reasoning in Very Noisy Multi-Target Tracking Problems
SRI Menlo Park (Room: EJ228)  |  August 9, 2012

Probabilistic reasoning and learning with permutation data arises as a fundamental problem in myriad applications. Huang will discuss an algebraic approach, and its implications for multi-target tracking.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence

Podcasts

Vinay K. Chaudri
Can Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Reasoning Improve Textbooks?
June 12, 2012

Digital textbooks can provide a more engaging learning experience, especially for students who may otherwise be left behind.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies Out-of-School Learning

Publications

Speaker Recognition with Region-constrained MLLR Transforms
IEEE  |  March, 2012

In this paper we ask if another major class of speaker recognition models, those based on MLLR speaker adaptation transforms, can also benefit from region-constrained feature extraction.

Topics: Speech, Language, and Audio

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