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]

Career

Guzzoni 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

Journal papers

Thesis

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

  1. ^ "Didier Guzzoni | BILANZ". Handelszeitung (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Didier René Guzzoni". www.ai.sri.com. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Guzzoni, Didier (2007). "Active: A unified platform for building intelligent applications". doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-3990. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "Didier Guzzoni, the Swiss inventor of Siri". House of Switzerland. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "Aujourd'hui en Suisse". SWI swissinfo.ch (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  10. ^ "Startup Champions". www.ifj.ch (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-16.

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