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Siri…from Search to Assistance and the road ahead!

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Now that you have watched the video, you can observe that,  Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to your preferences over time. You can ask Siri questions naturally just as you will ask your assistant,like ” Book a ticket for London!” or ” Will it snow today?”. It understands information like where you are, what accounts you have on various services and the context of the last question you asked. Over time ,Siri will improve by getting to know you better and understand a broader set of tasks and soon you’ll trust it to manage many personal details in your life – from recommending a wine you might enjoy to managing your to do list.

The current version of Siri is built for iPhone 3GS and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later. Soon, Siri will run on the iPod Touch, iPhone 3G and additional mobile platforms, as well.

Siri can get you information about Restaurants, Airline Tickets, Events, Taxis, Movies, Local and Weather Forcasts in a very simple conversation. Siri is the first Mobile Application which acts as a Virtual Personal Assistant. Its an intelligent software agent designed to have a back-and-forth conversational interaction with you as it helps you get tasks done.  The creation of Siri is a joint effort of designers and engineers pooled in from various all star organisations like Google, Yahoo, Apple, Motorola, Netscape, eBay, RealTravel, SRI, NASA, and Xerox PARC.

“In terms of long-term predictions, Siri is actually an easy bet.” – The New York Times.

“It’s the closest thing to a real assistant that you can talk to that I’ve ever seen.”- Vator News

To download this iPhone application visit :

http://siri.com/download/

For more details visit :

http://siri.com/

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Robots in Classroom: Yes, Kids love robots!

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Photograph: The Korea Herald/Asia News Network

Currently, only 50 out of the total 8,300 kindergartens across the Korea use robots. The Ministry of Education plans to provide 800 robots to kindergartens in underprivileged parts of the country tin 2010. “We plan to provide robots to kindergartens in the rural areas and encourage others to voluntarily use robots. We expect all kindergartens nationwide to use robots by 2013.”- Ministry official.

The BEST part of this program is that the kids and teachers love the idea of robots in the class. Not only the robots aid the teacher in reducing the time spent on checking student attendance, or checking whether students are active  or not, but also the students enjoy communicate with the robots through the robots speech and voice technology. The ministry has designated the state-run Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a main organization handling matters related to the establishment of the system.

Features offered by the Robots:
  • Checking student attendance
  • Connect to the internet through a computer and register students’ attendance records on a special website, through which parents can find out whether their children have arrived safely
  • Read out “Treasure Island,” an adventure novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, with pictures displayed on 7 inch screen.
  • Singing songs
  • Having conversations with students
  • Recording voices
  • Taking photos.
  • Responds when someone touches the robots head, hands and feet.

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