Cortana

“How we fell out of love with voice assistants”

The BBC article "How we fell out of love with voice assistants" by Katherine Latham is no surprise to me.…

2 years ago

New Adventure – Alexa AI

Today (4 Mar 2019) is going to be my first day with Amazon. I will be joining the “Alexa AI”…

6 years ago

On to new adventures

After another great and rewarding stint with Cortana, I said another difficult "goodbye" to the awesome team. Here's the email…

6 years ago

Digital Assistants are indeed emerging as a new platform

I just came across the "Why the iPhone Is Finally Fading” article. The author makes the case that it’s the…

6 years ago

Cortana, I am back!

I had a great time at Facebook. I learned a lot, wrote lots of code, and worked on conversational understanding technologies. I…

9 years ago

ReactGraph – Part 1: Graphs and Reactive Computing – Historical Context

Over the last few weeks, as a spare time side project, I’ve been experimenting with a concept that has been…

9 years ago

Are you using a digital personal assistant?

One of the design principles we established early with Cortana was the fact that a personal digital assistant is much…

9 years ago

Farewell Microsoft

It’s been a wonderful 9 year-long stretch at Microsoft. I’ve had the honor of working with incredibly smart people. I learnt…

10 years ago

Cortana is my sleepless personal assistant – how she deals with the Greek media :-)

Over the last few days, there has been a bit of media noise in Greece around my name. Two articles…

10 years ago

Cortana and Third-Party Services – Foursquare Today… More to Come in the Future

Have you watched the movie "Her"? I think many aspects of the OS's design in the movie will eventually find…

10 years ago