It does not seem that the news catches the Cupertino company unexpectedly, after the arrival of the former Google executive John Giannandrea, who we can say is now in command of the Siri virtual assistant development team. It seems that the arrival of this executive has precipitated the departure of Gruber's company.
Apparently not the company's only staff outing this week, Apple's search chief Vipul Ved Prakash also said goodbye to his colleagues this week. All of this is common in companies as large as Apple that see high positions come and go for various reasons, whether it be signing in another company or directlyto retire to dedicate itself to other tasks as it seems to be the case of Gruber.
For those who do not know Thomas robert "Tom " Gruber founded Siri Inc. which would later be bought by Apple and implemented on their devices to date. Gruber is an American computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur dedicated to systems for the exchange of knowledge and collective intelligence.
He made foundational contributions to ontological engineering and is known for his definition of "ontology" in the context of artificial intelligence. Since the purchase of Apple, the work of this computer scientist and his two retired partners Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheye went through the development of Siri, the assistant that Apple introduced for the first time on its iPhone 4s.
John Giannandrea, stays in charge of the Siri team. How can it be otherwise, Giannandrea is left in charge of Apple's assistant development team and it is expected that it can improve and refine its operation or its intelligence a little more, although now with the arrival of "custom orders" that we can add in Siri from the next version of iOS, we do not know very well where they are going to get your hands on the computer scientists and engineers on the development team
