LOS ANGELES, Calif. – September 21, 2007 Cognitive Code Corporation, a start up technology company specializing in practical conversational artificial intelligence, is pleased to announce that they have been named one of the top startups in the 2007 competition sponsored by TechCrunch. The TechCrunch40 is a merit-based competition and conference designed to identify and introduce the hottest startups in the world.
Leslie Spring, the CTO of Cognitive Code, had the following comments: “The TechCrunch40 elimination process was exciting for us. Our initial entry into this year’s TechCrunch was a bit of a happy accident, as we had only learned of the competition a couple of days before the entry deadline. Now that we have presented and the conference is over, we have been overwhelmed with the positive response and the fantastic contacts that we made as a result. Thanks to Heather Harde, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, and the rest of the TechCrunch team for making this event happen."
According to Jason Calacanis of TechCrunch, over 750 applications were received, from 26 different countries. After personally interviewing 175+ businesses, with some companies having to do multiple follow-up interviews, the TechCrunch team made their final selections.
As one of the TechCrunch40, Cognitive Code was able to present for an amazing who’s-who in the world of technology. Expert panelists included
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine
Mark Andreesen, serial entrepreneur, best know for co-founding Netscape and co-authoring the Mosaic web browser
Ryan Block, editor-in-chief, Engadget
Don Dodge, Director of Emerging Business Development at Microsoft
Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media and formerly a senior writer for Business 2.0, Red Herring, and Forbes
Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google
Using proprietary artificial intelligence technologies, code named "SILVIA", Cognitive Code Corporation has developed a cross-platform runtime for business and consumer applications. "Desktop SILVIA" delivers conversational computing for Windows (2K, XP, Vista), Mac OS-X, Linux, BSD, and Solaris operating systems.
The new technology platform gives SILVIA-enabled applications the ability to understand and react to users based on the contextual cues during conversational interactions, and to extract meaning from free-form spoken or text input. SILVIA applications can also easily interact with and manipulate files, operating systems, and other software in order to do practical things for users based on conversational interactions.
Over the past several months, the SILVIA techology has evolved into a robust, full featured software development and training environment for intelligent applications, giving Cognitive Code the ability to begin product development using the platform and tools.
Cognitive Code plans to release the "Desktop SILVIA" runtime core as part of the SILVIA Developer's Studio, due in Q4, 2007.
Cognitive Code has ported its proprietary "SILVIA" technologies to mobile devices. The "Pocket SILVIA" core is functionally and behavorially identical to her desktop sister, and is even capable of using the same SILVIA "brain" data files.
Optimized for portable devices, the Pocket SILVIA platform, when running, takes up less than 3MB of RAM, making Pocket SILVIA a suitable platform for intelligent applications in even the most restrictive embedded environments.
In the process of developing the Pocket SILVIA platform, Cognitive Code has leveraged its patent-pending algorithms to create an exciting and intuitive new input method for mobile devices that makes having free-form conversational interactions with Pocket SILVIA easy and fun.
Pocket SILVIA is the first full-featured artificial intelligence system of its kind, and brings a new class of conversational applications to mobile devices.
Cognitive Code is working with third-party OEM licensees in order to release its first Pocket SILVIA applications in Q4, 2008.