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In December 2011, Wolfram Alpha began answering product-shopping questions for Siri users, querying Best Buy's catalogue of 35,000 consumer products so an iPhone assistant could return prices, features and comparisons from a spoken request.
On 14 October 2011 Apple released the iPhone 4S with Siri built in, turning a research project born at SRI International and shaped by a DARPA program into a conversational assistant on ordinary phones.
On October 10, 2011, Stanford Engineering opened three free online computer science courses — databases, machine learning and artificial intelligence — to anyone online. Enrolments ran from 66,000 to an unprecedented 160,000 students from over 190 countries, without Stanford credit.
On 27 September 2011 the National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing was unveiled at USTC, jointly built with iFlytek to connect speech research, product testing and standards work.
On September 12, IBM named WellPoint as the first partner building commercial Watson applications, aimed at evidence-based medicine for physicians, with clinical pilots planned for early 2012.
The 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held on August 7–11, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, bringing AI researchers and practitioners together for keynotes, invited talks and scientific exchange; David Ferrucci of IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center gave a keynote.
In July 2011 Google acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), a Carnegie Mellon spin-off whose software could find and track faces in photos and video, bringing facial-recognition technology into Google.
On 16 June 2011 Microsoft released a free beta of the Kinect for Windows SDK from Microsoft Research, giving developers depth, skeletal-tracking and microphone-array data on Windows 7.
On 24 February 2011 NASA launched Robonaut 2, a humanoid built with General Motors, aboard space shuttle Discovery on STS-133 — the first human-like robot sent to space. It flew as a torso-only prototype for testing in microgravity.
On Feb. 17, 2011, IBM and Nuance Communications announced a research agreement to apply Watson's analytics to health care, days after Watson's televised Jeopardy win.
The 2011 ILSVRC saw XRCE, the 2010 runner-up, win classification with compressed high-dimensional signatures and linear SVMs, while the new single-object localization task was won by UvA's selective search approach.
Kinect was Microsoft's motion-sensing, controller-free input device for the Xbox 360, released in November 2010. It used cameras and infrared depth sensing for gesture and skeletal tracking, and sold more than 8 million units in its first 60 days.
In October 2010 Google announced on its corporate blog that it had developed technology for cars that drive themselves, a project led by Sebastian Thrun and framed around safety, time and emissions.
The spring 2010 release of ImageNet, announced by Fei-Fei Li on 11 May 2010, totalled more than 11 million images in 15,500 categories and added bounding boxes, SIFT features and a MATLAB toolbox, alongside a call to join ILSVRC2010.
On 28 May 2009 Microsoft unveiled Bing, a search engine it presented as a decision engine that organizes results around tasks such as shopping, travel and health, and the first internet service it gave a Chinese brand. It marked a renewed attempt to challenge Google's search dominance.
Wolfram|Alpha went live on the evening of 15 May 2009 and was declared officially launched on 18 May 2009, after a weekend of load testing, bug fixes and more than 22,000 pieces of user feedback.
On 17 November 2008 Google added voice search to its Google Mobile App for iPhone, letting U.S. English users speak a web query instead of typing it.
CUDA is NVIDIA's software platform for running general-purpose programs on GPU cores. CUDA Toolkit 1.0 shipped in June 2007, turning graphics chips into parallel processors for science and later for deep learning.
On 28 April 2006 Google announced a statistical machine translation approach, and Google Translate launched as a service built on it — the start of free web translation for a mass audience.
Amazon's crowdsourcing marketplace, launched in 2005, lets requesters post small jobs called HITs that workers around the world complete for a fee. ImageNet's builders used it to verify images.
In September 2002 iRobot unveiled Roomba, a home robot vacuum that became the company's first mass-market product and, by one account, created the consumer robot vacuum category.
