sirikit – Tarik Billa

Siri programming language [closed]

December 28, 2023 by Tarik

In terms of the Siri work, the direct predecessor ( http://www.sri.com/about/siri-timeline.html), the Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) Program, did produce an “agent-based language/framework” SPARK (not to be confused with SPARK Ada). They have publicly available documentation on it http://www.ai.sri.com/~spark/, https://pal.sri.com/CALOfiles/cstore/PAL-publications/calo/2005/IntrotoSPARK.pdf, and http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/1023.pdf (and an Eclipse plugin, apparently). This is very different from a general-purpose programming … Read more

How to integrate app with iOS Contacts app?

August 10, 2023 by Tarik

I asked about this at WWDC 2019 and was told that this kind of mass donation only works for VOIP apps, not for messaging apps. The code in this question would in theory work for VOIP– maybe or maybe not exactly as presented. I haven’t tried because I don’t work on the right kind of … Read more