Luc Julia, scientific director of the Renault Group and co-creator of Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, analyzes the small and big stories of Silicon Valley in a book, A Frenchman in Silicon Valley.
The opportunity for this specialist in artificial intelligence to remember his arrival and his thirty-year journey in the cradle of technology located in the southeastern San Francisco Bay Area. “There has been a lot of talk about Silicon Valley, for better and for worse, and I was a bit tired of hearing nonsense about this region,” Luc Julia explains to Tech&Co to explain the reasons behind the publication of this book.
Steve Jobs criticizes him and then hires him at Apple
After having worked in several French institutions, Luc Julia decides to leave for the United States to fulfill his desires for scientific research and entrepreneurship. After a first experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston (MIT), he moved to Silicon Valley. After passing through Samsung in particular, Luc Julia founded the company Orb, specialized in streaming long before this type of technology was democratized.
A technology that Luc Julia will present in 2003 to… Steve Jobs. “After a quarter of an hour, he tells me it’s crap and breaks down.” However, in 2010, he was called upon again by the founder of Apple to join the ranks of the Apple brand and co-create the Siri voice assistant, which would be one of the flagship features of the iPhone 4S released in 2011. The rest belongs to history. .
Source: BFM TV
