Mobile Apps Using More Semantic Technology

September 19, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Mobile Apps Using More Semantic Technology

Tempo is the latest smart calendar app that seeks to replace the native calendar apps on smartphones. The technology driving the app is from the same U.S. Defense Department’s DARPA SRI-led research that produced Apple’s Siri and Yahoo’s Summly. Search Engine Land brought this news to our attention in their article, “Tempo “Calendar Assistant” Uses Search Like Google Now.”

The original DARPA project was called CALO, which stands for Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes.

Tempo is a little different from technology like Siri, in that its core capabilities are drawn from a different aspect of the CALO project. Tempo integrates with smartphone users’ contacts, existing calendar, email, and social networks to create a more “actionable” user experience than a conventional calendar.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.