General Magic, for example, was founded in 1990 in Sunnyvale, California, to develop universal agents.
When people in Silicon Valley recall General Magic, they generally remember it as a tragedy.
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General Magic is using XML as part of its new voice agent technology, code-named Kenya.
Andy's a super smart person, having done stints at Apple, General Magic, WebTV and Danger before starting the Android project.
General Magic's latest offer for creating agents is a software package called Tabriz.
In fact, you could argue that General Magic did invent the modern smart phone and dominates the industry from beyond the grave.
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He later worked at General Magic, an early builder of information-gathering agents.
Originally an internal project at Apple, General Magic proposed making personal communicators that would let individuals get messages, perform computing functions and take calls remotely.
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There are tributes aplenty to his intelligence and creativity from colleagues and other business leaders at Apple, Adobe, Sun, General Magic and NeXT, among others.
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"It's been twenty years since famous names had their faces on the cover of Time magazine saying this would be the magic bullet, " says Norman Wolmark Chairman of Oncology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and an investigator in a trial testing Eloxatan.
Neil Smith, General Manager, Media Services, AOL, told me the ISP has leveraged the Network Magic platform to help reduce AOL's enormous call volume.
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