Roberto Pieraccini Director of Engineering Google Switzerland

Roberto Pieraccini is a technology expert in the fields of speech recognition, natural language, dialog, and human-machine interaction. He worked as a researcher at CSELT (Torino, Italy), Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ), AT&T Shannon Laboratories (Florham Park, NJ), SpeechWorks International (now Nuance), and IBM T.J. Watson Research (Yorktown Heights, NY). In 2005 he accepted the position of Chief Technology Officer at SpeechCycle, a company specializing in sophisticated technical support systems based on voice recognition technology. In 2012-2013 he was the director and CEO of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), at Berkeley, CA. He was the Director of Advanced Conversational Technology at Jibo, Inc. He is now at Google Switzerland as a Director of Engineering for the Google Assistant. He is the author of “The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers that Understand Speech,” published by MIT Press, a general audience book on the history and technology of human machine speech interaction. He is a fellow of IEEE and ISCA, and a member of the AVIOS board. In December 2019 he received an honorary degree of Dotctor of Science from the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

Monday, April 24, 2017

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

D102: PANEL: Will Digital Assistants Kill Our (Remaining) Privacy?

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Keynote 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

KEYNOTE PANEL - The Future of Conversational Robots

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

B204: Why You’ll Want a Robot

Monday, August 17, 2015

3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

C105: Building Skills for a Conversational Robot

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

A304: PANEL: A Decade at SpeechTEK: Speech 2005–2015

Monday, August 18, 2014

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

D101: PANEL: New Technologies Coming Soon

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

D204: PANEL: Voice UI Meets Ubiquitous Computing

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Keynote 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Open the Pod Bay Doors, Siri!

Monday, August 13, 2012

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	D101: Advanced Spoken Language Research Summary TT
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	D105: Advanced Speech Technologies

Monday, August 8, 2011

4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	D105: Advanced Research in Human Machine Spoken Dialogue Interaction
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	D104: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Customer Experiences

Thursday, 26 May 2011

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

A204: Customer interaction anywhere, any time, any device

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	C302: Next-Generation Natural Language Processing
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	C304: Toward Anthropomorphic Systems
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	C301: Advanced Research in Human Machine Spoken Dialogue Interaction

Wednesday, August 26 2009

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

A303: Evolution of Multimodal Customer Care

Monday, August 24 2009

3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

C105: Natural Communication Technology

Tuesday, August 25 2009

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	C201: Evolving Standards, Part 2
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	C202: Advanced Interaction Technology
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.	C205: Next-Generation Dialogue Systems

Monday, August 18

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

C101: Advanced ASR: A Global Perspective

Monday, August 20

1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

C103: Advances in Natural Language Processing