WATERLOO — A University of Waterloo-based startup, Inductiv, has been acquired by Apple.
The startup developed artificial intelligence that automatically corrects faulty data. Apple will use the technology in Siri, its famous voice-activated assistant.
It was cofounded by University of Waterloo’s Ihab Ilyas, the Thomson Reuters-National Science and Engineering Research Chair in data quality. Ilyas works out of the university’s Cheriton School of Computer Science.
Clean data is essential for artificial intelligence, and Inductiv specialized in an area called machine learning, which uses algorithms to automatically find patterns in huge amounts of data.
Theo Rekatsinas, an assistant professor at UW who heads a lab focused on machine learning and data, and Stanford’s Christopher Ré, are also cofounders of Inductiv.
