South Korean tech giant Samsung plans to buy a new innovation by the team that invented the Siri personal assistant on Apple devices.Viv is being developed by the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which also previously was home to the Research Institute's IoM – Iris on Move (IOM).Viv's ancestor Siri was created after Siri Inc spun out of SRI International in 2008. Viv is said to be a more powerful, extensible iteration of Siri technology.IOM is a now Princeton Identity product. Princeton Identity, formerly a line of business of SRI International marketed under the SRI Identity brand, is a provider of biometric technologies for government and commercial applications, as well as for mainstream physical identity access management (PIAM) applications. In August, Princeton Identity, formerly SRI Identity, announced its separation from SRI International, launching as an independent company.
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