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Cortana, Siri ... Who comes up with these names? Thank fsck for Watson.

• radley 13y ago
  Cortana came from the mega-popular XBox game Halo. She was the AI who guided the player around. The name Siri is Norwegian, meaning "beautiful woman who leads you to victory", and comes from the intended name for the original developer's first child. - (Wikipedia)
  • tesseract 13y ago
    It's hard to imagine that the name Siri wasn't also an intentional reference to the name of the company that originally developed and named it, SRI.
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• ChuckMcM 13y ago
  Well they could have called it the Red Queen, but that probably wouldn't be as well received :-) More seriously, the answer to your question is 'lawyers' (well they don't come up with them but they make sure they are trademarkable/protectable)