Communication Association. Books He is the author of The Voice in the Machine, published by MIT Press in 2011, a general audience book on the history, technology, and the business of computers that understand speech. In September 2021, still with MIT Press, he published AI Assistants, an accessible account of the recent evolution of virtual digital assistant like Siri, Amazon Alexa, and the Google Assistant. Honors and awards He is the recipient of PrimiDieci USA 2016, an award sponsored by the Italian-American Chamber of Commerce and recognizing, every year, 10 prominent Italian-Americans in fields such as science, technology, and art. On December 10, 2019 he received a Doctor in Science honorary degree from the Heriot Watt University of Edinburgh. References American computer scientists Living people Fellow Members of the IEEE American chief technology officers 1955 births Italian computer scientists Speech processing researchers