Siri creator Kittlaus dodges death

From Siri creator Dag Kittlaus comes Viv, a product that aims to be the next generation personal assistant. Kittlaus sat down with USA TODAY's Ed Baig to talk about Viv and where he thinks its headed. SAN FRANCISCO -- No matter what tech innovations Dag Kittlaus creates in the coming years, the 49-year-old speech recognition expert will be best known as the man who sold Siri to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Now, strangely, the two figures have something else in common. According to an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, Kittlaus reveals that in a routine screening he discovered he had the same rare type of pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer that felled Jobs in 2011.