With that kind of list, it sure sounds like Hendrich's describing a human. Which is precisely what she and her team set out to do during Cortana's development; create an AI with human-like qualities. Microsoft's decision to infuse Cortana with a personality stemmed from one end goal: user attachment.
Kris Kringle. Kris Kringle may refer to: Santa Claus, by assimilation in the United States of the separate German tradition below Kris Kringle, the lead character in Miracle on 34th Street. Christkind (or Christkindl), the Austrian and German Christmas gift-bringer, the Christ Child.
PATRICIA WIGLE, PharmD, BCPS, is an associate professor of pharmacy practice in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio) James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, and a clinical pharmacist in the outpatient anticoagulation clinic at West Chester (Ohio) Hospital.