Timothy S. McCune
Timothy S. McCune (born March 30, 1963) is an American businessman and former journalist known primarily as former president of Integrated Wave Technologies, Inc., and former president of Linear Integrated Systems, Inc. He is currently a semiconductor industry consultant and author.[1][2][3]
McCune was born in Plainfield, New Jersey to Robert Franklin McCune and Mary Elizabeth (Maurer) McCune.[4] Along with his sister, Barbara, the family moved to Sandwich, Illinois in 1967 when Bell Laboratories engineer Robert McCune was transferred to the new Indian Hill research facility in Naperville, IL. McCune attended public schools in Sandwich, being named Most Likely to Succeed by his high school graduating class.
McCune in 2004 became president of Integrated Wave Technologies, Inc., a company founded in 1992 to combine the talents of Silicon Valley pioneer John H. Hall with former Soviet scientists who had worked with speech recognition. McCune oversaw several generations of system development, which led to successful deployment of devices in combat operations.[5][6][7][8]
Building on that success, IWT received US Air Force funding for an advanced version of the device that provided for limited recognition of foreign language responses.[9][10]
McCune traveled extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan to complete testing and development of IWT’s flagship product, the Voice Response Translator (VRT).[11][12]
In 2008, Inc Magazine named IWT the 200th Fastest Growing Company in the US.[13]
In 2010, McCune was named as sole inventor in a patent related to IWT’s work for DARPA, US Patent 7,707,035.[14]
DARPA in 2011 awarded IWT with a contract for the purchase of 2,000 licenses for the digital version of the highly successful VRT application for Android systems. This application, called “MilTrans,” was the first app completed for DARPA’s TransApps (Transformative Apps) program and available in its Mobilize App Store. [15]
In 2014, McCune was named president of Linear Integrated Systems, Inc., after the death of company founder John H. Hall.
McCune published in December, 2017 a novel based on his travels to Afghanistan and Russia entitled, “Last Call in Kabul.” The book peaked at No.1 on Kindle in the Russian Fiction subcategory and No. 8 in the War Fiction subcategory.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.electronicdesign.com/home/contact/55140502/tim-mccune
- ^ https://defenseopinion.com/training-the-semiconductor-workforce-to-build-the-next-generation-of-weapons/690/
- ^ https://defenseopinion.com/washingtons-support-for-defense-critical-semiconductors-wont-fix-what-ails-industry/190/
- ^ https://www.wspynews.com/obituaries/robert-f-mccune-1937-2019/article_a579c2f8-55d7-55b0-9bc2-ef55d5a7a811.html
- ^ Ferrechio, Susan. "3 Minute Interview: Timothy McCune | WashingtonExaminer.com." Washington Examiner. January 12, 2009. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/3-minute-interview-timothy-mccune/article/106053.
- ^ Sridharan, Vasanth. "Timothy McCune President and Co-Owner, Integrated Wave Technologies - San Francisco Business Times." June 4, 2009. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/06/08/smallb3.html.
- ^ John H. Hall (inventor)
- ^ https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/voice-response-translator-valuable-police-tool
- ^ https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA427316.pdf
- ^ https://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=36068
- ^ Gossage, Bobbie. "10 Companies at War." Inc. Magazine. September 1, 2008. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www2.inc.com/ss/10-companies-at-war?slide=1#1.
- ^ Siriwardane, Venuri. "The Business of Iraq." Inc. Magazine. September 1, 2008. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/articles/iraq.html.
- ^ Gossage, Bobbie. "Integrated Wave Technologies Produces Language Translation Systems for High-noise Environments Such as Combat." Inc. Magazine. September 1, 2008. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.inc.com/profile/integrated-wave-technologies.
- ^ "Autonomous integrated headset and sound processing system for tactical applications".
- ^ "DARPA awards translation software license contract to Integrated Wave Technologies". 2013-11-20. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
- ^ Last Call in Kabul.
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