Nestled away in Carnegie Pennsylvania - just outside of Pittsburgh - is where you'll find NeuralWare and the NeuralWare team. From our Main Street home a block away from Papa J's (one of the finest Italian restaurants in the area!) we offer products and services driven by this simple yet important observation -

And we believe the challenge of discovering knowledge and unlocking value demands tools and methods more robust and powerful than standard linear programming, cross tabulation, or statistical models.

Since 1987 we have been designing, developing, and marketing neural network development tools and other advanced technologies for building empirical data-based forecasting and classification models.

In 1997, we were acquired by a larger company, and for a while our attention was diverted from our core business - selling and supporting the world's best neural network development tools. But even then, we continued to focus on state-of-the-art-technologies. We maintained our commitment to research and development that leads to solutions for real world problems.

By the year 2000, we had become an independent company once again. And though independence needed only the stroke of a pen, most of 2000 was spent contacting customers, installing new administrative systems, and making the necessary product and documentation changes to reflect our new status.

Now, in 2001, even at the risk of sounding trite, as the world embarks on a new millennium, NeuralWare too is embarking on a new journey. Our NeuralWorks® product line is beginning to incorporate the results of our behind-the-scenes research and development. We've re-established relationships with customers from years past, and we're actively developing strategic partnerships with new customers. We are a member of the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (CALD) at Carnegie Mellon University, and we are a member of the Pittsburgh Robotics Initiative. And most importantly, we're again fully focused on creating the highest quality, most comprehensive, and easiest to use empirical modeling and data mining software tools. We are using these tools to create new enterprise level data mining and online transaction processing analytic solutions demanded in today's interconnected world.

The Team

    The NeuralWare team is an eclectic group. Our CEO, Jack Copper, is a Nuclear Engineer from the University of Virginia who first learned about neural networks way back in 1971 in an undergraduate course titled, believe it or not, "Problems in the Philosophy of Religion." He knew then that neural networks would be important; it just took 30 years to get to where he could actually demonstrate it. In between, he has designed and implemented a wide variety of software components and systems, ranging from geographical information systems for transportation fare calculations to microprocessor-based energy management systems to robotic welding systems. He invented one of the world's first wireless pointing devices, and he holds several patents related to wireless communication for devices that are used to control computers and other equipment. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation and from NASA to develop prototype analysis systems based on neural network technology developed with NeuralWare tools. He has also taken graduate level management and computer science courses at Carnegie Mellon University, but he could never stick around long enough to complete a degree - the world was much more interesting.

     John Wavle, our Vice President of Sales, rejoined NeuralWare in September 2001 after a short (but too long for us) hiatus. John has over 20 years of sales and management experience across the technology sector. Before we convinced him to return to the fold, John worked with RedSiren Technologies and Cerebellum Software, serving in key sales and marketing management and leadership positions. In addition to identifying and cultivating important enterprise IT contacts, John was instrumental in creating Tele-sales and Tele-marketing infrastructures for those organizations. In his previous life at NeuralWare, over a five-year time period he rose from a Senior Account Manager to become Director of Sales. In the process, he got to know many of our North American and European customers and he very much looks forward to working with them again. Before John joined NeuralWare the first time, he held national and international sales positions at Delphi/Redshaw, Algor Inc., Telesis Computer Corporation and Unisys. John holds a BA in Business Administration from Westminster College. And, by the way, he also enjoys coaching his son's soccer team.

    Alex Kulik, our Chief Scientist, is by education a high-energy experimental physicist, and by nature an extremely clever guy. Alex received his MSc in Experimental Nuclear Physics from the Moscow Physical Technical Institute, and his PhD in Experimental Physics from the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, Russia (formerly USSR). Before joining NeuralWare, Alex's work in experimental high energy physics involved developing unique algorithms and heuristic procedures to identify very small numbers of data records describing important events buried in very large amounts of experimental data. He knows how to find very small needles in very large haystacks. In fact, Alex was a member of the team at Fermi Lab that confirmed the existence of the elusive tau neutrino. At NeuralWare, Alex has been exploring ways to extend some of the classic neural network unsupervised training algorithms in ways that make them even more robust and effective.

    Carolyn Osmond, our Director of Business Services, holds the company together and makes sure that what we do is really for customers, while guaranteeing that NeuralWare is a well organized, high quality and enjoyable place to work. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she came to NeuralWare from the Administrative Computing Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She organized and conducted university-wide training on internal systems and participated in a host of university initiatives.

    Bob Everly is our Manager of Customer Support. Bob has been involved with high technology software companies for over 20 years, and 10 of those years have been devoted to ensuring that NeuralWare customers are able to take full advantage of the powerful, yet sometimes daunting, capabilities of NeuralWare products. Bob has come to know, through email and at times in person, a significant number of NeuralWare customers around the world. And they in turn have come to know that Bob can answer their questions. Bob's extensive experience and wide ranging input from NeuralWare customers is an important influence on NeuralWare's new product development efforts for the future.

Our Pittsburgh Roots

     Pittsburgh and the surrounding area are studies in contrast and transition. What was once the center of the steel industry is fast becoming a center for advanced biotechnology, robotics, health care, and computer science and engineering. In fact, Pittsburgh ranks 5th in the nation for per-capita research funding, and over 24,000 people are employed in 800+ information technology firms. Pittsburgh is home to Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, the National Robotics Engineering Consortium, the McGowan Center for Artificial Organ Development, the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Institute, many other applied research and development centers, and over 240 international firms. Recently, Seagate Technology, Oki Electric Industry Company, and Sony opened chip design centers in Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse supports System-on-a-Chip and related next-generation system design research that leads the nation.

    In addition, Pittsburgh's cultural heritage, past and present, is world renowned. From the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to the Carnegie Museum of Art to the Carnegie Science Center to the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh, the legacy of Andrew Carnegie lives on. The Andy Warhol Museum, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and the H. John Heinz History Center, along with many other cultural institutions, serve as a much needed counter-balance to the fast-paced technological and economic changes that are sweeping the area.