Former NASA chief launches neural tech company with $100M investment ZDNet

Dan Goldin, who led the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the 1990s, officially unveiled a company with more than $100 million in private investment to focus on neural computing. The company KnuEdge was founded in 2005, but its two divisions -- one focused on voice biometrics and the other on data center neural computing -- worked in stealth mode to bring its first two products to maturity. KnuEdge boasts that its voice recognition and authentication product, called KnuVerse, is military-grade technology that spent five years in production in "mission-critical battlefield conditions." It's now available for enterprises interested in building human-voice interfaces that can function in noisy, real-world environments. It can be used to build authentication systems into computers, web or mobile apps and IoT devices, relying on just a few words in any language.