Horn said that he personally was unaware of the emissions rigging software despite hearing about issues with emissions compliance as early as spring 2014.
With testimony dominated by talk of standard variances, preference theories and voting machine software, the hearing took on the spirit of a political science seminar.
Using deep learning methods and neural networks, the pair has helped create software for hearing aids that has already shown significant improvements in background noise reduction.
Hunched over my computer, immersed in my point-of-sales software, I heard the tell-tale sounds from below.
But when CEO Jason Oxenham digs into the company's records, he does find the name once in a 2014 e-mail chain: That's when ClickBank, the sales and affiliate marketing firm that helps advertise Rocket Languages' software, first heard from an Argentine man named Alexis Pablo Marrocco.
You can also log in to the software and hear a recording of the calls for all of your properties.
Berkeley Systems started out as a family start-up to make utility software for the hearing- and sight-impaired.
Or, in a crowd setting: imagine a version of Siri's voice recognition software giving the hearing aid user a way to focus on one speaker and mute everything, and everyone, else.
"Tom instruments his business better than anyone I've ever seen, and he manages accordingly," says Robert Austrian, a Banc of America Securities analyst who throttled back his optimism on software firms after hearing Siebel last February.
In 2012, he formed Practice Panther, a legal-practice-management software company, after hearing his wife, an attorney, complain time and again about the frustrating computer programs she was forced to use in the office.
