[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 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.
[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.
[17][18] 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.
[19] In July 2024, McCune accepted a position with Qorvo, a large semiconductor design and manufacturing company, to develop and implement new marketing strategies for its QSPICE circuit simulation software authored by Mike Engelhardt.