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History
Ward Systems Group, Inc. was established in 1988 to develop and sell analytical software that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI). The company's first product called NeuroShell was developed by company founder Steve Ward. He believed that neural networks could solve many types of problems but the commercially available software at that time was "too complex to use easily and apply to routine problems"

The DOS based version of NeuroShell was followed in 1991 by NeuroWindows, a neural network library for Microsoft's programming Visual Basic system. NeuroWindows was designed to process input data and produce a prediction or classification.

The company continued to develop new neural network software including:

NeuroShell 2 in xxxx, which included 16 different neural network architectures.

NeuroShell Predictor and Classifier, which include a proprietary neural network algorithm called TurboProp 2, which allowed users to solve prediction and classification problems without tweaking neural network training parameters.

GeneHunter is a genetic algorithm software program that can solve optimization problems. GeneHunter includes an Excel Add-in which allows the user to run and optimization problem from Microsfot Excel or as a Dynamic Link Library of genetic algorithm functions callable from programming languages.

"NeuroShell Trader combines traditional and artificial intelligence techniques to build trading systems that can be backtested and optimized." The software was first released by Ward Systems Group Inc. in 1997. "The company produces software solutions for education, research, and forecasting outside the realm of financial markets as well, such as medical and scientific applications and process control."