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Jeff Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins | |
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 Hawkins at eTech 2007 | |
| Born | Jeffrey Hawk Huntington, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Businessperson, computer scientist, neuroscientist, engineer |
| Known for | Co-founder of Palm and Handspring |
Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, computer scientist, neuroscientist and engineer. He co-founded Palm Computing — where he co-created the PalmPilot and Treo — and Handspring.[1][2]
He subsequently turned to work on neuroscience, founding in 2002 the Redwood Neuroscience Institute.[3] In 2005 he co-founded Numenta, where he leads a team in efforts to reverse-engineer the neocortex and enable machine intelligence technology based on brain theory.[4]
He is the co-author of On Intelligence (2004), which explains his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain, and the author of A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (2021).
- ^ Hawkins & Blakeslee 2004, pp. 4, 28.
- ^ Metz (2018a).
- ^ "History of the Redwood Center". Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
- ^ "What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex". IEEE Spectrum. June 2, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
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