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Jeff Hawkins

Né(e): June 01, 1957 – Huntington, New York, United States

Jeff Hawkins is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and neuroscientist whose work spans handheld computing, brain theory, and artificial intelligence. He co-founded Palm Computing and Handspring, helping popularize the PalmPilot, and later founded Numenta. He is the author of On Intelligence and A Thousand Brains, influential books on the neocortex and machine intelligence.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Jeff Hawkins built his career at the intersection of engineering, product design, and a long-running curiosity about the brain. Raised on Long Island in a family that liked building boats and mechanical projects, he studied electrical engineering at Cornell, graduating in 1979, then worked at Intel and GriD Systems. In 1986 he left industry for the University of California, Berkeley’s biophysics program to pursue neuroscience, but departed without completing the degree when his interests did not fit the academic structure. That detour proved decisive: work from that period fed into his handwriting-recognition software, later refined into Graffiti, and into his conviction that compact, human-centered computers could succeed where bulkier devices had failed. Through Palm and later Handspring, he helped define the PDA era and then the Treo smartphone line. ((https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/jeff-hawkins))

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To build truly intelligent machines, we first need to reverse-engineer the brain
-AI and the Brain
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The basic idea is simple
-Numenta Publishes a New Theory on Sensorimotor Inference
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As soon as you add this location signal, then all kinds of things make sense
-Brain Science Podcast
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Our paper makes contributions in both neuroscience and machine learning
-Numenta Researchers Discover How The Brain Learns Sequences
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Anything that acts has a model, it can be a very poor model
-Conversation with Jeff Hawkins – On Defining Intelligence
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Every column knows the location and it's sensing something
-Research Update with Jeff Hawkins – Part 1
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It's the same time, but you can speed up or slow it down
-Conversation with Jeff Hawkins – On the Thalamus
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The human brain is the best example we have of an intelligent system
-Thousand Brains Project
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computers were fun to work on, but my real passion was brains
-Interview with Yang Lan and Jeff Hawkins

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"Jeff Hawkins' new book, A Thousand Brains, introduces his ideas on the subject, written in a vigorous and engaging style"

The Humanist

"Jeff Hawkins takes on questions most neuroscientists don't even dare ask"

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"Jeff Hawkins is a visionary technologist and neuroscientist known for revolutionizing mobile computing"

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"Jeff Hawkins uses wonderfully clear and fast-moving prose to give an accessible overview of a theory of human intelligence"

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"Jeff Hawkins, Who Invented PalmPilot, Says He's Figured Out How The Brain Works"

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"Jeff Hawkins brought the world the PalmPilot and the Treo"

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