Jeff Hawkins
Neuroscientist and technology entrepreneur
Jeff Hawkins is an American computer scientist, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. He co-founded Palm Computing before turning to research on how the brain works.
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American Born in Huntington, United States
About Jeff Hawkins
At Palm Computing he helped create the PalmPilot and the Palm Treo, and he was also a founder of Handspring. He then moved into neuroscience and founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute in 2002. In 2005 he co-founded Numenta, a research company where he leads a team studying how the neocortex works. The National Academy of Engineering elected him as a member in 2003. On Intelligence (2004) was written with Sandra Blakeslee and sets out his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain. A Thousand Brains (2021) is subtitled A New Theory of Intelligence.