Jeff Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins
Jeffrey Hawkinsis the American founder of Palm Computing and Handspring. He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time, founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neurosciencein 2002, founded Numenta in 2005 and published On Intelligence describing his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain. In 2003 he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for the creation of the hand-held computing paradigm and the creation of the first commercially successful example of a hand-held computing device."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth1 June 1957
CountryUnited States of America
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
The real story is about how these modules work. It's a subtle one because people don't understand how they work. I think what we've done here is created the first true plug-and-play expansion capability.