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I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cort...

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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder ...

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The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problem...

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Jeff Hawkins

Born: 1957-06-01

Died: N/A

Jeffrey Hawkins (born June 1, 1957) is the founder of Palm Computing (where he invented the Palm Pilot) and Handspring (where he invented the Treo). He subsequently turned to work on neuroscience, founding the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002. In 2005 he founded Numenta, where he leads a team in efforts to reverse-engineer the neocortex and enable machine intelligence technology based on brain theory.More