Jeff Hawkins

This article is about the businessperson. For the diplomat and academic, see Jeffrey J. Hawkins. For the Scientology critic, see Jefferson Hawkins.
Jeff Hawkins
Hawkins at eTech 2007
Born
Jeffrey Hawk

Huntington, New York, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Businessperson, computer scientist, neuroscientist, engineer
Known forCo-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).

  1. ^ Hawkins & Blakeslee 2004, pp. 4, 28.
  2. ^ Metz (2018a).
  3. ^ "History of the Redwood Center". Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
  4. ^ "What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex". IEEE Spectrum. June 2, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2024.