Jeff Hawkins
American businessperson
Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, computer scientist, neuroscientist and engineer. He co-founded Palm Computing where he co-created the PalmPilot, the Palm Treo and Handspring.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Jeff Hawkins (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Jun 1, 1957.1
About
He subsequently turned to work on neuroscience, founding in 2002 the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. 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.
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).
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Companies
- HandspringFounder10
- NumentaFounder11
- Palm, Inc.Founder12
Early life and education
- Date not recordedCornell University College of Engineering3
- Date not recordedHarborfields High School3
- Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley3
- Date not recordedCornell University3
Hawkins attended Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor of Science with a major in electrical engineering in 1979.
His interest in pattern recognition for speech and text input to computers led him to enroll in the biophysics program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. While there he patented a "pattern classifier" for handwritten text, but his PhD proposal on developing a theory of the neocortex was rejected.
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Career
Occupation: computer scientist, entrepreneur, artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, businessperson.7
- Date not recordedFounded Numenta4
- Date not recordedFounded Handspring5
- Date not recordedFounded Palm, Inc.6
Hawkins joined GRiD Systems in 1982, where he developed rapid application development (RAD) software called GRiDtask. As vice president of research from 1988 to 1992, he developed their pen-based computing initiative that in 1989 spawned the GridPad, one of the first tablet computers.
Hawkins founded Palm Inc., in January 1992. In 1998 he left the company along with Palm co-founders Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan to start Handspring.
In March 2005, Hawkins, together with Dubinsky (Palm's original CEO) and Dileep George, founded Numenta, Inc.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataJeff Hawkins on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJeff Hawkins on Wikipedia
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- 10WikidataHandspring, Founder
- 11WikidataNumenta, Founder
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