Jeff Hawkins

Biography

American inventor and computer scientist, born in Huntington, New York in 1957 and a 1979 graduate in electrical engineering from Cornell. He founded Palm Computing in 1992, where he led the PalmPilot and other handheld devices; co-founded Handspring in 1998; founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute in 2002, later associated with UC Berkeley; and founded Numenta in 2005 to advance brain-based machine intelligence. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. With Sandra Blakeslee he wrote On Intelligence (2004), which set out the memory-prediction framework, and in 2021 published A Thousand Brains, extending it into the thousand-brains theory.