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
We are in limited production. We will not have a lot of units. That's why we're not in broad distribution today.
Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.
I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.
We played today with unbelievable energy. This was the toughest week of the year. We needed a win to get us out of a funk of our two losses.
We've got our minds so much on basketball stuff and practice, I forgot it was New Year's Eve. Thanks for reminding me, though.
Guys are figuring out their roles. My key role is not turning over the ball. When I come in the game and come out, we shouldn't be worse off than where we started.
That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.
That was the biggest game we played all year. Our young players didn't know what to expect. Now they know what's going on and be a little more calm and focused. I think we'll be ready for the challenge.
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.
Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.