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
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 do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.
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.
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.
We are in limited production. We will not have a lot of units. That's why we're not in broad distribution today.
The Pilot was born in desperation. When all your other options are closed, you might as well try to do the right thing.
It's getting more serious, ... by the spring almost all of our students are driving.
At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.
The reason the Palm is so successful is the simplicity of using them. They kind of just work.