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
You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.
The real story is about how these modules work. It's a subtle one because people don't understand how they work. I think what we've done here is created the first true plug-and-play expansion capability.
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.
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.
We had to get on it every time we turned it over. There was a point we had to run a sprint for 80 seconds on the highest level of speed. That's a killer. My hamstring is still tight from that.
Visor Edge still supports all Springboard modules. You can add the Springboard slot as an option.
It would be great if a city could take only what is desirable to the city. But it?s there, and it?s not going to get any better until it?s in the city.
The whole team bought into what coach Self wanted us to do. We want to get them out of what they are used to doing, make it tough to run their offense.
This is not an Internet start-up. We're building a consumer electronics company. We're building hardware. You start it going and a year later you got a product. We've been doing the same thing for like a year. We're experienced at this. We've done this before.
This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off,
This is a better way for us to keep track
A win like this helps the freshmen. We haven't won as many games as we have in the past, and a lot of them are probably thinking like, 'Man.' But the more we win and the more we play good, it gets their confidence up.
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.