Jeff Hawkins

Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, neuroscientist and engineer. He co-founded Palm Computing — where he co-created the PalmPilot and Treo — and Handspring.

This article is about the businessperson. For the diplomat and academic, see Jeffrey J. Hawkins. For the Scientology critic, see Jefferson Hawkins.
Jeff Hawkins
Hawkins at eTech 2007
Born
Jeffrey Hawk

Huntington, New York, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Businessperson, neuroscientist, engineer
Known forCo-founder of Palm and Handspring

He subsequently turned to work on neuroscience, founding the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002. In 2005 he 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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