Jeff Hawkins

Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, computer scientist, neuroscientist and engineer, born in Huntington, New York. He co-founded Palm Computing, where he co-created the PalmPilot, the Palm Treo and Handspring. He subsequently turned to neuroscience, founding the Redwood Neuroscience Institute in 2002, and in 2005 he co-founded Numenta, where he leads a team working to reverse-engineer the neocortex and enable machine intelligence technology based on brain theory. He is the co-author of On Intelligence, published in 2004, which explains his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain, and the author of A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, published in 2021.