Jeff Hawkins
Businessperson, Organization founder
1957 –
Who is Jeff Hawkins?
Jeffrey Hawkins is the American founder of Palm Computing and Handspring. He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time, founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 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."
Hawkins also serves on the Advisory Board of the Secular Coalition for America and offers advice to the coalition on the acceptance and inclusion of nontheism in American life.
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- Born
- Jun 1, 1957
Huntington - Also known as
- Хокинс, Джефф
- 傑夫·霍金
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- Founder, Palm, Inc.
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on July 23, 2013
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