Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins is co-founder of two mobile computing companies, Palm and Handspring, and the principle inventor of such seminal devices as the PalmPilot and the Treo smartphone. Jeff also has a deep interest in theories of the neocortex. In 2002 he founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute (RNI), a non-profit scientific institute focused on how the human neocortex processes information. In 2004 he published a book, On Intelligence, which details a theory on how the neocortex works. In 2005, Hawkins co-founded Numenta to develop a technology platform derived from this theory. He earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1979. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.