Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins
Hawkins at eTech 2007
Born
Jeffrey Hawk

(1957-06-01) June 1, 1957
Alma mater
OccupationsBusinessperson, computer scientist, neuroscientist, engineer
Known forCo-founder of Palm and Handspring

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

He subsequently turned to work on neuroscience, founding in 2002 the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. In 2005 he co-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).