Jeff Hawkins, co-founder of Palm and Handspring, is now working to apply principles of Neuroscience to the development of intelligent computing platforms. In 2004, Hawkins co-authored a book, On Intelligence, which explains how a new model of the human brain will change how we design intelligent computers. Hawkins's new company, Numenta, seeks to employ the principles from his book to make advanced platforms for cognitive computing. The foremost of those principles is that of Heirarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), a model of the spacio-temporal character of the brain's Neocortex. Numenta recently released its first Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC), targeted to "sophisticated developers for the purpose of education and experimentation."

Numenta: Has Artificial Intelligence Arrived?

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