Jeff Hawkins' Cortex Sim Platform Available - Treo Forum

Kimmy · 03-09-2007, 12:55 AM

A Note From Jeff Hawkins

Donna Dubinsky, CEO

(thanks to slashdot for this info)

"Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he's been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005 book, On Intelligence, Hawkins laid out a theoretical framework describing how the neocortex processes sensory inputs and provides outputs back to the body. Numenta's goal is to build a software model of the human brain capable of face recognition, object identification, driving, and other tasks currently best undertaken by humans. For an overview see Hawkins' 2005 presentation at UC Berkeley. It includes a demonstration of an early version of the software that can recognize handwritten letters and distinguish between stick figure dogs and cats. White papers are available at Numenta's website. Numenta wisely decided to build a community of developers rather than trying to make everything proprietary. Yesterday they released the first version of their free development platform and the source code for their algorithms to anyone who wants to download it."

Kimmy · 03-09-2007, 01:13 AM

03-09-2007, 12:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
Kimmy Blonde Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a House at the end of my street... My Treo: Treo 650 Posts: 865 Thanks: 10 Thanked 20 Times in 17 Posts	Jeff Hawkins' Cortex Sim Platform Available A Note From Jeff Hawkins Donna Dubinsky, CEO (thanks to slashdot for this info) "Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he's been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005 book, On Intelligence, Hawkins laid out a theoretical framework describing how the neocortex processes sensory inputs and provides outputs back to the body. Numenta's goal is to build a software model of the human brain capable of face recognition, object identification, driving, and other tasks currently best undertaken by humans. For an overview see Hawkins' 2005 presentation at UC Berkeley. It includes a demonstration of an early version of the software that can recognize handwritten letters and distinguish between stick figure dogs and cats. White papers are available at Numenta's website. Numenta wisely decided to build a community of developers rather than trying to make everything proprietary. Yesterday they released the first version of their free development platform and the source code for their algorithms to anyone who wants to download it." __________________ Kimmy

03-09-2007, 01:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
Kimmy Blonde Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a House at the end of my street... My Treo: Treo 650 Posts: 865 Thanks: 10 Thanked 20 Times in 17 Posts	__________________ Kimmy Last edited by Kimmy; 03-09-2007 at 01:21 AM.

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