7 Quotes & Sayings By Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins is the Chairman and CEO of Numenta, Inc., a company he founded in 2004 to apply deep learning to the processing of information. He is also a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Hawkins received his Ph.D Read more

in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from UCLA.

He has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Fellow by AAAS, and Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Computer Society, as well as being an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London), The National Academy of Inventors, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (an honor bestowed on only five other Americans).

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I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex. Jeff Hawkins
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The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior. Jeff Hawkins
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I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains. Jeff Hawkins
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Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence. Jeff Hawkins
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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation. Jeff Hawkins
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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future. Jeff Hawkins