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
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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).