Jeff Hawkins — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founder of Palm Computing, co-creator of the PalmPilot and Palm Treo.
Founded Redwood Neuroscience Institute in 2002.
Co-founder of Numenta in 2005, leading efforts to reverse-engineer the neocortex for machine intelligence.
Author of "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence" (2021).
Co-author of "On Intelligence" (2004), explaining his memory-prediction framework.
Developed the GridPad, one of the first tablet computers, at GRiD Systems in 1989.
Received a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1979.

Biography

Jeff Hawkins is an American businessman, computer scientist, neuroscientist, and engineer. He began his career at GRiD Systems in 1982, where he developed rapid application development (RAD) software called GRiDtask. As vice president of research from 1988 to 1992, he led the pen-based computing initiative that resulted in the GridPad in 1989, recognized as one of the first tablet computers.

In January 1992, Hawkins founded Palm Inc., and later co-created the PalmPilot and Palm Treo.