Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins
Hawkins at eTech 2007
Born	Jeffrey Hawk Huntington, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Cornell University (BS) University of California, Berkeley
Occupation(s)	Businessperson, neuroscientist, engineer
Known for	Co-founder of Palm and Handspring

Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, neuroscientist and engineer. He co-founded Palm Computing — where he co-created the PalmPilot and Treo — and Handspring.^{[1][third-party source needed]}

He subsequently turned to work on neuroscience, founding the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002. In 2005 he founded Numenta, where he leads a team in efforts to reverse-engineer the neocortex and enable machine intelligence technology based on brain theory.^{[citation needed]}

He is the co-author of On Intelligence (2004), which explains his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain, and the author of A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (2021).