Jeff Hawkins ( born Jeff Hawkins ; June 1, 1957 ) is the founder of Palm Computing (inventor of Palm Pilot ) and Handspring (inventor of Treo ). After these two extremely successful projects, he quit his job and went into neurology. In 2002, he founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (formerly the Redwood Neuroscience Institute ) and published a book on Intelligence , in which he described his brain theory based on the memory-prediction model. In 2003, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences “for the creation of the hand-held computing paradigm and the creation of the first commercially successful example of a hand-held computing device” (for creating the Handheld PC paradigm and its first commercially successful implementation).
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| Date of Birth | June 1, 1957 (aged 62) |
| Place of Birth | New York , USA |
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Biography
Books
- Jeff Hawkins co-authored with Sandra Blakesley (2005). On intelligence , Times Books, Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0-8050-7456-2