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THE INSTITUTE FOR NEURAL COMPUTATION
Annual Rockwood Memorial Lecture And
Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecture
Jeff Hawkins
Founder, Palm, Inc. Handspring, and Numenta
When:
11:00AM, Monday, April 21, 2008
Where:
CalIT2 Auditorium
"Computing Beyond Turing: How neocortical theory is shaping the future of computing"
Coaxing computers to perform basic acts of perception and robotics, let alone high-level thought, has been difficult. No existing computer can recognize pictures, understand language, or navigate through a cluttered room with anywhere near the facility of a child. Hawkins and his colleagues have developed a model of how the neocortex performs these and other tasks. The theory, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory, explains how the hierarchical structure of the neocortex builds a model of its world and uses this model for inference and prediction. To turn this theory into a useful technology, Hawkins has created a company called Numenta. In this talk Hawkins will describe the theory, its biological basis, and a software platform created by Numenta that allows anyone to apply this theory to a variety of problems. Part of this theory was described in Hawkins' 2004 book, On Intelligence. Further information can be found at www.Numenta.com.
The Rockwood Memorial Lectures are endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Rockwood in memory of their late son, Paul, who received a B.S. in Computer Science from UCSD in 1980 and then obtained a second degree B.A. in Psychology in 1981. In 1983 he stared a company, Integral Solutions, to develop a universal language translation, but died tragically in a mountaineering accident before he could fulfill his promise.
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