Numenta
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Numenta is a company founded March 24, 2005, by Palm founder Jeff Hawkins with his longtime business partner Donna Dubinsky and Stanford graduate student Dileep George. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
In the 2004 book On Intelligence, Hawkins and co-author Sandra Blakeslee explain a theory of the neocortex. This theory is the basis for Numenta's technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM).
According to the company's website, Numenta's name comes from "mentis", the Latin word for "mind".
[edit] External links
- Numenta Formed by Jeff Hawkins to Apply Neuroscience Research to Computing Problems
- Gartner Fellows Interview with Jeff Hawkins Founder of Numenta on 2 March 2006