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Computing Like the Brain
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Summary
Jeff Hawkins discusses 3 operating principles of the neocortex and introduces Grok, a predictive modeling product based on those principles.
Bio
Jeff Hawkins is a co-founder of Numenta. Previous to Numenta he founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute and two mobile computing companies, Palm and Handspring, where he was the architect of computing products such as the PalmPilot and Treo smartphone. In 2004 he wrote the book “On Intelligence” which describes progress in understanding the neocortex.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web. Strange Loop was created in 2009 by software developer Alex Miller and is now run by a team of St. Louis-based friends and developers under Strange Loop LLC, a for-profit but not particularly profitable venture.
Oct 19, 2012