Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
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Jeff Hawkins

Want to know one of the reason's why Palm, and now Handspring, were so successful so fast under Hawkins guidance? Read this article about Jeff's foray into the science of the brain. Make sure you read the last paragraph...

(I saw the link on the VC homepage and felt a link in the forum was appropriate.)

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
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for you lazy gits:

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Hawkins insists he isn�t abandoning Handspring and that he spends the bulk of his time at the company. But he hopes to complete his book and build a silicon machine modeled on pattern-completion memory. �I�m positive about the theory,� he says. �I�m more sure of this than anything else in my life

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Registered: Oct 1999
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Two years ago, Technology Review interviewed Hawkins on his theory of how the brain works, as well as how his insights relate to his development of the pattern classifier used in the Pilot's character recognition engine. Fascinating stuff.

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