Fri, 30 May 2008  Episode 38 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Jeff Hawkins, author of "On Intelligence." Hawkins is well-known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring. He invented the Grafitti handwriting recognition system and helped develop the Palm Trio SmartPhone. Since he published his bestseller "On Intelligence" he has worked full-time on his passion for neuroscience. His current company, Numenta, is developing software that models the hierarchal structure of the neocortex. In this interview we talk about the ideas in Hawkins book and how he is applying them to develop a computer model of cortical function. This is a follow-up to Episode 2, which first aired in December of 2006.For show notes, links, and references please visit our website at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/. Send email to docartemis at gmail.com/. Participate in the Discussion Forum at http://brainscienceforum.com/. Comments[1] |
As a long-time Palm user, and still a "the brain is a computer" thinker, I found it interesting that the neural-net processing of recognition (pattern matching) is similar to how a Palm (and probably others) recognizes handwriting: one pass records raw screen touch events, another pass connects these together to form stroke events, another combines stroke events and other state (shift, etc) into glyph events, and yet another that matches these to handwriting templates to produce (eg) an "A" event, which may be recognized by the program or the GUI into a command or enter a character into a form.
Yes, I'm still not caught up to real time, but enjoying these podcasts!
Yes, I'm still not caught up to real time, but enjoying these podcasts!
posted by: Dennis Rockwell on Wed, 7/29 02:06 PM EDT
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