Numenta - Jeff Hawkins’ brain replicator
Business 2.0 magazine writes about Jeff Hawkins’ new project. The creator of Palm is trying to approach the problem of intelligence and decision-making by replicating the processes involved in human brain. Numenta will be available to researchers at some point in March 2007, and you will have to pay only if you plan to use it for a commercial application:
He knows that he needs to build a community of developers around Numenta with financial incentives to help his technology succeed, just as he did at Palm. He toyed with making Numenta a nonprofit, like his Redwood Neuroscience Institute from which the company sprang, but ultimately decided against it. “If you have a technology and people think they can make money from it, you will get thousands of people working on it,” he explains.