Numenta

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 Redwood City, California.

Origin

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 the Latin mentis (“pertaining to the mind”) genitive of mēns (“mind”).

Products

The Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC) is a set of tools and a runtime engine, including embedded learning algorithms, that enables self-training and pattern recognition based on the theories of Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM).

The Research Release of NuPIC was announced on March 5, 2007.

A version for the Microsoft Windows operating system was announced on August 29, 2007.

External links

• Numenta website
• 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
• Wired magazine article underlying details and giving background information on Numenta.
• Guardian Newspaper 10 April 2008 article providing a general introduction to Numenta.
• "The Brainy Learning Algorithms of Numenta" December 2010 article in Technology Review