Numenta is a company founded March 24, 2005, by Palm

Palm (PDA)

Palm handhelds were Personal Digital Assistants which ran the Palm OS. Palm devices have evolved from handhelds to smartphones which run Palm OS, WebOS, and Windows Mobile...

 founder Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins

Jeffrey Hawkins is the founder of Palm Computing and Handspring...

 with his longtime business partner Donna Dubinsky

Donna Dubinsky

Donna Dubinsky is a businesswoman who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995...

 and Stanford graduate student Dileep George. It is headquartered in Redwood City

Redwood City, California

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, California

California

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.

Origin

In the 2004 book On Intelligence

On Intelligence

On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines is a book by Palm Pilot-inventor Jeff Hawkins with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee. The book explains Hawkins' memory-prediction framework theory of the brain and describes...

, Hawkins and co-author Sandra Blakeslee explain a theory of the neocortex

Neocortex

The neocortex , also called the neopallium and isocortex , is a part of the brain of mammals. It is the outer layer of the cerebral hemispheres, and made up of six layers, labelled I to VI...

. This theory is the basis for Numenta's technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory

Hierarchical Temporal Memory

Hierarchical temporal memory is a machine learning model developed by Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George of Numenta, Inc. that models some of the structural and algorithmic properties of the neocortex. HTM is a biomimetic model based on the memory-prediction theory of brain function described by Jeff...

 (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

Hierarchical Temporal Memory

Hierarchical temporal memory is a machine learning model developed by Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George of Numenta, Inc. that models some of the structural and algorithmic properties of the neocortex. HTM is a biomimetic model based on the memory-prediction theory of brain function described by Jeff...

 (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
  Technology Review
  Technology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1899 as "The Technology Review", and was re-launched without the "The" in its name on April 23, 1998 under then publisher R. Bruce Journey...