BS 139 Jeff Hawkins from Numenta
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Hawkins founded Numenta in 2005, shortly after publishing his best seller "On Intelligence." Numenta's goal is to create a computer model of how the human cortex functions and more importantly advance our theoretical understanding of why it has the structure that it does. In BS 139 Hawkins describes some of his team's latest research and some exciting new ideas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Brain Science, the show for everyone who has brain. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 139. |
| 0:12.0 | Ever since I launched brain science back in 2006, my goal has been to |
| 0:18.5 | explore how recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brains make us human. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm really excited about today's interview because in some ways it takes us back to the beginning. My guest today is Jeff Hawkins, |
| 0:36.0 | author of on intelligence and founder of Numenta, a company that is dedicated to discovering |
| 0:42.0 | how the human cortex works. |
| 0:45.0 | Jeff's book actually inspired the first brain science podcast |
| 0:49.0 | and I interviewed him way back in episode 38. Today he gives us an update on the last 15 years |
| 0:56.6 | of his research. As always episode show notes and transcripts are available at brainscience podcast.com. You can send me |
| 1:05.6 | feedback at brain science podcast at gmail dot com or audio feedback via |
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| 1:16.3 | forward slash Doc Artemis. |
| 1:19.0 | I will be back after the interview |
| 1:21.0 | to review the key ideas and to share a few brief announcements |
| 1:25.2 | including a look forward to next month's episode. |
| 1:28.8 | Jeff it is great to have you back on brain science. |
| 1:35.6 | It's great to be back to enjoy. |
| 1:37.6 | I always enjoy talking to you. |
| 1:39.0 | It's actually been over nine years since we last talked. So I thought we would start by asking you to just |
| 1:46.8 | give my audience a little bit of background and I'd like you to start by |
| 1:50.9 | telling us just a little bit about your career before Newmenta. |
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