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It is my sincere pleasure today to introduce our very special guest.

To some of you, Jeff Hawkins might be a household name.

For those who don't know who he is, let me give you a little bit of background.

Jeff is the founder of Palm Computing.

In fact, he loves to joke that I'm still carrying around my Palm 5 in my purse.

If anyone wants to see a collector's item, I've got it with me. He also is a founder of Handspring.

And that would be enough, right, to found these two really terrific companies.

But beyond that, Jeff is also an avid neuroscientist. He has taught himself how the brain works. Can you believe that?

And he is basically so talented in this area that he wrote a book called On Intelligence.

How many of you have read the book on Intelligence? It is terrific. I love it. As a neuroscientist myself,

I would tell you, it is really, really wonderful.

And in fact, Jeff now started a new company just a few years ago called Numenta

that is building software based on the theories that he proposed in his book on intelligence.

So without further ado, I'm going to invite Jeff up here to tell us his story.

Oh, okay.

Thanks.

Thanks, Tina.

Thanks, Tina.

You know, when Tina, a couple months ago, Tina asked if I'd come and give this talk, and I'd

say, did you know, did I give this talk once before?

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