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Jeff Hawkins --- 脑神经科学的英雄

已有 5828 次阅读 2008-4-17 05:35 |个人分类:见贤思齐|系统分类:人物纪事|关键词:学者

Sometimes I am quite puzzled to realize that some big technological leaps were made by some university drop-outs: Bill Gates for Microsoft, Steve Jobs for Apple, here Jeff Hawkins for Palm (one brand of handheld computer). He dropped off from the PhD program of UC Berkeley just because he would not give up his research which Berkeley t had no lab for him then. Maybe it is just like what Confucius said: “so-so people can not do sth bad; they can not do good things, either”. Only those guys who cherish their dreams and hold dear of their ideal dearly can really do sth great.

 

In order to do his research, he decided to go to the industry to earn enough money and open his own lab. Twenty years later, he really made it. With the money he earn from Palm company, he set up his own lab called Redwood Neuroscience Institute and hire  a small group of people to do research of the intersection of neuroscience and computer science. He developed the theory of  “Hierarchical temporal memory” and decided that the best way to understand brain is to design something which could function like a brain.
 

It seems that the brain research may repeat the stories happened last century. When best scientists were developing the fluid dynamics theory to study how airplane can fly, it is the Wright Brothers who actually made it. Maybe understanding our brain will follow the same way.

Here is link of Jeff Hawkins from The Economist:

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789385



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