DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar: Jeff Hawkins - Founder, Numenta and PalmOne

Jeff Hawkins is the architect of many computer products including the PalmPilot, Visor, and Treo families of handheld computers and smartphones. He co-founded Palm Computing and Handspring Inc., and currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at palmOne, Inc., the company created through the merger of Palm and Handspring.

In 2002, Hawkins created the Redwood Neuroscience Institute (RNI) to pursue his lifelong passion to learn how the brain works. Hawkins continues to serve as a director of RNI. Hawkins' neuroscience research culminated in the publishing of a book with New York Times Science writer, Sandra Blakeslee, called On Intelligence.

Hawkins holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Hawkins is a member of the scientific board of directors at Cold Spring Harbor Labs, one of the world's leading biological research laboratories. Hawkins was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

What is ETL?

The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

The seminar is free and open to public. It also functions as a class called "Management Science and Engineering 472".