Brain work

摘要

Jeff Hawkins got the neuroscience bug in 1979, but it took him many years and two inventions — the Palm Pilot and the Treo smartphone — to put his passion into action. His career arc illustrates how technological acumen and a theoretical mindset can foster one another: both his devices use pattern matching and computational decision-making algorithms that mimic theories of how a brain works.rnAs an undergraduate at Cornell University, Hawkins was impressed with a Scientific American article by Nobel laureate Francis Crick.