About the Book: On Intelligence
From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of
intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machinesJeff
Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld
devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to
revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new
understanding of intelligence itself. Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how
the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how,
based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines. The brain
is not a computer, but a memory system that