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+ - Why can't a computer be more like a brain?

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newtronic

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @10:02PM

newtronic writes "Jeff Hawkins, who founded Palm Computing, writes in IEEEE Spectrum, Why can't a computer be more like a brain? In this article, he brings us up to date with his latest endeavor, Numenta. He covers progress since his book On Intelligenceand gives details on Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) which is a platform for simulating neocortexial activity. Numenta has created a framework which allows anyone to build HTMs."

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