About Numenta

Founded in 2005, Numenta is developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The applications of this technology are broad and can be applied to solve problems in computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning. The Numenta technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), is based on a theory of the neocortex described in Jeff Hawkins' book entitled On Intelligence (with co-author Sandra Blakeslee).

Numenta co-founder Dileep George extended the theory and implemented a mathematical formalism, demonstrating it is possible to express this new type of memory system in software. Numenta was formed to develop HTM technology and to promote its use.

Numenta is a technology platform provider rather than an application developer. The Company is creating a scalable software toolkit, called the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC) that will allow developers and partners to configure and adapt HTM systems to particular problems. Numenta's business focus will be the development of software tools, support services, and the licensing of intellectual property. Numenta will create a collaborative, developer community working on HTM technology. It may well take several years before products based on HTM systems are commercially available.

Numenta introduced a Research Release of NuPIC to the developer community in March 2007.

The founders of Numenta are Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky and Dileep George. Hawkins and Dubinsky were co-founders of Palm Computing and Handspring and have worked together for a dozen years. Hawkins is known as the architect of mobile computing products such as the PalmPilot and the Treo smartphone. Dubinsky was CEO of Palm and Handspring, and is CEO of Numenta. Dileep George has worked with Hawkins at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute since the summer of 2003 and has extended and formalized Hawkins' theory of the neocortex.

The Company is funded today by its founders, board members, and close associates. It is located in Menlo Park, California.