About Numenta
Numenta was founded in 2005 by Jeff Hawkins, Dileep George and Donna Dubinsky. Hawkins is the author (with Sandra Blakeslee) of On Intelligence, which describes the theory of the neocortex used as the basis for Numenta’s technology. As Numenta's Chief Technology Officer, George drives the algorithm development which lies at the heart of the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) technology. Numenta is the third collaborative venture for Hawkins and Dubinsky who were co-founders of Palm Computing and Handspring.
Numenta introduced its first research release of the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC) to the developer community in March 2007. In June 2009, the company released version 1.7 of NuPIC along with a Vision Toolkit that allows non-programmers to experiment with creating, training and doing inference on HTM networks with image classification. Numenta continues to work both on advancing the core learning algorithms, as well as focusing in several application areas such as vision and prediction.
Numenta has fewer than twenty employees and has been privately funded by its founders, board members, and close associates.
Numenta headquarters are located in Redwood City, California.
