• Control center of the central nervous system
• Consists of three parts
  • Forebrain: Higher functions (thought, reason, abstraction) → consciously controlled
  • Midbrain & Hindbrain: Lower functions (heartbeat, body temperature) → unconsciously controlled

• Lower part of the brain
• Midbrain is part of Brainstem
• Connected to spinal cord
• „Interface“ to body
• All information passes through the brain stem

• Part of the front brain
• represents 60-75% of the brain
• the so called new brain
• size off about 1000cm²
• 2-3 mm thick
• holds about 30 billion neurons
• General functions:
  • Sensory perception
  • Generation of motor commands
  • Spatial reasoning
  • Conscious
  • Thought
  • Language

• Born July 9, 1933 in London
• Famous neurologist
• Wrote several books about his patients
  • Awakenings (Movie with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro)
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

• Born *1957 in New York
• Graduated as electrical engineer at Cornell University
• Co-Founder of Palm Inc., Handspring and Numenta
• Developed products like the Palm One and the Treo mobile phone
• Founder of the The Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
• Generally interested in neuroscience
• His goal is to understand the brain to build intelegent machines
• Concerning to him there are no theories of how the brain works

• Hawkins, Jeff (2006). Die Zukunft der Intelligenz, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, ISBN 0-3499-62167-3

Original edititon:

• Hawkins, Jeff (2005). On intelligence, Times Books, Henry Holt and Co., ISBN 0-8050-7456-2

• Sacks, Oliver (2001). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, MacMillan, ISBN 0-3302-9491-1

• Wikipedia article about Jeff Hawkins
• Numenta - Hierarchical Temporal Memory System
• Jeff Hawkins - Wie funktioniert das Gehirn Abstract of presentation in german, presentation in english