On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

Author:   Hawkins, Jeff ,  Sandra Blakeslee
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
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9780805078534


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 August 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Hawkins, Jeff ,  Sandra Blakeslee
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.245kg
ISBN:  

9780805078534


ISBN 10:   0805078533
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 August 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines.--John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain.--James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. --James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. --Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. --John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. --James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. -- Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. --John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. --James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. --Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. -- John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schr& ouml; dinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. --James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. --Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. -- John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & amp; Byers On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. --James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. --Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. -- John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers


On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schr&ouml;dinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. <br>--James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology <br> Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. <br>--Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle <br> Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. <br>-- John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers<br>


On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodinger's 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain. --James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation. --Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the world's foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines. -- John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers


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Jeff Hawkins is one of the most successful and highly regarded computer architects and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. He founded Palm Computing and Handspring, and created the Redwood Neuroscience Institute to promote research on memory and cognition. Also a member of the scientific board of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, he lives in northern California. Sandra Blakeslee has been writing about science and medicine for The New York Times for more than thirty years and is the co-author of Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran and of Judith Wallerstein's bestselling books on psychology and marriage. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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