Le Electrical Engineering Times vient de publier une interview de Jeff Hawkins, le fondateur et actuel Chief Technical Officer de palmOne. Jeff explique les projets personnels sur lequel il travaille, notamment dans le secteur de l'intelligence artificielle. Il a d'ailleurs publié un livre On Intelligence qui traite de ses théories sur pourquoi les ordinateurs ne sont pas intelligents et comment nous pouvons commencer à construire des machines intelligentes basées sur ses concepts. Il aborde aussi très rapidement son job chez palmOne et notamment qu'il travaille sur le prochain produit révolutionnaire.
Pourquoi j'ai l'impression que palmOne n'est qu'un passe temps pour Jeff, et que la prochaine révolution c'est un Treo 650 avec WIFI. Allez Jeff, arrête de rêver et back to the drawing board!!
Merci à Ryan de Palminfocenter pour l'info
EE Times: Jeff Hawkins thinks he is on the verge of two breakthroughs. As chairman of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute (www.rni.org), where he spends half his time, Hawkins has helped prototype a novel computer vision system using an algorithm based on his theory of how the neocortex works. That algorithm could serve a wide array of applications and spawn a new direction in electronics, Hawkins believes.
EET: You say the next big thing will be machines that work like brains. Why?
Jeff Hawkins: It was clear to me 25 years ago that the brain works on a set of principles different from our everyday computers. Those principles produce amazing behaviors. Flies can fly better than any machine we ever made and are just that big [pinches fingers together]. [...] But as always in technology, when you come out with a whole new computing paradigm, it will blossom into a gazillion things people never thought of before
EET: And the larger goal?
Hawkins: I am on a mission to get an industry started and create a movement. I want a movement that's both academic and industrial, much like what happened with artificial intelligence, but based on the right science.
EET: How do you see your job as CTO for PalmOne?
Hawkins: I'm really a product guy. I tend to focus on the next big thing.
I was very involved in the Treo 600. I was almost not involved at all in the Treo 650. [Now] I am working on something else which is completely different. My value is trying to figure out how to get the next thing going.
