New Silicon Valley company to focus on Artificial Intelligence

March 24, 2005 | Matt Marshall

Mercury News today has a story about how Palm co-founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky are starting a new company that would enable brain-like computing. Some of the ideas were outlined earlier in Hawkins’ book “On Intelligence.”

The self-funded Menlo Park venture has only four employees, and its research may not show up in the products of its customers for a couple of years. Its ambitions, however, are gargantuan. Hawkins, 47, is attempting one of the largest overhauls in computer design in decades. If he succeeds, computers might really function like brains. That would allow them to mimic human sight and solve problems beyond the reach of today’s computers.

The New York Times has a story too.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.