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Science advances faster when researchers can verify each other’s results. However, this is easier said than done, as evident by the long-standing issue about reproducibility of scientific research. This widespread “reproducibility crisis” has been featured in newspapers, magazines, education-related publications, and scientific journals. According to a survey conducted by Nature...

Luiz Scheinkman•Software Architect

We all have them yet rarely need to think about them: a blind spot, or scotoma, in scientific language. A blind spot is a gap in our vision, created by our own anatomy. At the point where the optic nerve attaches to the back of the eyeball is a section that cannot detect light. Yet, we don’t walk around perceiving gaps in our vision. We don’t see dark spots everywhere we look. So what’s going on?...

Christy Maver•VP of Marketing

In our recent manuscript, titled Why Does the Neocortex Have Layers and Columns, A Theory of Learning the 3D Structure of the World, we introduced a new theory of how the brain makes predictive models of objects. We proposed that the brain pairs sensory data with location data to perform object recognition. After reading our manuscript, a friend of the company, Hans-Poul Veldhuyzen van Zanten, emailed us with the observation that our theory was compatible with an ancient memorization system known as the “method of loci.”...

Christy Maver•VP of Marketing

This time each year we create a plan for the coming fiscal year, ending each June. The plan includes how we allocate our time and budget. This year (fiscal year ending June 30, 2018) we are shifting our priorities more than most years, and I thought I would share those changes....

Jeff Hawkins•Co-Founder

Our co-founder, Jeff Hawkins, was invited to write an article for a special edition of IEEE Spectrum, the flagship magazine and website of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His piece, What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn from the Neocortex, makes the case for...

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

A couple months ago, one of our engineers had an idea: What if we could dedicate a day or two to work on a Numenta project that may be outside our day-to-day responsibilities? From that, the first Internal Numenta Hackathon was born....

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

Sitting at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science, we encounter interest in our work from a variety of people. For the scientific and academic community, we have a growing list of peer-reviewed papers. The machine learning and data science enthusiasts can dive into our open source code and experiment with it firsthand. But what about those of us with no exposure to neuroscience...

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

We recently began a Visiting Scholar Program, where researchers and professors can spend some time at our offices and learn about HTM in depth. Designed to promote collaboration, participants play an active part in our research meetings while continuing their normal research. To give you a better understanding of this new program, I interviewed our first visiting researcher, Mirko Klukas, and asked him about his time spent at Numenta. ...

Numenta•Christy Maver & Mirko Klukas

The mission of Numenta is to discover the computational principles of the neocortex, the seat of intelligence in our brain. We believe this endeavor requires a detailed understanding of experimental neuroscience...

Yuwei Cui•Research Engineer

Tom Stoppard’s new play, The Hard Problem, poses the following question: are brains just collections of cells that can be explained in a scientific fashion, or is there something separate called the “mind” that explains consciousness?...

Donna Dubinsky•CEO & Co-Founder

Last year we felt that it was important to communicate our theories and engage in a dialog with the scientific community. As such, we decided to submit our research for peer-review, and to publish our work in major neuroscience-related...

Brev Patterson•Engineering & Design

I was asked to explore various questions, including what is machine intelligence technology based on neocortical theory, why is it important, how and why does it work, and where will it take us?...

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

MLconf Technical Chair Nick Vasiloglou recently interviewed one of our engineers, Austin Marshall, about HTM and our approach in this space. In their conversation, Nick asks Austin about a variety of topics - from AI to...

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

It’s been a few months since we first launched HTM Studio and things have calmed down from a development perspective. I sat down with Marion Le Borgne, project manager and lead engineer for HTM Studio, to get her thoughts on the process and efforts it took to build the application....

Numenta•Marion Le Borgne & Taylor Wirfs

If you’ve been to numenta.com before you may notice that something looks a little – or perhaps more than a little – different. After months of behind the scenes remodeling, we’ve launched our newly designed website....

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

But it did come as a surprise to hear that the interview was with Yang Lan, a prominent broadcast journalist and figure who has been referred to as the Oprah of China. She hosts several TV talk shows, is the cofounder and...

Taylor Wirfs•Marketing

The wait is over! We are proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Numenta Anomaly Benchmark (NAB) Competition, held in conjunction with IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence....

Zuha Agha•Algorithms Intern

This week I received an email from a gentleman in Japan. He was creating materials for a course and asked permission to include an extensive passage...

Jeff Hawkins•Co-Founder

Eric Jonas and Konrad Kording just released a provocative paper, "Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?". In their paper, they ask whether current neuroscience techniques could discover the operations of a simple microprocessor....

Subutai Ahmad•VP of Research

Earlier this month, I attended the annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting (Cosyne) in Salt Lake City. Cosyne is a peer reviewed scientific conference that brings experimental and theoretical neuroscientists together to exchange data and ideas....

Yuwei Cui•Research Engineer

While Numenta may not be in the business of selling traditional products, we are in the business of making our technology pervasive. To that end, we build sample applications that demonstrate the value of HTM...

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

We are excited to announce the Numenta Anomaly Benchmark (NAB) Competition! Last year, we released NAB, the first ever open-source benchmark for evaluating real-time anomaly detection algorithms. This year, we want to further expand NAB...

Taylor Wirfs•Marketing

This morning, as Hollywood anxiously awaited to hear the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards, another set of winners was recognized – not for motion pictures, but for artificial intelligence....

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

We are frequently asked how we distinguish our technology from others. This task is made difficult by the fact that there is not an agreed vocabulary; everybody uses the above terms (and other associated terms) differently...

Numenta•Jeff Hawkins & Donna Dubinsky

Earlier this month, we ran a contest for our developer community to use our algorithms on real world problems. The contest, called the HTM Challenge, was conceived by Matt Taylor, our community flag-bearer, as a way to enable the...

Donna Dubinsky•CEO

Numenta has held five hackathons over the past several years to engage our community of dedicated and passionate HTM enthusiasts. It's been a great time for lots of people involved. We've grown together and created some really interesting things!...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

In this post, I’d like to tell you about some changes and updates to our open source and commercial licensing strategy. First, effective today, we will be using the AGPL open source license instead of...

Donna Dubinsky•CEO

This past month, Numenta sponsored a contest at Yale University, in collaboration with the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, for a prize to create an application using our HTM technology....

Donna Dubinsky•CEO

Data is in ever-increasing supply as sensors inhabit more and more of our world. Examples abound from health data tracked by pacemakers and fitness wearables, to temperature sensors...

Alexander Lavin•Software Engineer

This year’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks was a cliffhanger. In fact, the twists and turns in the last few minutes had a significant effect on our result...

Numenta•Subutai Ahmad & Ryan McCall

Around this time of year the US goes crazy over the Super Bowl. So be it, but did you ever think the Super Bowl could help you understand how your brain works? Well, it can!...

Numenta•Subutai Ahmad & Ryan McCall

Using the burnrate custom metrics script with your Grok server...

Joe Block•Site Reliability Engineer

At Numenta, we are working on a next-generation machine intelligence algorithm that learns complex patterns through active exploration. The stream of sensory inputs is actively generated by execution of a series of motor commands. We call...

Yuwei Cui•Research Intern

I am pleased to tell you about a change we recently made to our research process. We have made our day to day experimental code public. We've already released our commercial HTM algorithm code to the...

Subutai Ahmad•VP Research

Using Grok's custom metrics, I sampled and fed AWS burnrate statistics into Grok for regional burnrates as well as instance counts. Since AWS instances vary in pricing, spinning up one EC2 I2-8xlarge instance could be just as much of a...

Jared Weiss•Engineering Intern

Late last year we shipped our first product, Grok for IT Analytics on AWS. Since then, we’ve released several enhancements for the product, including the recent version 1.5 with a new web charting feature....

Donna Dubinsky•CEO

On the other hand, HTM machine intelligence – like your brain – comprises a single underlying processing method that is extensible across a wide range of applications. Over the course of this summer alone, we have used our underlying...

Nick DeFalco•Marketing Intern

I saw a notification from Grok that our web server auto scaling group (ASG) was acting anomalously. At first I thought it was only because we were heavier...

Joe Block•Site Reliability Engineer

I decided to apply Grok and the Cortical Learning Algorithm to stock data: have the CLA learn patterns and alert me to anomalies. I decided to monitor volume...

Viraj Sinha•Engineering Intern

Like most engineering managers, I like to know when someone is manually touching one of our servers. That’s especially true for production systems, but also...

Jared Casner•Director, Product Development

My smartphone buzzed: Grok had sent an alert. I know that with Grok it just takes a few seconds to check things out, so I clicked on the notification graph...

Subutai Ahmad•VP Research

I’ve written a paper that explains how we have applied the science of the CLA to the technology of anomaly detection. It illustrates how a simple-to-use product...

Jeff Hawkins•Founder

For a company that is launching its first product, we have an unusual number of terms and names, including Numenta, Grok, HTM, and NuPIC. This abundance of names reflects our unusual mission....

Donna Dubinsky•CEO

Representations are patterns in a computer or a brain that represent something in the real world. They are building blocks to understanding our world, that...

Rob Haitani•Marketing

Streaming data is the future of data. Businesses need real-time solutions that can keep up with the accelerating pace and scale of information they are...

Rahul Agarwal•Engineering

A question we get from time to time is, “How is Grok different from complex event processing systems?” Like Grok, CEP systems are all about streaming data...

Joe Hayashi•Marketing

Last month the Obama administration announced a new ten year $3B science initiative called the "Brain Activity Map Project" (BAM). The ultimate goal is...

Jeff Hawkins•Founder

I am often asked, "Is Numenta’s Hierarchical Temporal Memory a neural network?" The short answer to this question is "Yes," but the problem with this short...

Jeff Hawkins•Founder

We promised to explain how the Sparse Football Pool relates to the brain, the CLA (Numenta's Cortical Learning Algorithm) and Intelligence. The CLA relies on...

Subutai Ahmad•VP Research

Thanks to everyone for participating in the Sparse Football Pool! It was a tight race that, given the game, went down to the wire. The winner had a total...

Rob Haitani•Marketing

Did you ever think the Super Bowl could help you understand how your brain works? Numenta's core algorithm, the Cortical Learning Algorithmm (CLA) relies on the...

Subutai Ahmad•VP Research

We modeled Grok after the human brain because the brain is a predictive modeling system. This is the first post in a series describing what this...

Rob Haitani•Marketing

Will the future of machine intelligence lead to evil robots and a dystopian apocalypse? Or robotic butlers and immortal carriers of our memories? Berkeley...

Rob Haitani•Marketing

Jeff Hawkins recently gave a keynote address at Strange Loop 2012, a conference on diverse topics like emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency and distributed systems....

Rob Haitani•Marketing

This insightful tweet came from the Strangeloop keynote after Jeff Hawkins described Sparse Distributed Representations (SDRs). This isn't the first time...

Ian Danforth•Engineering

This week Jeff Hawkins will present two talks in the prestigious Berkeley Hitchcock Lectures series. We're proud of the recognition that Jeff's work has received in the academic community....

Rob Haitani•Marketing

But a major shift is underway. "The arrival of the Internet and web has added a new dimension, bringing in an era of entirely digital business. Customer...

Rob Haitani•Marketing

Years ago, a retiring artificial intelligence researcher told Jeff Hawkins that "one of biggest problems in AI--no, the only problem in AI--is the problem of representation." If the meaning of that statement isn't intuitively obvious...

Rob Haitani•Marketing

There is a well known truism in machine learning, the "No Free Lunch Theorem," which states that no algorithm is inherently better than any other algorithm....

Subutai Ahmad•VP Research

Today we hear so much about "big data" and the database tools you can use to sort through large amounts of data. However at Numenta we see a different future....

Jeff Hawkins•Founder