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Why We Wrote a Paper About a PaperLast month, Numenta released a major new theory for intelligence and cortical computation, documenting the theory in a research paper and making it available on a preprint server while it undergoes peer-review. We also created a “companion piece” to the research paper. What’s a companion piece and why did we write it? How did two non-neuroscientists write a paper about a neuroscience paper? In this blog post, we’ll take you behind the scenes to show you how and why it happened....
Donna Dubinsky and Christy Maver•Numenta
A Framework for Intelligence, A Commitment to Open ScienceFollowing a recent New York Times story on Numenta and co-founder Jeff Hawkins, VP of Research Subutai Ahmad lays out Numenta's framework for Open Science and collaboration that the company has been developing over the last five years. Read the blog to learn about Numenta's practices, some of which are standard practices at Universities and some of which are highly unusual....
Subutai Ahmad•VP of Research
Q&A with Bill Zemlak, CEO of Intelletic Trading Systems (ITS)Intelletic Trading Systems LLC (ITS) became a commercial licensee of Numenta in May 2018. They use HTM to develop a fully autonomous trading platform for futures and other financial instruments. In this post, Christy Maver interviews Bill Zemlak, the CEO of ITS, about how they’re using HTM, the results they’ve seen so far, and what’s ahead for the company....
Christy Maver•VP of Marketing
How Did The Neocortex Evolve? Numenta Research May Provide a ClueLearn how Numenta's research provides insights into the evolution of the neocortex and discover how the neocortex's location-based framework may be central to learning....
Scott Purdy•Research Staff Member
Thalamus SnubbedThe thalamus is an often overlooked part of the brain, but over the last few decades, scientists have discovered a wealth of information about it. This blog post will cover how the thalamus works and the surprising but critical role it plays in intelligent function....
Subutai Ahmad•VP of Research