Hands on the future

Jeff Hawkins '79, the entrepreneur who founded Palm Computing and Handspring and was the architect of many successful hand-held computers, gives the Faculty of Computing and Information Distinguished Lecture, April 17, in Statler Auditorium. Hawkins described his work in modeling neo-cortical brain function and explained why he thinks the field will emerge as a new computation paradigm in the next few years. Nicola Kountoupes/University Photography