Jeff Hawkins' On Intelligence  Sam Beebout's picture   I found
Hawkins’ arguments in On Intelligence exciting because they
overlapped so much with the themes we have discussed in the
course. The subtitle of On Intelligence is: How A New
Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly
Intelligent Machines.  As the title gives away, Hawkins’ project
is to define intelligence as an engineered process. Hawkins
comes from an unconventional context for studying the brain
because his primary area of expertise is computer technology and
engineering. Hawkins is the mind behind the program Graffiti
that allows people to write on a screen with a stylus as well as
the popular palm pilot Treo.  Hawkins was motivated to write
this book because of his frustration that the fields of computer
science and neuroscience have not been combined because both
fields are too self-righteous. Computer scientists, Hawkins
explains, aren’t interested in understanding how the brain works
because they see it as an inefficient