Facts: - known for: co-founder of palm and handspring - caption: hawkins at etech 2007 - birth name: jeffrey hawkins - birth date: 01 june 1957 - name: jeff hawkins - occupation: businessperson - image: jeff hawkins by jeff kubina.jpeg - birth place: huntington , new york , u.s. - alma mater: cornell university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jeff hawkins .
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jeffrey hawkins -lrb- ; born june 1 , 1957 -rrb- is the american founder of palm computing -lrb- where he invented the palm pilot -rrb- and handspring -lrb- where he invented the treo -rrb- .he has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time , founded the redwood center for theoretical neuroscience -lrb- formerly the redwood neuroscience institute -rrb- in 2002 , founded numenta in 2005 and published '' on intelligence '' describing his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain .in 2003 he was elected as a member of the national academy of engineering '' for the creation of the hand-held computing paradigm and the creation of the first commercially successful example of a hand-held computing device . ''hawkins also serves on the advisory board of the secular coalition for america and offers advice to the coalition on the acceptance and inclusion of nontheism in american life .