birth_date known_for spouse article_title name occupation alma_mater
04 july 1955 ceo of palm and handspring and numenta len shustek donna dubinsky
 donna dubinsky businessperson yale university harvard business school
donna dubinsky

donna dubinsky -lrb- born july 4 , 1955 -rrb- is an american businesswoman who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants -lrb- pdas -rrb- serving as ceo of palm , inc. and co-founding handspring with jeff hawkins in 1995 .
dubinsky co-founded numenta in 2005 with hawkins and dileep george , based in redwood city , ca .
numenta was founded to develop machine intelligence based on the principles of the neocortex .
dubinsky currently serves as ceo and board chair of numenta .
dubinsky is a trustee of the computer history museum in mountain view , california and the peninsula open space trust .
she is also successor trustee for the yale corporation .
`` fortune '' nominated her , together with hawkins , to the innovators hall of fame , while `` time '' named the pair as part of its `` digital 50 '' in 1999 for their contribution to the development of the pda .
