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HTM School turned one this month, and it has accomplished a lot in its first year. With 47,000 views and counting, the series has gained a loyal following of eager students soaking up the relevant components of brain theory. As an HTM School student myself, one of the things that has intrigued me most has been the production and evolution of the series....

Christy Maver•Director of Marketing

Those of you subscribing to the nupic-theory mailing list are aware that a new research paper describing a mathematical model for the spatial pooler (SP) has emerged. Many of us have asked “What is the math behind the SP?”...

James Mnatzaganian•Community Contributor

There are two ways you can help decide who shines in the HTM Challenge. Please read below and help us out by voting for your favorite submissions....

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Community Flag-Bearer

The Numenta HTM Challenge is an online contest that starts today and runs util November 14th. Participants must come up with ideas for real-world applications of HTM technology and submit them....

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Community Flag-Bearer

In this post, I’d like to tell you about some changes and updates to our open source and commercial licensing strategy. First, effective today, we will be using the...

Donna Dubinsky•Co-Founder & CEO

Numenta recently open-sourced a bunch of product code. This includes the code for our most recent product, HTM for Stocks, and it also includes an extremely useful utility for running many anomaly detection...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

Until now, Java users of NuPIC had to be content with piecing together individual algorithmic components by supplying their own duct-tape, stitching and glue. This is no longer necessary, as the NAPI is very robust; has lots of...

David Ray•Community Contributor

They say in order to lead, one must have someplace to go. It's also true that in order to arrive, one must have departed from someplace (duh! :-P). In software optimization, knowing where it is one came from...

David Ray•Community Contributor

Bringing NuPIC to Java is an important milestone in NuPIC technology due to the size and significance of Java's user base. Because Java is the world's most used programming language, HTM now has the advantage...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

Hello NuPICers! I am introducing a nice tool for the NuPIC community. NuPIC Studio is a powerful all-in-one tool that allows users create an HTM network from scratch, train it...

David Ragazzi•Community Contributor

I think I say this after every NuPIC hackathon we host, but this hackathon was the best one yet! We had well over 50 participants, 16 demos, and a ton of fun and community bonding. It was really nice to see some new faces at this...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

I wanted to reengage our community members after a couple day of limited messages, so I asked everyone to introduce themselves, and we're getting some really fascinating...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

We have developed and open-sourced a project called the NuPIC Geospatial Tracking Application, which demonstrates how NuPIC can be used to provide anomaly indications for geospatial data....

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

We had a great hackathon event this past weekend. This was our third hackathon, and it resulted in the most hackers, the most hacks, and the most productive environment yet. Even if you could not attend, I hope the videos...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

Unfortunately, NuPIC was unable to participate in Google's Summer of Code program this year, but some of our community members suggested that we go ahead and host our own GSoC-like event, much like the KDE community does...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

We created the NuPIC open source environment with the desire to build a broad community to work on these algorithms, to advance the science, and to build applications that can integrate the technology into people's lives...

Donna Dubinsky•Co-Founder & CEO

Jeff Hawkins and Numenta VP of Engineering Subutai Ahmad will be at this event to go through the CLA Quiz, a serious of challenging questions about how NuPIC algorithms work...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

Last weekend's hackathon was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone for coming out. We gave several educational presentations and held some working sessions. The participation from the attendees was outstanding...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

At OSCON 2013 this past July, the Numenta team had the opportunity to give two presentations about cortical learning algorithms and NuPIC. Jeff Hawkins gave a short keynote talk entitled On Open Intelligence...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

We have made two small changes to our Contributor License regarding GitHub Usernames and Patent License changes, detailed below....

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

Recently one of our U.S. agencies, the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity), put out an RFI (request for information) stating they are interested in machine learning algorithms that are based on neuroanatomy...

Jeff Hawkins•Co-Founder

On April 24, 2013 Numenta hosted their first hackathon, a private event commemorating the recent release of NuPIC (Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing) to the OSS world....

Erik Blas•Community Contributor

It’s been exciting to see the early positive reaction to our NuPIC open source project (Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing). As part of the team that helped start this project, I’m optimistic that great work will come out of it...

Donna Dubinsky•Co-Founder & CEO

The first NuPIC Hackathon occurred over the past weekend, ending with eight demo applications from ten different participants. Even though there were some struggles getting NuPIC building and running on different platforms...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

We're having a NuPIC Hackathon on June 21, and we have about five spaces available for more participants. First come, first served! It will be in the San Francisco Bay Area...

Matthew Taylor•Open Source Manager

I started studying brain theory over thirty years ago. At that time most computer scientists didn’t think the brain was relevant to AI and most biologists thought the brain was so complicated that it would take hundreds of...

Jeff Hawkins•Co-Founder