Patent No. 6, 000, 000 was awarded on Dec. 7, 1999, to 3Com for Jeff Hawkins and Michael Albanese's invention of "hot synchronization" technology for handhelds.
Jeff Hawkins, Numenta co-founder, and Michael Chui, a principal at the McKinsey Global Institute will discuss on Wednesday evening an alternative approach to big data, using brain-inspired machine learning technology and a cloud-based service called Grok that recognizes complex patterns from data streams and generates actionable predictions in real time.