Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM)

ON Intelligence is an innovative book about a new theory of how intelligence actually works. You can join the discussion for this book here.

Based on the theory in this book, the author Jeff Hawkins invented a model "Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM)" to approach the implementation of intelligence. I found the essential property of HTM can inspire us to implement itself in some data-flow oriented programming language such as LabVIEW. Also I noticed the very useful relevance between genetic programming and HTM. I will take time to discuss it in more details.