#3 has a followup.

Numenta's recent newsletter...

Dear newsletter subscriber:

I am pleased to announce the availability today of the Research

Release of the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC). In

addition, today also marks the debut of our new web site that includes

many features focused on building a developer community.

I'm sure you're wondering, what does this mean, Research Release?

Perhaps you're also wondering, what does this mean, the Numenta

Platform for Intelligent Computing??

The Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing is a set of tools and a

runtime engine, including embedded learning algorithms, that enables

self-training and pattern recognition based on the theories of

hierarchical temporal memory (HTM). I recommend that you spend some

time at our web site to read the white papers and see the

presentations that explain this platform and this technology in depth.

The Research Release is a no-charge version of the Numenta Platform

for experimentation purposes. I invite you to read the note from Jeff

Hawkins (

http://www.numenta.com/for-developers/software/note-from-jeff.php ) on

our web site that describes what we are trying to accomplish in this

release, and who should consider downloading it. I also recommend

reading my entry in the Numenta blog (

http://www.numenta.com/for-developers/blog.php ) to explain the

license structure. Finally, once you've downloaded the release, be

sure to check out our web tools for developers, including a forum,

wiki's and a blog written by members of the Numenta team.

We welcome your participation in this community, but we must warn you

up front; the tools are new, the platform is young, and the concepts

are sometimes difficult. To make real progress, you can expect to

dedicate significant time to learning the material, and then applying

it to your problem domain. We hope that you will be an active

participant, sharing your work, reporting bugs, and contributing to

our forums.

There may be great effort required, but we believe that the pay-off

will be great as well. We feel confident in saying that HTM technology

will provide the foundation for the next generation of computing,

intelligent computing. We are pleased that our first generation

platform, NuPIC, affords you the opportunity to begin to experiment

with the platform, ultimately offering you the opportunity to create

powerful, new computing applications.

We look forward to hearing your feedback, your issues, and your

successes, as you being to work with NuPIC.

Regards,

Donna Dubinsky

CEO, Numenta