팜 - 제프 호킨스

제프 호킨스 Jeff Hawkins(1957. 6. 1- )는 팜 컴퓨팅사를 설립해서 팜 기종을 팔았고, 핸드 스프링을 설립했고, 폴레오 Foleo로 지금의 넷북 노트북의 개념을 세계 최초로 제안하였다. 불행히도 500달러짜리 플레오는 사장되었지만, 지금 유행하는 9-10인치 화면 노트북들을 보면 그의 선견지명과 방향성을 알 수 있다. 그가 들고있는 플레오 - 그 당시에는 왜그리 볼품없는 스펙이었는지 모르겠는데, 지금은 바로 내가 가지고 싶은 노트북 사이즈아닌가!

1979년 코넬대학에서 전자공학 학사로 졸업. 인텔과 GRID 에서 일했다. 탠디사가 GRID사를 합병한 후, 지원하에 1992년 팜컴퓨팅 설립했다. 첫번째 제품이 주머라는 태블랫 컴퓨터였는데 애플의 뉴우턴과 비슷한 시기에 등장하여 (PC 매거진에 특집이 실린 것이 기억난다.) 둘다 시장에서는 실패하였다. 그러나 핫싱크 소프트웨어를 개발하였고, 결국 모뎀 회사였던 US로보틱스 사의 지원으로 파일럿을 .1996년 제품화한다.

최근에는 뇌의 기능에 대한 흥미로 회사를 설립하고 연구소를 UC 버클리에 두고 연구중이다. 한마디로 역시 천재!

He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time, founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (formerly the Redwood Neuroscience Institute) in 2002, and published On Intelligence describing his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain. In 2003 he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for the creation of the hand-held computing paradigm and the creation of the first commercially successful example of a hand-held computing device."

by Tim Bajarin

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As head of the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC), former MIT Media Director Nicholas Negroponte could be considered the father of the netbook. A tireless warrior, he's worked hard to get the OLPC designed and adopted for use in third-world countries to help children improve their educational process and give them a better chance in life. And, to be sure, the roots of the netbook can be traced to his efforts.

However, from an historical viewpoint, another key player more accurately projected the current concept of a netbook and how it would impact the market. Jeff Hawkins, the father of the PDA and early smartphones, the man who cofounded Palm Computing and introduced something called the Foleo 18 months ago, was also quite the visionary. You may remember that the Foleo was actually launched with much fanfare at the The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference in May of 2007, and it generated quite a buzz.

When the new management team came to Palm later that year, the Foleo was killed. But if you think about the Foleo today, especially its design and communications goal, you not only see how current netbooks were influenced by Jeff's product but also where they're heading—and how they could potentially rewrite the concept of mobile computing.

The Foleo itself looked a lot like today's netbooks, with its use of a Linux OS and a customized user interface that included a browser and mini-applications for some level of productivity. Also, the Foleo was designed as a companion to a Palm smartphone; it even would have used the smartphone's GSM radio to connect to the Internet. Jeff saw that a smartphone's small screen and limited keyboard would never allow a person to do "real work;" a user would need some type of companion device to be really productive.

The problem was, the $499 Foleo was actually quite underpowered compared with the Atom-based netbooks on the market today—and more expensive. The decision to kill it made sense, but had Palm evolved the Foleo, perhaps it could have played the role that ASUS has assumed in pushing netbooks into the mainstream. And maybe Palm could have reaped the benefits of this hot market opportunity.

I've known Hawkins since 1989 when he was at GRiD, and I'm convinced that he's a visionary. As he explained his thinking and the logic behind the creation of the original Palm PDA, I saw in him a great propensity to envision what customers will eventually want in a product. Similarly, before he launched the Handspring smartphone, the idea of a smartphone wasn't on anybody else's radar. That's why, when he showed me the Foleo, I was bullish about the idea. I had come to trust Jeff's ability to see the future before anyone else.

But it was in linking the wireless radio to the Foleo that his visionary prowess really came out. The more I talk with folks working on next-gen netbooks, the more I realize that a netbook's real value may lie in persistent connectivity. Sure, it's similar to an iPhone and some of the other smartphones, but we all know that smartphones aren't optimal for taking extensive notes, writing longer e-mails, or even watching lengthy videos, and we long for something like a netbook for these types of tasks.

Many people are wondering whether netbooks will eventually be sold by the wireless carriers as part of a subsidized package—and positioned as "maxi" phones. Indeed, in some parts of the world, carriers are already doing this. In Sweden, a person can get a monthly all-you-can-eat data plan for about $30 and for another $30 or so per month, you also get a laptop with a wireless chip built in. And in Malaysia, carriers have a similar low-cost data plan: Add $28 per month and you can get a netbook as part of the deal.

It's unclear when U.S. wireless carriers will move in a similar direction, but I see a real trend around Jeff Hawkins's original concept of tying netbook-like devices to wireless WAN chips. So when netbook vendors and the carriers make oodles of dough from these devices in the future, I suggest they give a nod not only to Nicholas Negroponte but also to Jeff Hawkins. Jeff got the PDA and smartphone right well before anyone else, and it looks as if he may have done it again.

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• Page name: Jeff Hawkins
• Author: Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
• Date of last revision: 18 October 2008 07:57 UTC
• Date retrieved: 21 November 2008 14:59 UTC
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