Preface

Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC)

NuPIC is Numenta’s Open Source Project and is the reference implementation of HTM and CLA. It has a vibrant community of almost 1000 mailing list members, drawn from industry, academia, and interested observers. Matt Taylor is Numenta’s full-time Community Flag Bearer and provides a friendly welcome to all comers.

You can get involved with NuPIC by visiting the NuPIC Community Website. We have three mailing lists:

  1. [nupic-theory] for those interested in the HTM and CLA theories and their place in neuroscience. Jeff is a regular contributor and answerer of questions.
  2. [nupic-discuss] for news and discussion of NuPIC and related subjects.
  3. [nupic-hackers] for people developing the NuPIC source code itself.

Clortex

Clortex is an Open Source Project started by Fergal Byrne. Clortex is based on Jeff Hawkins’ theories and Numenta’s official NuPIC project. I’m hoping to donate or merge Clortex into the NuPIC community as soon as it’s good enough.

You can get involved with Clortex by:

  1. Getting the code on the Clortex Github page at https://github.com/fergalbyrne/clortex
  2. Joining the Clortex Google Group
  3. Visiting and Liking the Clortex Facebook Page
  4. Getting updates on the blog
  5. emailing me at fergal@brenter.ie
  6. Following me (@fergbyrne) on Twitter
  7. Sharing a link to this book on LeanPub.com

In June 2014, I gave a talk on HTM, NuPIC, and Clortex at euroClojure in Krakow, Poland. You can watch it on Vimeo.

Credits

Thanks to LeanPub.com for creating a great platform for lean publishing.

Thanks also to all the great developers in the Clojure community, who have put together one of the best ecosystems for building sophisticated software and having fun at the same time.

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Introduction