Jeff Hawkins — American Inventor born on June 01, 1957,

Jeffrey Hawkins is the American founder of Palm Computing and Handspring. He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time, founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002, founded Numenta in 2005 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.".. (wikipedia)

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.