[ScottBurson]

What you have to factor in here is that people who consider themselves experts will often take a dim view of something new they don't understand, particularly if the work was done outside the system they're part of.

(A quote comes to mind: "The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." -- Admiral William Leahy to Harry Truman, concerning the atomic bomb.)

Numenta's technology is definitely novel. How well it will work remains to be seen, but I think it's a very interesting experiment.