Kurzweil, Raymond Pioneers History
Kurzweil, Raymond Pioneers History
Raymond C. Kurzweil is a pioneer in several areas of the computer industry involving mainly artificial intelligence (AI). He was the main developer of many firsts: omni-font optical character recognition (OCR) software, text-to-speech synthesizer and print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, charge coupled device (CCD) flat-bed scanner, commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software, electronic keyboard music synthesizer able to emulate the sounds of orchestra instruments such as grand pianos.Awards and Honors; national, international: Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, September 2002. Lemelson-MIT Prize, $500,000, US largest award in invention and innovation, 2001. National Medal of Technology, 1999, US’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in White House ceremony. Dickson Prize 1994 (Carnegie Mellon University, top science prize). Engineer of the Year, Design News. Inventor of the Year, MIT. Grace Murray Hopper Award, Association for Computing Machinery. Honorary Doctorates and honors (12) from 3 U.S. presidents. Film awards, 7 national and international.
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KurzweilAI.net - News, analysis, and essays on emerging trends in many technologies: AI, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, life extension, related areas.
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Raymond Kurzweil - Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence - By Ray Kurzweil; Penguin, 2000, ISBN 0140282025. Description, and comments by technology celebrities.
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Ray & Terry's Longevity Products - Firm sells nutrient supplements (vitamins, minerals, herbs) for longevity program documented in Ray Kurzweil, Terry Grossman book: Fantastic Voyage.
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Ray Kurzweil: Life in the Future - Will new technologies fundamentally change what it means to be human? Inventor and author discusses technology change and effects on everything from health to artificial intelligence. Audio file. [NPR]
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Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. - Research, development and marketing firm. Technologies: pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, signal processing, simulating natural processes, related.
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Ray Kurzweil - Substantial interview on The Singularity is Near, with informative graphs. [InstaPundit]
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Singularity: Ubiquity Interviews Ray Kurzweil - Substantive, meaty, medium long. [ACM: Ubiquity]
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Winners' Circle: Raymond Kurzweil - Biographic announcement of 2001 Lemelson-MIT Prize. [MIT]
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The Smartest (or the Nuttiest) Futurist on Earth - Article on Kurzweil and his forcasts: in a few decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots in our bloodstreams, and be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer. Fortune.
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National Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor Profile - Brief biographic highlights, inducted 2002. [Invent Now]
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ACM: Fellows Award: Raymond Kurzweil - Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professional of 1978, based on one major technical or service contribution. Kurzweil developed unique reading machine for blind to read printed pages aloud, via program rules to reliably, auto
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Singularity is Near - By Raymond Kurzweil; Viking Press, 2005, ISBN 0670033847. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, news, press reviews, biography.
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Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever - By Raymond Kurzweil, Terry Grossman, M.D.; Rodale Books, 2004, ISBN 1579549543. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, health research and news, press reviews, biography.
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Artificial Intelligence - Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was online to answer questions on the Singularity theory: an era where humans and technology converge. Needs free registration.
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