Jul 23 2008
Ray Kurzweil
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Technology Pioneer and Inventor
Ray Kurzweil is one of the leading inventors of our time. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind and the first text-to-speech synthesizer. He also designed the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
“The ultimate thinking machine” Forbes
In detail
Among Ray’s many honours, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the World’s largest for innovation and in 1999 he received the National Medal of Technology, the USA’s highest honour in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. Most recently he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame, established by the US Patent Office in recognition of his inventions.
What he offers you
With unparalleled insights into what the future holds and how new technologies will affect the way we work and develop, Ray Kurzweil offers audiences an invaluable sneak preview of what is just around the technology corner.
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Topics
New Technologies
Innovation
Cybernetics
Future Trends
The Future of Humanity
Publications
2005
The Singularity is Near
2002
Are we Spiritual Machines?
1999
The Age of Spiritual Machines
1993
The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life
1990
The Age of Intelligent Machines
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