Ray Kurzweil
| Ray Kurzweil | |
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Kurzweil on or prior to July 5, 2005
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| Born |
Raymond Kurzweil February 12, 1948 Queens, New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.) |
| Occupation | Author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor |
| Employer | Google Inc. |
| Spouse(s) | Sonya Rosenwald Fenster (1975–present) |
| Awards |
Grace Murray Hopper Award (1978) National Medal of Technology (1999) |
| Website | Official website |
Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (/ˈkɜːrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurism, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.
Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first charge-coupled device flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first commercial text-to-speech synthesizer, the Kurzweil K250 music synthesizer capable of simulating the sound of the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
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