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       Ray Kurzweil
       By: DepletedSoul Date: August 13, 2017, 7:57 pm
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       [quote]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,[2] the first omni-font optical character
       recognition,[2] the first print-to-speech reading machine for
       the blind,[3] the first commercial text-to-speech
       synthesizer,[4] 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.[5]
       Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and
       Innovation, the United States' highest honor in technology, from
       President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He was the
       recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2001, the
       world's largest for innovation. And in 2002 he was inducted into
       the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S.
       Patent Office. He has received twenty-one honorary doctorates,
       and honors from three U.S. presidents. Kurzweil has been
       described as a "restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and
       "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes. PBS included Kurzweil
       as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America" along with other
       inventors of the past two centuries. Inc. magazine ranked him #8
       among the "most fascinating" entrepreneurs in the United States
       and called him "Edison's rightful heir".
       Kurzweil has written seven books, five of which have been
       national bestsellers. The Age of Spiritual Machines has been
       translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best-selling book on
       Amazon in science. Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near was a
       New York Times bestseller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in
       both science and philosophy. Kurzweil speaks widely to audiences
       both public and private and regularly delivers keynote speeches
       at industry conferences like DEMO, SXSW and TED. He maintains
       the news website KurzweilAI.net, which has over three million
       readers annually.[/quote]
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