Ray Kurzweil
Inventor, futurist and author
Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, author and futurist whose work spans speech recognition, text-to-speech and artificial intelligence.
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American Born 1948 in Queens, United States
About Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948, in Queens, New York. He is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and futurist. His work has touched optical character recognition, speech synthesis from text, speech recognition and electronic keyboard instruments. He received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1999 and joined the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. He has also received a Grammy Award for achievement in music technology. Kurzweil has written about health technology, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and the technological singularity. His books include The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind, both of which reached the New York Times best-seller list, along with The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Nearer.