Ray Kurzweil
Auteur van The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. 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, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of toon meer recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Credit: Michael Lutch
Werken van Ray Kurzweil
Het tijdperk van de levende computers een vooruitblik op onze computergestuurde 21ste eeuw (1999) 1,817 exemplaren
The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life: How to Reduce Fat in Your Diet and Eliminate Virtually All Risk of Heart Disease… (1992) 48 exemplaren
After Shock: The World's Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock—and Look Ahead to the Next 50 (2020) 19 exemplaren
The Ray Kurzweil Reader 3 exemplaren
Science of the Soul — Performer — 2 exemplaren
A medicina da imortalidade 2 exemplaren
Spiritualities, ethics, and implications of human enhancement and artificial intelligence (Series in Philosophy) (2020) 1 exemplaar
Transcendent Man 1 exemplaar
Danielle Box Set [Contains Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine and A Chronicle of Ideas: A Guide for Superheroines… (2019) 1 exemplaar
Seminario audiovisual de management 14. Negocios del futuro: las tendencias tecnológicas que vienen. 1 exemplaar
How to Predict the Future 1 exemplaar
Onsterfelijk 1 exemplaar
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KURZWEIL, Ray - Geboortedatum
- 1948-02-12
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- USA
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- Queens, New York, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS|1970)
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- Kurzweil Music Systems
Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc.
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Kurzweil Educational Systems - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- First place - International Science Fair (1965)
Grace Murray Hopper Award (1978)
Dickson Prize in Science (1994)
Inventor of the Year -- MIT (1998)
National Medal of Technology (1999)
Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology (2000) (toon alle 12)
Lemelson-MIT Prize (2001)
National Inventors Hall of Fame (2002)
Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award (2009)
ACM (Fellow)
Design Futures Council (Fellow)
National Academy of Engineering (2001) - Korte biografie
- Ray Kurzweil is the principal developer of (among a host of other inventions) the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech recognition system. Recipient of the National Medal of Technology among many other honors. [from What We Believe But Cannot Prove (2006)]
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