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BIO

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about | Ray Kurzweil

A lifetime of innovation.

Ray Kurzweil is a pioneering inventor in the field of computer science. He’s well known for historic tech innovations — that he developed using the software programming technique called pattern recognition. This complex skill is key to building advanced computer software called artificial intelligence — or AI — that can perform tasks at a human level or beyond, make decisions, solve problems, control robotics, manage industrial systems, and emulate life.

During his 50-year career of tech development — Ray’s created:

• life-like synthetic music
• like-like synthetic voice
• automated text-to-speech
• automated speech-to-text
• automated human language understanding

His achievements in the early days of computing brought him acclaim as a thinker, technologist, and futurist.

His legendary predictions about the future — tracking leaps in science, tech, and global progress — maintain a high accuracy level, even today. He talks about his lifetime as a creator of tech products — plus his hopeful vision for tomorrow — in his New York Times best-selling non-fiction books.

Ray is currently a principal researcher + AI visionary at Google — a subsidiary of the company Alphabet — where he + his team of software programmers are studying ways that computers can: process, interpret, understand, and use human language in everyday applications.

Designing AI software + machines has been Ray’s focus since the 1960s. Take a look below to see how he’s bridged the decades with exciting inventions.

Through the years.

the 1960s |

the 1970s |

the 1980s |

the 1990s |

the 2000s |

Looking ahead.

Today, Ray’s focused on his research at Google. His team is developing computer software that will bring human-like abilities to digital tools. Ray says this new era of amazing, intelligent software won’t replace humans — but it will augment + expand civilization.

He’s looking forward to the world of tomorrow — and believes we’re entering a time of abundance, health, safety, sustainability, progress, democracy, and discovery. Made possible by today’s advances in science knowledge, practical know-how, and incredible machines. Especially, digital devices that can be made smart, small, portable, affordable, capable, easy-to-use — then deployed at global scale.

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BOOKS by Ray Kurzweil

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— non-fiction —

• the Singularity Is Near
• How to Create a Mind
• the Age of Spiritual Machines
• the Age of Intelligent Machines
• Transcend
• Fantastic Voyage

books by Ray Kurzweil | visit

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And Ray’s first novel — about the young heroine named Danielle — is an adventure for all ages. Teaching creative thinking, curiosity, problem solving, friendship, self-esteem, and multi-cultural unity. The fiction story is accompanied by 2 non-fiction companion guides.

• novel — Danielle: chronicles of a super-heroine
• companion book — How to be a Danielle
• companion book — a Chronicle of Ideas

books by Ray Kurzweil | visit

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the KURZWEIL COLLECTIONS

This official library maintains a complete collection of Ray’s writings, historic inventions, and press. Plus a digest that follows breakthroughs + noteworthy trends in science, knowledge, tech, and progress — that are building a better future.

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FACTS

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birthday: February 12, 1948
from: borough of Queens ~ New York, NY  | US

elementary school: Kingsbury Elementary School
middle school: ~

high school: Martin Van Buren High School — grad. 1965
college: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — grad. 1970

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— notes  —

MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NY = New York
US = United States

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