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ACM: Fellows Award: Raymond Kurzweil
Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professional of 1978, based on one major technical or service contribution. Kurzweil developed unique reading machine for blind to read printed pages aloud, via program rules to reliably, automatically recognize characters of many sizes, shapes.
Raymond Kurzweil
Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
The Smartest (or the Nuttiest) Futurist on Earth
Article on Kurzweil and his forcasts: in a few decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots in our bloodstreams, and be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer. Fortune.
Singularity is Near
By Raymond Kurzweil; Viking Press, 2005, ISBN 0670033847. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, news, press reviews, biography.
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
By Ray Kurzweil; Penguin, 2000, ISBN 0140282025. Description, and comments by technology celebrities.
Winners' Circle: Raymond Kurzweil
Biographic announcement of 2001 Lemelson-MIT Prize. [MIT]
Singularity: Ubiquity Interviews Ray Kurzweil
Substantive, meaty, medium long. [ACM: Ubiquity]
Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
By Raymond Kurzweil, Terry Grossman, M.D.; Rodale Books, 2004, ISBN 1579549543. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, health research and news, press reviews, biography.
Ray Kurzweil
Substantial interview on The Singularity is Near, with informative graphs. [InstaPundit]
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor Profile
Brief biographic highlights, inducted 2002. [Invent Now]
KurzweilAI.net
News, analysis, and essays on emerging trends in many technologies: AI, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, life extension, related areas.
Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Research, development and marketing firm. Technologies: pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, signal processing, simulating natural processes, related.
Ray Kurzweil: Life in the Future
Will new technologies fundamentally change what it means to be human? Inventor and author discusses technology change and effects on everything from health to artificial intelligence. Audio file. [NPR]
Ray & Terry's Longevity Products
Firm sells nutrient supplements (vitamins, minerals, herbs) for longevity program documented in Ray Kurzweil, Terry Grossman book: Fantastic Voyage.
Artificial Intelligence
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was online to answer questions on the Singularity theory: an era where humans and technology converge. Needs free registration.
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