"The ultimate thinking machine"
prof. dr. Raymond Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil has been described as "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal, and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison", and PBS included Ray as one of 16 ...
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Over Raymond Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison”, and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America”, along with other inventors of the past two centuries.As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray 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 recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Rays web site Kurzweil AI.net has over one million readers.Among Rays many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world’s largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame , established by the US Patent Office.He has received nineteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written six books, four of which have been national best sellers. ‘The Age of Spiritual Machines’ has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science. Rays latest book, ‘The Singularity is Near’, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.
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Ziv Hellman
"When Kurzweil speaks today, people listen. On a recent visit to Israel, he had private sessions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (a fellow MIT graduate) and President Shimon Peres. He shared a stage with Peres at the Presidential Conference on Facing Tomorrow, at one of the most packed panels of the conference, and Netanyahu mentioned him prominently when he announced a government initiative to support the search for alternative energy sources."
Pearl Freier
"Ray was fantastic! We had a full audience and there continues to be follow-up discussion on Twitter."
Lori Landay, PhD, Associate Professor
"Ray's presence at an institution can have a transformative effect, and I can see it already in a flurry of e-mails expressing interest in teaching with technology, and especially Second Life. It is also healthy for people to have a chance to express their fears and concerns about technology, and hear them answered in such a rational, clear, big-picture way. When we at Berklee chart our development in our use of technology, Ray’s visit and the impact of his ideas will be a milestone, causing a paradigm shift that helped us not only grow, but understand our growth."
Angelika Jahn, Head Investment Campaigns & Communication
"The conference went very well and the clients (and myself too!) were very fascinated by Mr. Kurzweil’s speech!"
William W. Destler, Ph.D., President
"Your presence at RIT was enthusiastically received when several thousand students, faculty, staff, and citizens of Greater Rochester arrived to experience your brilliant look into the future... As one of the leading inventors and futurists of our time, you inspired so many people across so many disciplines. Your presentation, “Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies”, was one of the best sessions we have had at Liberty Hill.
The explanation of your thinking, related to linear versus exponential trends, set the stage for the breadth and depth of your presentation. While Wall Street might refer to you as “the restless genius”, we experienced you as a very logical, yet imaginative and creative thinker who will hold a unique spot in the history of American and global inventors."
Elke Wiedmaier, Executive Director
"We were very pleased with Mr. Kurzweil’s speech, his expertise combined with the Teleportec system made his lecture one of the highlights of the event."
William Maxwell, Ed.D., Professor of Thinking
"Dr. Kurzweil inspired us with his graphs and other evidence for the triumph of progress (or evolution) over the negative forces that abound in our cultures. All of his three formal presentations were first class. Our students particularly related very well to Dr. Kurzweil. In fact, the Leonardo Da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking voted all sorts of accolades for those involved in planning this, including his office staff."
Susan Smith
"The event was a big success. The journalists I spoke to said they found Ray’s speech ‘awe inspiring’ and he was in hot demand for one to one interviews the following day. We’re collating feedback forms from the attendees – many of them gave Ray 5 out of 5!"
Inbal Hakman
"Mr. Kurzweil was undoubtedly a Conference highlight."