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2011:

  1. Ray Kurzweil and Barry Ptolemy on the film 'Transcendent Man'
    Ray Kurzweil and Barry Ptolemy on the film 'Transcendent...

    with Barry Ptolemy and Ray Kurzweil on Mar 18, 2011

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    12 min
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  2. In Charlie's Green Room with Ray Kurzweil
    In Charlie's Green Room with Ray Kurzweil

    with Ray Kurzweil on Mar 14, 2011

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    7 min
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2005:

  1. A conversation with author Ray Kurzweil
    A conversation with author Ray Kurzweil

    with Ray Kurzweil on Nov 1, 2005

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    27 min
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  2. A conversation with inventor Ray Kurzweil
    A conversation with inventor Ray Kurzweil

    with Ray Kurzweil on Aug 3, 2005

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    17 min
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Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity, and futurism.

Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first electronic musical instrument capable of recreating the sound of a grand piano and other orchestral instruments and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition system.

Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the United States’ largest award in invention and innovation, and the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology.

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