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Ray Kurzweil
Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.
Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first charge-coupled device flatbed scanner,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://invent.org/inductee-detail/?IID=180 )〕 the first omni-font optical character recognition,〔 the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind,〔"Invented in 1976, the Kurzweil Reading Machine is the world's first computer to transform text into computer-spoken word."〕 the first commercial text-to-speech synthesizer,〔Klatt, D. (1987) "Review of Text-to-Speech Conversion for English" ''Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'' 82(3):737-93〕 the Kurzweil K250 music synthesizer capable of simulating the sound of the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States' highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He was the recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2001,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-kurzweil.html )〕 the world's largest for innovation. And in 2002 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He has received twenty honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Kurzweil has been described as a "restless genius"〔"Among the leaders is Kurzweil, a closely held company run by Raymond Kurzweil, a restless 41-year-old genius who developed both optical character recognition and speech synthesis to make a machine that reads aloud to the blind."〕 by ''The Wall Street Journal'' and "the ultimate thinking machine"〔Pfeiffer, Eric (1998-04-06) ("Start Up" ). Forbes. Retrieved on 2013-01-25.〕 by ''Forbes''. PBS included Kurzweil as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America"〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/innovators_hi.html )〕 along with other inventors of the past two centuries. ''Inc.'' magazine ranked him #8 among the "most fascinating" entrepreneurs in the United States and called him "Edison's rightful heir".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050401/26-index.html )〕
Kurzweil has authored seven books, five of which have been national bestsellers. ''The Age of Spiritual Machines'' has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best-selling book on Amazon in science. Kurzweil's book ''The Singularity Is Near'' was a ''New York Times'' bestseller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy. Kurzweil speaks widely to audiences public and private and regularly delivers keynote speeches at industry conferences like DEMO, SXSW and TED. He maintains the news website KurzweilAI.net, which has over three million readers annually.〔
==Life, inventions, and business career==
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