Ray Kurzweil at Global Directions 2013

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Ray Kurzweil gave the keynote at Global Directions 2013 and explores the exponential increase in computing power, computing intelligence, and the inexorable impact they will have on transforming information management for the enterprise.

Noted author, inventor, and technology visonary Ray Kurzweil gave the keynote at Global Directions 2013 and explores the exponential increase in computing power, computing intelligence, and the inexorable impact they will have on transforming information management for the enterprise.

In 1965 appearing on Steve Allen's "I've got a Secret" program Kurzweil played a piece of piano music composed by a computer he built as a high school project

Kurzweil is widely regarded as one of the leading inventors of our time. Time Magazine writes “Kurzweil’s eclectic career and propensity of combining science with practical – often humanitarian – applications have inspired comparisons with Thomas Edison.” Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition (OCR), the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, 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.

These technologies continue today as market leaders in their respective industries, industries that Ray Kurzweil pioneered. Kurzweil has successfully founded and developed nine companies in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, medical simulation, and cybernetic art. Kurzweil’s web site www.KurzweilAI.net is a leading resource on artificial intelligence with over 100,000 readers.

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Kurzweil received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the world’s largest award in invention and innovation, and was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventor Hall of Fame. He also received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University’s top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT and the Ray Kurzweil and President ClintonGrace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received ten honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. He has received seven national and international film awards.

One of the greatest living inventors in american history, Kurzweil has been called "America's new Edison" by the Wall Street Journal.

Kurzweil is a widely sought speaker and has given keynote presentations at many leading venues, including the Microsoft CEO Summit, the World Economic Forum, Pop!Tech, PC Expo, Business Week, The Council on Foreign Relations, SIGGRAPH, Cowen, TED, Techonomy, ICASSP, the American Psychiatric Association, Agenda, and many others. His presentations to diverse audiences combine wit and keen insight into contemporary issues of technology and its impact on society. His lectures often include appearances by “Ramona,” his “virtual female alter ego,” and other engaging demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies that Kurzweil and his teams have developed.

“with his brilliant descriptions of the coming connections of computers with immortality, Kurzweil clearly takes his place as a leading futurist of our time.” - Marvin Minsky

Kurzweil has written seven books and hundreds of articles. In recent years, there have been hundreds of articles each year by or about Ray Kurzweil in leading publications, including most major national magazines. His first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, was named Best Computer Science Book of 1990. This book, written in the late 1980s, has been acclaimed for its remarkably accurate predictions about the 1990s and early 2000 years. His recent books include Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (Rodale Books), coauthored with Terry Grossman, M.D., describes the science behind radical life extension, and The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.

In his latest book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, ...and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating.

In his books, Kurzweil lays out his future vision in computing, artificial intelligence, and its impact on humanity that is nothing short of astonishing.



SOURCE  Global Directions '13

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