Raymond Kurzweil
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Raymond Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and music keyboards. He is author of "The Age of Intelligent Machines" and "The Age of Spiritual Machines", and a recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize and National Medal of Technology. His forthcoming book, "The Singularity is Near" is due in 2004.

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External links

• See http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html for a biography.
• http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/ has pointers to the cyber artist and cyber poet, both examples of 'intelligent' machines.
• Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence Network is a Web showcase for the ideas and technologies of leading visionaries. http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html

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