Knowledge: kurzweil, raymond
See Also:
- computers → artificial intelligence
- computers → hardware → peripherals → scanners
- computers → speech technology
- health → aging → anti-aging
- society → future → transhumanism → singularity
Links
- Raymond Kurzweil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil - Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
- Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
http://www.kurzweiltech.com/ - Research, development and marketing firm. Technologies: pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, signal processing, simulating natural processes, related.
- Winners' Circle: Raymond Kurzweil
http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-kurzweil.html - Biographic announcement of 2001 Lemelson-MIT Prize. [MIT]
- National Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor Profile
http://www.invent.org/Hall_Of_Fame/180.html - Brief biographic highlights, inducted 2002. [Invent Now]
- Ray Kurzweil
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/025289.php - Substantial interview on The Singularity is Near, with informative graphs. [InstaPundit]
- Ray Kurzweil: Life in the Future
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067661 - Will new technologies fundamentally change what it means to be human? Inventor and author discusses technology change and effects on everything from health to artificial intelligence. Audio file. [NPR]
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/kurzweil/ - By Ray Kurzweil; Penguin, 2000, ISBN 0140282025. Description, and comments by technology celebrities.
- Singularity is Near
http://singularity.com/ - By Raymond Kurzweil; Viking Press, 2005, ISBN 0670033847. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, news, press reviews, biography.
- Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
http://www.fantastic-voyage.net/ - By Raymond Kurzweil, Terry Grossman, M.D.; Rodale Books, 2004, ISBN 1579549543. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, health research and news, press reviews, biography.
- KurzweilAI.net
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ - News, analysis, and essays on emerging trends in many technologies: AI, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, life extension, related areas.
- Ray & Terry's Longevity Products
http://www.rayandterry.com/ - Firm sells nutrient supplements (vitamins, minerals, herbs) for longevity program documented in Ray Kurzweil, Terry Grossman book: Fantastic Voyage.
- Singularity: Ubiquity Interviews Ray Kurzweil
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i01_kurzweil.html - Substantive, meaty, medium long. [ACM: Ubiquity]
- Artificial Intelligence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/06/14/DI2006061402086.html - Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was online to answer questions on the Singularity theory: an era where humans and technology converge. Needs free registration.
- The Smartest (or the Nuttiest) Futurist on Earth
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008848/ - Article on Kurzweil and his forcasts: in a few decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots in our bloodstreams, and be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer. Fortune.
- ACM: Fellows Award: Raymond Kurzweil
http://awards.acm.org/hopper/citation.cfm?id=3622009&srt=all&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER - Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professional of 1978, based on one major technical or service contribution. Kurzweil developed unique reading machine for blind to read printed pages aloud, via program rules to reliably, automatically recognize characters of many sizes, shapes.
Newsgroups
- alt.extropians
- bionet.molbio.ageing
- comp.ai
- comp.ai.philosophy
- comp.periphs.scanners
- comp.speech
- sci.cognitive
- sci.life-extension
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