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- Raymond Kurzweil - Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
- Winners' Circle: Raymond Kurzweil - Biographic announcement of 2001 Lemelson-MIT Prize. [MIT]
- Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever - 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.
- Singularity is Near - By Raymond Kurzweil; Viking Press, 2005, ISBN 0670033847. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, news, press reviews, biography.
- Singularity: Ubiquity Interviews Ray Kurzweil - Substantive, meaty, medium long. [ACM: Ubiquity]
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence - By Ray Kurzweil; Penguin, 2000, ISBN 0140282025. Description, and comments by technology celebrities.
- Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. - Research, development and marketing firm. Technologies: pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, signal processing, simulating natural processes, related.
- Ray Kurzweil: Life in the Future - 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]
- Ray Kurzweil - Substantial interview on The Singularity is Near, with informative graphs. [InstaPundit]
- Artificial Intelligence - Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was online to answer questions on the Singularity theory: an era where humans and technology converge. Needs free registration.
Wikipedia Articles
- Kurzweil Music Systems - Kurzweil Music Systems is a company that produces electronic musical instruments for professionals and home users. Founded by Raymond Kurzweil, a developer of reading machines for the blind, the company made use of many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines and adapted them to musical purposes.
- Raymond Kurzweil - | birth_place = Queens, New York, United States
- Kurzweil - Raymond Kurzweil is an inventor, author, futurist, and pioneer in the fields of voice recognition, character recognition, and digital music synthesis.
- The Singularity Is Near - The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking Penguin, ISBN 0-670-03384-7) is a 2005 update of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1987 book The Age of Intelligent Machines. In it, as in the two previous versions, Kurzweil attempts to give us a glimpse into what awaits us in the near future.
- Accelerating change - ... a perceived increase in the rate of technological (and sometimes social and cultural) progress throughout history, which some claim suggests faster and more profound change in the future. While many have suggested accelerating change, its popularity in modern times is closely associated with the ideas and writings of Raymond Kurzweil.