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An Interview With Ray Kurzweil |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--FUTURE SCIENCE |
| Author: Sander Olson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 4,611 Words, 30,256 Characters |
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Ray 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 flatbed 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. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence. His KurzweilAI.net web site is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.
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This article was reprinted from the website of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the major societal and environmental implications of advanced nanotechnology. Copyright © 2007 CRN (www.CRNano.org)
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