Raymond Kurzweil

...and engineers are grappling with the implicationsaEUR"for good and ill. When I spoke to technology pioneer and futurist Ray Kurzweil (who popularized the idea in his book The Singularity Is Near), he put it this way: aEURoeWithin a...

In this article: Ray Kurzweil, Vernor Vinge, Air France Flight 447, Hiccup, Cancer, Foresight Institute, Skype, and The Singularity Is Near

...industries. Gillam, one of 20 participants in Singularity University's inaugural program for executives, was listening to futurist Ray Kurzweil. "We will have plenty of computation as we go through the 21st century," Kurzweil told attendees...

In this article: Ray Kurzweil, Amgen, Yahoo, Microsoft, and X Prize

Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I've Got a Secret in 1965 when he was 17 years old. He made a computer that plays music, at the end of the video they show the computer - via Bruce Sterling. Subscribe today, save 42%...

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...covered during the executive session. From the beginning, SU's founders--futurist and "The Singuality is Near" author Ray Kurzweil; Diamandis; and ex-Yahoo Brickhouse head Salim Ismail--had planned on the institution offering both the...

In this article: Peter Diamandis, Microsoft, Carbon, and Cancer

...the technology being used. Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book...

In this article: Intel Corp., Dyslexic, Ray Kurzweil, Baker & Taylor, Windows Mobile, Elsevier Science, Iphone, Google, and National Federation of the Blind

Teenage Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got A Secret" Hey look, it's Singularity evangelist and famed inventor Ray Kurzweil appearing on a 1965 episode of "I've Got A Secret." He was 17 years old. Check out the video of the appearance at the new...

In this article: Ray Kurzweil, I've Got a Secret, Gary Glitter, Trademark, Creative Commons License, Boing Boing, Mac OS, Scientific American, and Michael Shermer

...recovery following Bob's injuries in Iraq. Audiences will not want to miss the unique presentation on March 6, 2010 of Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil, one of the leading inventors of our time, is described as "the restless genius" by The Wall...

In this article: Vero Beach, Lee Woodruff, Ray Kurzweil, Bob Woodruff, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Good Morning America, and Treasure Coast

...of the Danish Aging Research Center and lead author of the report, on the phone from Odense, Denmark. Dr. Terry Grossman and Ray Kurzweil, authors of "Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever," go much further. "The estimate of 100 is...

In this article: Ray Kurzweil, British Medical Journal, Obesity, Insulin, and Odense, Denmark

Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book reading software created by...

In this article: Ray Kurzweil, Baker & Taylor, Dyslexia, Iphone, National Federation of the Blind, Massachusetts, and U.S.

...up a new site called Motherboard that I don't totally understand the point of, but I very much enjoyed the interview with Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil has always been a hero of mine ever since I first hear of him when I was at MIT in the...

In this article: Ray Kurzweil, Foundry Group, Mobius Venture Capital, Business partner, JavaScript, MIT, Dell, and Boston