Kurzweil is a pioneer in the field of human-computer interfacing, and
has also developed music synthesizers that successfully re-create the
sound of acoustic instruments.
Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002 for the
Kurzweil Reading Machine, the first device to transform print into
computer-spoken words.
Founder of Kurzweil Technologies.
Cousin of Allen Kurzweil.
Became an inventor at age 5.
Father of Amy Kurzweil.
Discovered the computer at age 12.
Co founder of Ray & Terry's Longevity Products.
He is known for taking over 200 pills a day.
In a 2009 interview for Rolling Stone Magazine, Ray said he would create a clone of his late father from his DNA.
Author of the book "The Singularity Is Near".
Is agnostic about the existence of a soul.
Is an Employer at Google.
He will be cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in the hope that future medical technology will revive him.
Creator of the Law Of Accelerating Returns.
Invented the CCD flatbed scanner, the reading machine for the blind, optical character recognition and the commercial text to speech synthesizer.
Described as "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes.
Wrote a fiction book called Danielle Adventures of a Superheroine,.
Described as "restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal.