Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes.   Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Kurzweil as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries.

As one of the leading inventors of our time, Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, 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. Kurzweil’s web site Kurzweil AI.net has over one million readers.

Kurzweil has written five books, four of which have been national best sellers.  The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science.  Kurzweil’s latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

Kurzweil speaks frequently to diverse audiences around the world, presenting a thought provoking, long-term, big picture view of the future of technology and its implications for society.  In  his presentations he explains the exponential growth of technology (what he calls, "The Law of Accelerating Returns") and its path towards reverse engineering the brain, nanotechnology, the merging of human and machine, and ultimately extreme human life extension.  These ideas form the core thesis of Kurzweil's lectures and his latest book The Singularity is Near:  When Humans Transcend Biology.

Kurzweil's presentations are often shaped around the
following topics:

• Innovation
  
• Health and medicine
  
• Education
  
• Business & investing
  
• Energy
  
• Disabilities & assistive technologies

For more information about Kurzweil's public speaking appearances, including more pictures, please see: 

Pictures of Kurzweil - Ray Kurzweil
Public Relations - Speaking Engagements Page

On January 27, 2008, K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc, a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. unveiled a product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and learning disabled.

For more information about the K-NFB Reader:

knfbreader.com
Press on K-NFB Reader at knfbreader.com

KNFB Press Release

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Kurzweil Technologies: 781-263-0000 x235, nanda@kurzweilai.net

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Sarah Reed, Public Relations Coordinator,
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