Ray Kurzweil
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Ray Kurzweil
Inventor, Cofounder Singularity University
The renowned and provocative futurist is not only predicting our techno-future but also helping to create it. Ray Kurzweil, 62, launched Singularity University with X Prize founder Peter Diamandis, based on the themes in Kurzweil's best seller The Singularity Is Near and backed by Google's Larry Page and the NASA Ames Research Center. The mission: to educate young entrepreneurs on the latest in such hot fields as artificial intelligence, biotech, and nanotech -- and then focus them on "the major challenges of humanity," Kurzweil says, including climate change and sustainable energy. "Only the scale of these exponentially growing technologies will be able to address these challenges." Four projects begun by the first graduates of the 10-week program last year are on the verge of becoming startups.
— Chuck Salter
The renowned and provocative futurist is not only predicting our techno-future but also helping to create it. Ray Kurzweil, 62, launched Singularity University with X Prize founder Peter Diamandis, based on the themes in Kurzweil's best seller The Singularity Is Near and backed by Google's Larry Page and the NASA Ames Research Center. The mission: to educate young entrepreneurs on the latest in such hot fields as artificial intelligence, biotech, and nanotech -- and then focus them on "the major challenges of humanity," Kurzweil says, including climate change and sustainable energy. "Only the scale of these exponentially growing technologies will be able to address these challenges." Four projects begun by the first graduates of the 10-week program last year are on the verge of becoming startups.
Web Site http://singularityu.org/
Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (pronounced /ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ KERZ-wyel; born February 12, 1948) is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields as diverse as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. -- Wikipedia (5/24/2010).
Ray Kurzweil will be speaking at the Most Creative People event on June 16. Read the agenda and register here.
