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Ray Kurzweil

1948 - Today

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Raymond Kurzweil ( KURZ-wyle; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Kurzweil is the 16th most popular computer scientist (up from 17th in 2019), the 1,340th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,351st in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist who has been called "the restless genius." He has been a pioneer in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and text-to-speech synthesis.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ray Kurzweil ranks 16 out of 245. Before him are Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geoffrey Hinton, Niklaus Wirth, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Linus Torvalds. After him are Marvin Minsky, John Cocke, Don Norman, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, John Backus, and Ken Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ray Kurzweil ranks 71. Before him are Arie Haan, Bille August, Ian McEwan, Hartmut Michel, Siim Kallas, and William Daniel Phillips. After him are Carl Weathers, Valentin Ceaușescu, Edwige Fenech, Amadou Toumani Touré, Tom Wilkinson, and Nicolae Timofti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 1,340 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Spaatz (1891), Mr. T (1952), Willie Nelson (1933), Mark David Chapman (1955), John Updike (1932), and Mary Jackson (1921). After him are Usher (1978), John Fante (1909), Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760), William Barr (1950), Mark Wahlberg (1971), and Andrew Dickson White (1832).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 8. Before him are Grace Hopper (1906), John McCarthy (1927), Barbara Liskov (1939), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Frances E. Allen (1932), and Donald Knuth (1938). After him are Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), John Backus (1924), and Ken Thompson (1943).

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