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Author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil is currently director of engineering at Google, where he heads up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flatbed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of re-creating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. He received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology; was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; holds 21 honorary doctorates, and received honors from three U.S. presidents. He has written five national best-selling books, including the New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005) and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (2012). (Photo credit: Weinberg-Clark Photography)
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