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KurzweilAI.net - http://www.kurzweilai.net/
News, analysis, and essays on emerging trends in many technologies: AI, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, life extension, related areas. |
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Raymond Kurzweil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil
Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia] |
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Singularity is Near - http://singularity.com/
By Raymond Kurzweil; Viking Press, 2005, ISBN 0670033847. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, news, press reviews, biography. |
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Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. - http://www.kurzweiltech.com/
Research, development and marketing firm. Technologies: pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, signal processing, simulating natural processes, related. |
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Winners' Circle: Raymond Kurzweil - http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-kurzweil.html
Biographic announcement of 2001 Lemelson-MIT Prize. [MIT] |
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Ray & Terry's Longevity Products - http://www.rayandterry.com/
Firm sells nutrient supplements (vitamins, minerals, herbs) for longevity program documented in Ray Kurzweil, Terry Grossman book: Fantastic Voyage. |
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Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever - http://www.fantastic-voyage.net/
By Raymond Kurzweil, Terry Grossman, M.D.; Rodale Books, 2004, ISBN 1579549543. Book site, with descriptions, excerpts, resources, health research and news, press reviews, biography. |
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Singularity: Ubiquity Interviews Ray Kurzweil - http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i01_kurzweil.html
Substantive, meaty, medium long. [ACM: Ubiquity] |
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Artificial Intelligence - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/06/14/DI2006061402086.html
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was online to answer questions on the Singularity theory: an era where humans and technology converge. Needs free registration. |
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National Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor Profile - http://www.invent.org/Hall_Of_Fame/180.html
Brief biographic highlights, inducted 2002. [Invent Now] |
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence - http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/kurzweil/
By Ray Kurzweil; Penguin, 2000, ISBN 0140282025. Description, and comments by technology celebrities. |
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Ray Kurzweil: Life in the Future - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067661
Will new technologies fundamentally change what it means to be human? Inventor and author discusses technology change and effects on everything from health to artificial intelligence. Audio file. [NPR] |
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The Smartest (or the Nuttiest) Futurist on Earth - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008848/
Article on Kurzweil and his forcasts: in a few decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots in our bloodstreams, and be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer. Fortune. |
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Ray Kurzweil - http://www.instapundit.com/archives/025289.php
Substantial interview on The Singularity is Near, with informative graphs. [InstaPundit] |
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ACM: Fellows Award: Raymond Kurzweil - http://awards.acm.org/hopper/citation.cfm?id=3622009&srt=all&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER
Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professional of 1978, based on one major technical or service contribution. Kurzweil developed unique reading machine for blind to read printed pages aloud, via program rules to reliably, automatically recognize characters of many sizes, shapes. |