Curriculum
Vitae
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Personal
- Born, February 12, 1948
- Married to Sonya R. Kurzweil
Contact Information
- Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
PMB 193 733 Turnpike Street North Andover, MA 01845
781-263-0000
Fax: 781-263-9999
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:KurzweilTech.com
and KurzweilAI.net
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Education |
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1970 |
B.S.,
Computer Science and Literature, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology |
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Companies
Founded |
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2003 |
Co-Founder,
Chairman and co-CEO, Ray & Terry’s Longevity
Products, Inc. RayandTerry.com |
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Ray
& Terry’s Longevity Products develops and markets
leading nutraceutical health products that combine excellent
taste with outstanding nutritional qualities. The food
products are not just fortified with nutritional supplements,
they are comprised entirely of health-promoting nutritional
supplements. The company also develops and markets nutritional
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2001 |
Founder,
CEO and Editor-in-Chief, KurzweilAI.net |
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KurzweilAI.net
is the "home of the big thinkers" with over 700 articles
by 100 authors on the future of technology and its impact
on society. Features "Ramona," a lifelike avatar with
conversational abilities based on natural language processing
technology. KurzweilAI.net is a leading resource on the
web for advanced technologies with over 500,000 readers,
and a daily electronic newsletter. |
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2000 |
Founder,
Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil
Cyber Art Technologies, Inc. ("KCAT") |
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KCAT
"creates software that creates art." KCAT products include
"Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet" and "AARON the Cybernetic
Artist" developed by Harold Cohen.
Developing Ray Kurzweil's Fractal Artist, an intelligent
interactive art creation program. |
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1999 |
Founder,
Chairman and CEO, FAT
KAT, Inc. |
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FAT
KAT Financial Accelerating Transactions from Kurzweil
Adaptive Technologies |
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FAT
KAT is developing intelligent systems based on genetic
(evolutionary) algorithms and neural nets to make stock
market transaction decisions. |
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1997
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Founder,
President, and CEO, Medical Learning Company, Inc.
("MLC") and FamilyPractice.com |
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MLC
is a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
and the American Board of Family Practice, a leading medical
board which certifies 60,000 Family Practice Physicians.
MLC has developed the VirtualPatient, a simulated
patient and virtual doctor - patient encounter for medical
education and reference. |
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1996
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Founder
and former CEO, Kurzweil
Educational Systems, Inc. ("KESI") |
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Kurzweil
Education develops and markets educational software products.
KESI has developed a new generation of reading technology
software for persons with reading disabilities, ADHD,
low vision, and visual impairment. Its two product lines
the Kurzweil 3000 and Kurzweil 1000 are
the lead products in their product categories. The Kurzweil
3000 has been adopted by thousands of schools in the United
States and other countries. |
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1995 |
Founder,
Chairman and CEO of Kurzweil
Technologies, Inc. ("KTI"). |
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KTI
is a software development firm, currently supporting KurzweilAI.net,
KCAT, MLC and FAT KAT. |
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KTI is developing a hand held reading
system for the blind in a joint effort with the National
Federation of the Blind. |
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KTI
has provided assistance to clients on the assessment,
development and disposition of patents, technology assets
and software technologies. KTI clients have included: |
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United Therapeutics,
Inc. |
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The American
Board of Family Practice |
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Wang Laboratories,
Inc. Creditors Committee |
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Wang Laboratories,
Inc. |
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Kendall Square
Research, Inc. Creditors Committee |
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DSP Associates |
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Tech Online |
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1982 |
Founder
(and former CEO), Kurzweil Applied
Intelligence, Inc. ("KAI"). |
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KAI
developed the first commercially marketed large vocabulary
speech Recognition technology. The company continues as
part of ScanSoft (formerly Kurzweil Computer Products,
Inc.). |
1982 |
Founder
and former CEO, Kurzweil
Music Systems, Inc. |
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Sold
to Young Chang Akki Co., Ltd. In 1990. (now Kurzweil Music
Systems division of Young Chang Akki Co., Ltd.) |
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The
Kurzweil Music products continue as a leading brand of
musical instruments for both professional and amateur
musicians, distributed in 45 countries worldwide. |
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1974 |
Founder
and former CEO, Kurzweil
Computer Products, Inc. |
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Sold
to Xerox Corporation in 1980 (now Xerox Imaging Systems) |
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Company
was the worldwide market leader in reading machines for
the Blind through 1996 and continues as a leader in scanning
and character recognition technology and products. The
current market leader in reading machines for the blind
and persons with learning disabilities is currently Kurzweil
Educational Systems, Inc. |
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The
Kurzweil OCR (optical character recognition) software
is now called TextBridge, a worldwide market leader
in OCR. This software has been in continuous development
for 29 years. |
Technology
Firsts
2001 |
First host
/ hostess Avatar on the Web to combine a lifelike
photo realistic, moving and speaking facial image with
a conversational engine. |
2001 |
First Virtual
Performing and Recording Artist (Ramona) to perform
in front of a live audience with a live band. |
1997 |
First Print-to-Speech
Reading System for Persons with Reading Disabilities
that Reads from a Displayed Image of the Page (Kurzweil
3000) |
1997 |
First
Continuous Speech Natural Language Command and Control
Software(Kurzweil VoiceCommands) |
1994 |
First
Speech Recognition Dictation System for Windows
(Kurzweil Voice for Windows) |
1987 |
First
commercially marketed Large Vocabulary
Speech Recognition (Kurzweil Voice Report) |
1985 |
First
Knowledge Base System for Creating Medical Reports
(Kurzweil VoiceMED) |
1984 |
First
Computer Music Keyboard
capable of accurately reproducing the sounds of the
grand piano and other orchestral instruments (Kurzweil
250) |
1976 |
First
Omni-Font (i.e., any type font) Optical
Character Recognition (now Xerox TextBridge) |
1976 |
First
Print-to-Speech Reading Machine
for the Blind (Kurzweil Reading Machine) The
Kurzweil Reading Machine is considered to be the worlds
first consumer product to successfully incorporate Artificial
Intelligence technology. |
1975 |
First
CCD Flatbed Scanner |
1975 |
First
Text-to-Speech speech
synthesis |
1967 |
First
computer-based Expert System for College Selection
(SELECT). SELECT was sold to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
(New York) |
1964 |
Developed
computer-based expert system for music composition;
won seven national awards including first prize in the
International Science Fair in Electronics & Communications.
Honored at award ceremony with President Johnson recognizing
achievements of young American scientists. |
1964 |
First
computerized Four-Way Analysis of Variance (statistical
program) |
Selected Current
Products of Companies Founded by Ray Kurzweil
The companies founded by Ray Kurzweil
all continue with major research and development programs
and product lines. Three of these companies (the last three
below) were sold to larger companies, but nonetheless maintain
their identity as active subsidiaries. The products offered
by these companies continue to be prominent in their markets,
which are the same markets they were founded to pursue.
Below are selected current products of these companies,
many of which have won awards.
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Kurzweil
Accelerating Intelligence Network, Inc.: |
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The
KurzweilAI.net
web site and newsletter |
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CyberArt, Inc.: |
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AARON,
The cybernetic artist |
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Ray
Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet |
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Kurzweil
Educational systems, Inc.: |
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Kurzweil
3000 Reading System for Persons with Reading Disabilities |
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Kurzweil
1000 Reading System for the Blind |
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Kurzweil
Music Systems (division of Young Chang Akki Co., Ltd.): |
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Kurzweil
Home Products: Mark 5, 10, 150, Micro Piano and
others |
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Kurzweil
Pro Products: K2000, K2500, PC88 and others |
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Xerox
Imaging Systems (formerly Kurzweil Computer Products,
Inc.): |
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TextBridge
(shrink-wrapped OCR product) |
Selected Accomplishments of Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Advisors/Mentors to:
United Therapeutics:
(public) pharmaceutical company
Inforte: e-business consulting
Zyvex: nanotechnology
New Hope Pharmaceuticals: cancer and disease assays
SSB Technologies: enabling web technology for disabilities
Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies: microscopic fuel cells
using MEMS
Biophan Technologies: pacemakers that allow MRI
TechOnline: online education and training for engineers
Software Development of Patient
Simulation System for The American Board of Family
Practice
Advisor to TechOnline,
a leading online educational site for engineers
Arranged the sale of the assets
of The International Conference on Signal Processing
Applications and Technology and DSP World EXPO to Miller
Freeman Co., Inc.
Arranged the sale of the patent
assets (as court appointed exclusive agent) of Kendall
Square Research, Inc. to Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Arranged the license of technology
assets (as court appointed exclusive agent) of Kendall
Square Research, Inc. to Dolphin Systems, Inc.
The principal technology advisor
to Wang Laboratories, Inc. in the negotiation of
its Strategic Alliance Agreement with Microsoft Corp.
The principal technology advisor
to the Creditors Committee for Wang Laboratories, Inc.
in the formulation of its plan of reorganization confirmed
in September, 1993.
Public
Company Board Positions
Social
and Professional Organizations
Chairman and founder, The Kurzweil Foundation
The Kurzweil Foundation supports the application
of technology for the handicapped and projects to advance
public understanding of the social impact of new technology.
A current project is to provide scholarships to blind
students (over 250 given out). Another current project
is to develop online continuing medical education for
physicians.
Trustee, Beth Israel Hospital
Director, Massachusetts Computer
Software Council
Former Director, Boston Computer
Society
Incorporator, Boston Museum
of Science
Member, MIT Corporation Visiting
Committee, MIT School of Humanities, MIT School of
Music
Overseer, Board of Overseers,
New England Conservatory of Music
Former Member, Technology Advisory
Committee, National Center on Adult Literacy, University
of Pennsylvania
Chairman, "Robots and
Beyond: The Age of Intelligent Machines" (Exhibition
on Artificial Intelligence presented at eight leading
science museums), 1987-1990.
Books and
Film
The Singularity
is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology |
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Viking / Penguin Books, Upcoming book
in Spring 2005 |
Fantastic Voyage:
Live Long Enough to Live Forever, co-authored
with Terry Grossman, M.D. |
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Rodale Books, October 2004 |
Are
We Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil versus the Critics
of Strong AI |
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The Discovery
Institute Press (2002) |
The
Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human
Intelligence |
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Viking / Penguin
Books, 1999 |
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Orion Books,
1999 (British Edition) |
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Verlag Kiepenheuer
& Witsch, 1999 (German Edition) |
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Allen &
Unwin, 1999 (Australian Edition) |
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Foreign editions
in German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean,
Hebrew |
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The
10% Solution for a Healthy Life, |
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Crown Publishers,
1993 |
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Bookman Press
(Australian Edition), 1993 |
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Crown Trade
Paperbacks, 1995 |
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The
Age of Intelligent Machines, |
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MIT Press, 1990 |
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MIT Press Paperback
Edition, 1992 |
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Hanser Verlag
(German Edition), 1993 |
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Conacyt (Spanish
Edition), 1994 |
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The
Age of Intelligent Machines (the film), |
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MIT Press, 1987 |
Journalism
"The Futurecast,"
A monthly column in Library Journal (1991 - 1993)
KurzweilAI.net: a leading
web site for advanced technologies, providing over 500
articles and a daily electronic newsletter.
Honorary
Degrees
2005 |
(scheduled) Honorary Doctorate
of Science, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute |
2002 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Humane Letters, Landmark College |
2000 |
Honorary
Doctorate in Science and Humanities, Michigan State
University |
1993 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Science, Dominican College |
1991 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Science, Queens College, City University
of New York |
1990 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
1989 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Humane Letters, Misericordia College |
1989 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Engineering, Merrimack College |
1988 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
1988 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Science, Northeastern University |
1987 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Music, Berklee College of Music |
1982 |
Honorary
Doctorate of Humane Letters, Hofstra University |
Selected
Awards and Honors
2002 |
Inducted
into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, founded
by the U.S. Patent Office |
2001 |
Second
Annual American Composers Orchestra Award for
the Advancement of New Music in America. |
2000 |
Lemelson-MIT
Prize. This $500,000 award is the largest in the
U.S. in invention and innovation |
1999 |
National
Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor
in technology, to be presented by President Clinton
in a White House Ceremony on March 14, 2000 |
1998 |
Stevie
Wonder / SAP "Vision Award" for Product
of the Year (for the Kurzweil 1000), a $150,000 prize
(being used by the Kurzweil Foundation to provide scholarships
to blind students) |
1997 |
Presidents
Award, AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and
Disability) |
1996 |
Software
Industry Achievement Award, Massachusetts Software
Council |
1995 |
Access
Prize, American Foundation for the Blind |
1994 |
Dickson
Prize, Carnegie Mellon Universitys top science
prize |
1994 |
Gordon
Winston Award, Canadian National Institute for the
Blind |
1993 |
ACM
Fellow Award, Association for Computing Machinery |
1992 |
Massachusetts
Quincentennial Award for Innovation and Discovery |
1991 |
Louis
Braille Award, Associated Services for the Blind |
1990 |
Engineer
of the Year Award, awarded by Design News magazine |
1989 |
Founders
Award, awarded by MIT to leading alumni entrepreneurs |
1988 |
Inventor
of the Year Award, awarded by MIT, the Boston Museum
of Science and Boston Patent Law Association |
1986 |
Honorary
Chairman for Innovation, White House Conference
on Small Business |
1986 |
The
1986 White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence,
President Reagan |
1986 |
Distinguished
Inventor Award, Intellectual Property Owners |
1984 |
Best
of the New Generation Award, Esquire Magazine |
1984 |
"An
American Portrait," CBS News |
1983 |
Francis
Joseph Campbell Award, American Library Association |
1982 |
Computer
Science Award, President Reagan |
1982 |
Admitted
to the Computer Industry Hall of Fame |
1981 |
National
Award, Johns Hopkins University, Personal Computing
to Aid the Handicapped |
1978 |
Grace
Murray Hopper Award, Association for Computing Machinery |
1977 |
Governor's
Award, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis |
1965 |
First
Prize, Electronics and Communications, International
Science Fair |
Selected
Book Awards and Honors
1999 |
Literary
Lights Prize, Boston Public Library: The Age
of Spiritual Machines |
1999,
2000 |
National
and Regional BEST SELLER lists, The Age of
Spiritual Machines |
1993 |
Regional
BEST SELLER Lists: The 10% Solution for a Healthy
Life |
1991 |
Most
Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990 Award,
Association of American Publishers: The Age of Intelligent
Machines |
1991 |
The
Silicon Valley BEST SELLER List: The Age of
Intelligent Machines |
1991 |
MIT
Press Best Seller: The Age of Intelligent Machines |
Selected
Film Awards
1988 |
Prize
of the President of the Festival, International
Film Festival of Czechoslovakia |
1988 |
Technology
Culture Award, International Festival of Scientific
Films, Belgrade |
1987 |
CINE
Golden Eagle Award |
1987 |
Gold
Medal - Science Education, International Film and
TV Festival of New York |
1987 |
Creative
Excellence Award, U.S. Industrial Film and Video
Festival |
1987 |
The
Chris Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival |
Partial
List of Patents
U.S. 6,754,823 |
Technique for distributing software |
U.S. 6,747,672 |
Virtual patient hot spots |
U.S. 6,692,258 |
Patient simulator |
U.S. 6,647,395 |
Poet personalities |
U.S. 6,587,583 |
Compression / decompression algorithm
for image documents having text, graphical and color
content |
U.S. 6,320,982 |
Compression / decompression algorithm
for image documents having text, graphical and color
content |
U.S. 6,246,791 |
Compression / decompression algorithm
for image documents having text, graphical and color
content |
U.S. 6,199,042 |
Reading system |
U.S. 6,173,264 |
Reading system displaying scanned images
with dual highlighting |
U.S. 6,125,347 |
System for controlling multiple user
application programs by spoken input |
U.S. 6,052,663 |
Reading system which reads aloud from
an image representation of a document |
U.S. 6,033,224 |
Reading machine system for the blind
having a dictionary |
U.S. 6,014,464 |
Compression / decompression algorithm
for image documents having text, graphical and color
content |
U.S. 5,875,428 |
Reading system displaying scanned images
with dual highlights |
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Selected
Keynote Addresses and Principal Lectures
2000-2004 |
Keynote
Addresses at many leading conferences, including the
Microsoft CEO Summit, Pop!Tech, the World Economic Forum,
PC Expo, SIGGRAPH, Business Week, the Council on Foreign
Relations, The American Psychiatric Association, Cowen,
TED, ACM, ICASSP, Agenda, NY Music & Internet Expo,
a joint keynote address with former Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak for SCP Capital, and many others. |
1999 |
Presentations
at Smithsonian, Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose),
Philadelphia Library, Johns Hopkins University, Seybold
Conference, CSPAN, and many others |
1997 |
Keynote
Address, AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and
Disability) National Conference, "The Role of Technology
in Overcoming Disabilities" |
1997 |
Panel
on HALs Birthday, University of Illinois at Urbana |
1996 |
Keynote
Address, National Federation of the Blind - Canadian
National Institute for the Blind, International Conference
on Technology for the Blind, "What Technology can
Contribute" |
1996 |
Presidents
Forum Address, Entrepreneurship Institute Conference |
1996 |
Keynote
Address, Association for Education and Rehabilitation,
Annual International Conference, "The End of Handicaps" |
1996 |
Keynote
Address, Medical Group Management Association, "Computer
Science and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century" |
1996 |
Keynote
Address, American Committee for the Weizmann Institute
of Science |
1996 |
Lecture,
American Conference Institute, "Developing Intellectual
Property" |
1995 |
Joint
Keynote Address with (former) Israeli Prime Minister
Shimon Peres, Gartner Group, Annual International Conference
on Personal Computing (MidEast), "Turings
Prophecy" |
1995 |
Keynote
Address, Turnaround Management Association, "Creating
and Preserving Wealth in the Age of Knowledge"
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1995 |
Keynote
Address, IBM Computing Conference, "The Future
of Computing Technology" |
1995 |
Dickson
Prize Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, "Machine
Intelligence: The First 80 Years (1940 - 2020)" |
1995 |
Friedberg
Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, "The Future
of Machine Intelligence" |
1995 |
Keynote
Address, Jo Taylor Leadership Institute National Conference,
American Foundation for the Blind, "The End of
Handicaps" |
1994 |
Presentation
on the Wang Reorganization to the MIT Enterprise Forum |
1994 |
Keynote
Address, Gartner Group, Annual International Conferences
on Personal Computing (U.S. and Europe), "The Future
of Computing" |
1994 |
Keynote
Address, Anderson Consulting, Annual National Partners
Meeting, "The Sixty-Four Squares of the Chessboard" |
1994 |
Winston
Gordon Prize Lecture, Canadian National Institute for
the Blind National Conference, "The Future of Disabilities
Technology" |
1994 |
Keynote
Address, Presidents Committee on Employment of
People with Disabilities National Conference, "The
End of Handicaps" |
1994 |
Keynote
Address, PC Enterprise Conference, "The Future
of Personal Computing" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, National Conference on Technology for the Blind,
National Federation of the Blind and the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind, "The Future of Technology
for the Visually Impaired" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, Technology and Learning Annual National Conference,
National School Boards Association, "Learning and
Technology" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, Gartner Group, Annual National Conference on
the Future of Information Technology, "The Computer
in the Twenty-First Century" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, Sematech National Conference, "The Future
of Computer Technology" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, U.S. Telephone, Annual National Meeting, "How
to Save a Million American Lives a Year" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, Dupont-Merck, Annual National Research and
Development Conference, "The Future of Medicine" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, Special Libraries Association, Annual National
Meeting, "The Future of Books" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, Intergraph Users Group Annual National Meeting,
"Simulating Worlds Inside the Computer" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, Oracle Users Group Annual National Meeting,
"The Sixty-Four Squares of the Chessboard" |
1993 |
Keynote
Address, The 1993 Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) Computer Science National Conference, "The
Emergence of True Machine Intelligence in the Twenty-
First Century" |
1992 |
Keynote
Address, Association for Information and Image Management,
"A Strategy for Competitiveness" |
1992 |
Keynote
Address, The Sixth Annual International Literacy and
Technology Conference, "Education in the Age of
Intelligent Machines" |
1992 |
Presentation
with Senator Edward Kennedy, High Tech Issues Seminar,
Kennedy School of Government, "Economic Competitiveness
and Software" |
1991 |
Keynote
Address, Speech Tech Annual Conference, "Automatic
Speech Recognition: The First Hundred Years (1920-2020)" |
1989 |
Keynote
Address, SHARE (Association of users of IBM mainframe
computers) Annual National Convention, "The History
of the Computer" |
1989 |
Keynote
Address, Art and Science Summer Festival, California
Museum of Science and Industry, "Creativity: Where
Art and Science Meet" |
1989 |
Keynote
Address, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers) National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Applications, "From the Mind's Eye to the Marketplace" |
1987 |
Distinguished
Lecturer, Harvard Business School, "Technology
Innovation: From the Sandbox to the Showroom" |
1987 |
Distinguished
Lecturer, MIT, "Five Trends Shaping our Future
World: Machine Intelligence, Parallel Processing, Silicon
Compilation, Hardware to Software and Analog to Digital" |
1987 |
Convocation
Address, Berklee College of Music, "The Changing
Face of Music Creation" |
1986 |
Keynote
Address on Innovation, White House Conference on Small
Business, "Innovation and the Second Industrial
Revolution" |
1986 |
Principal
presenter on "WorldNet," series of three satellite
broadcasts on Artificial Intelligence to 15 Nations,
United States Information Agency |
1984 |
Keynote
Address, IEEE National Conference on Computer Design,
"The Coming Age of Intelligent Machines" |
1982 |
Commencement
Address, Hofstra University, "Visions of the Future" |
Selected
Papers, Articles and Chapters
Articles
in a variety of magazines, including Scientific
American, Psychology Today, Time Magazine, Business
2.0, Esquire, PC Magazine, Talk magazine, Forbes
ASAP, CIO, and many others in the years 1999 - 2002
"Piece of Mind",
Forbes ASAP, February 22, 1999
"The Big Crash of
Convergence", Forbes ASAP, April 1997
"When Will HAL Understand
What We Are Saying? Computer Speech Recognition
and Understanding", Chapter in HALs
Legacy, edited by David Stork (MIT Press 1996)
"Why I am Building
Reading Machines Again", Braille Monitor, 1996
"The Sixty-Four Squares
of the Chessboard", Braille Monitor, 1994
"The End of Handicaps",
World Congress on Technology, December, 1991
"A Strategy for Innovation
in the Second Industrial Revolution", The Hudson
Institute, October, 1990
"Beyond Pattern Recognition",
Byte, December, 1989
"The Application of
Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition and Knowledge
Engineering to the Creation of Written Documents",
Speech Tech, April, 1988
"A Large Vocabulary
Voice Activated Word Processor", Speech Tech,
April, 1987
"The Second Industrial
Revolution", The Boston Museum of Science,
January, 1987
"The Technology of
the Kurzweil Voice Writer", Byte, March, 1986
"The Commercialization
of Artificial Intelligence", Boston Computer
Society, February, 1986
"What is Artificial
Intelligence Anyway?", American Scientist,
May-June, 1985
Testimony - Subcommittee,
House Committee on Science and Technology, Rep.
James Scheuer, (D-NY), Chairman, October 18, 1977,
Washington, D.C.
Testimony - House Subcommittee
on Select Education, Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.),
Chairman, April 26, 1977, Washington, D.C.
Testimony - Senate Subcommittee
on Handicapped, Sen. Jennings Randolph, (D-W. Va.),
Chairman, February 8, 1977, Washington, D.C.
"A Technical Overview
of Reading for the Blind", Proceedings, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual
Meeting, Boston, MA, 1967
"International Analysis
of Music", Tech Engineering News, February,
1967
"Automatic Perception
of Speech", Tech Engineering News, October,
1966 |
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