
| | | | In Depth: Ray Kurzweil Author: Ray Kurzweil Format: Audio Download Audio Length: 2 hours and 57 min. Rating:  Price: $1.95 
Publisher's Summary: A conversation with writer, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil, the founder, chairman and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies. Topics include: expanding human intelligence with machines; human pattern recognition; inventing machines to help people with sensory disabilities; and artificial intelligence.During this program, Kurzweil responds to viewer calls and e-mail. Ray Kurzweil is the author of several books on the subject of artificial intelligence, including The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, and his latest, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. His companies have made major breakthroughs in print, sound, and speech recognition technologies. As a result of his work, he was awarded the 1999 National Medal of Technology by President Clinton. |