Ray Kurzweil

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• Ray Kurzweil On Speech Recognition, Music Synthesis, Virtual Reality & The Future

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 542
  Click here to view the embedded video. This is a deep interview with a deep guy – Ray Kurzweil – about some deep ideas. In the early 80’s, Kurzweil developed the Kurzweil K250 digital synthesizer, which developed into one of the most influential digital synthesis platforms. Kurzweil sold his music ...
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• Genetically Enhanced Humans?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  According to Oxford Today: The University Magazine , they’re coming: ‘There is a significant chance that my own children will live beyond the age of 120′, says Julian Savulescu, Director of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. ‘Thereafter we could be looking at two- or three-fold increases in ...
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• Singularity University Kicks Off First Executive Program Tomorrow

  
  Singularity University — Authority: 401
  After a great inaugural Graduate Studies Program this summer, SU is readying to welcome the first Executive Program class on Friday. SU chancellor Ray Kurweil will set the stage for the program in his opening keynote tomorrow evening. With world-class faculty, a inter-disciplinary, 9-day curriculum, and a few ...
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• Deep Inside DARPA

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Dr. James Hughes interviews Michael Belfiore on his book (The Department of Mad Scientists) about DARPA.
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• ‘The Evolution of Confusion’ by Dan Dennett, AAI 2009

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Dan Dennett talks about purposely-confusing theology and how it’s used. He also describes his new project interviewing clergyman who secretly don’t believe anymore, and introduces a new term: “Deepity.” Dan Dennett is the author of many excellent books, including “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural ...
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• Ray Kurzweil’s second talk at Singularity Summit 2009 — Critics of the Singularity

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Award-winning futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil on common criticisms of his concept of the Law of Accelerating Returns. Uploaded by Singularity Institute Media Director Michael Anissimov. Ray Kurzweil’s second talk at Singularity Summit 2009 — Critics of the Singularity from Michael Anissimov on ...
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• Larry Smarr - Supercomputing and the Human Brain

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Larry Smarr discusses the state of the art in supercomputing, with a focus on how current computation compares to the human brain and when supercomputers will surpass human processing power. Current supercomputers are estimated to match the human visual cortex and will reach human brain’s computational ability ...
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• Congrats Ray!

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  Via KurzweilAI.net – Ray Kurzweil to receive The Economist’s Innovation Award KurzweilAI.net, Oct. 29, 2009 The Economist’s Innovation Award for Computing and Telecommunications will be given to Ray Kurzweil today in London for contributions to  optical character recognition ( OCR ) and speech ...
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• Ray Kurzweil Wins The Economist’s 2009 Innovation Award

  
  Singularity University — Authority: 401
  Great news! SU co-founder and chancellor, Ray Kurzweil was just selected to receive the 2009 Economist Innovation Award , in the category of Computing and Telecoms , for his optical character recognition and speech recognition technology. Ray is one of just eight individuals worldwide chosen to receive what is ...
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• Rich may evolve into separate species

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 480
  The super-rich may evolve into a separate species entirely in the future due to enhancements in biotechnology and robotic engineering, American futurologist Paul Saffo has said. By Amy Willis Telegraph | Mr Saffo, from San Francisco, says in the future people will be able to grow their own replacement ...
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• Ian Goldin: Navigating our Global Future

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet realize the possibility of improved life for everyone…
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• The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  With over a billion users, today’s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributors, ...
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• quantum jump, I’m right at your doorstep

  
  Periscope Depth — Authority: 122
  On Wednesday I heard Ray Kurzweil speak. Kurzweil gave an abbreviated version of the gospel he’s been preaching for the last twenty years: that technology evolves on exponential curves, whereas intelligence has evolved to make linear predictions. “If you can measure the underlying properties of an information ...
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• FastPencil: Get Great Ideas Kindle and Print-Ready

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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• FastPencil: Get Great Ideas Kindle- and Print-Ready

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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• Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity.

  
  Codespanish — Authority: 98
  Translated into Spanish by Jose Fernandez CalvoReviewed by Luis Puente AcevesInformation technology grows in an exponential manner. It’s not linear. And our intuition is linear. When we walked through the savanna a thousand years ago we made linear predictions where that animal would be. And that worked fine. It’s ...
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• Transcendent Man Will Be Screened at AFI Fest, Nov 5

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 598
  Transcendent Man explores Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity. AFI Fest hails itself as the definitive survey of the year’s most significant films. I’m not sure if that makes AFI a little conceited but it certainly gives an ego boost to those films that get screened there. So I’m happy to announce that ...
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• Handheld Learning 2009, Day 3, Research Strand and Grand Finale

  
  Ubiquitous Thoughts — Authority: 103
  The last day of Handheld Learning 2009 was also my busiest one, as I spent most of the day chairing the mobile learning research strand. We had 22 interesting papers from a variety of speakers, who came from countries including India, Mexico, the U.S., the U.K., Italy, Scotland, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The ...
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• Henry Markram Builds a Brain in a Supercomputer

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved — soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they’re made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain’s 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.
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• Kurzweil’s Transcendent Man

  
  Education Futures — Authority: 110
  We haven’t had an opportunity to screen Ray Kurzweil ’s the film, Transcendent Man , yet, but The Futurist magazine published a preview : Scene: A movie theater on the west side of Manhattan during the Tribeca Film Festival. The audience teems with hip New York film students eager to see the world premiere of ...
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