He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health …

Mar 17, 2026 · Ray Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948, Queens, New York, U.S.) is an American computer scientist and futurist who pioneered pattern-recognition technology and proselytized the …

Feb 11, 2026 · As an AI visionary, he’s spent years arguing that humans alive today could be the first generation to escape death entirely, not through philosophy or faith, but through exponential …

Jul 11, 2025 · Ray Kurzweil is a computer scientist, inventor and futurist who has worked on artificial intelligence for the past six decades. His inventions span from text-to-speech synthesis to electronic...

Jun 13, 2024 · Just minutes before we met, we both learned that Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize–winning psychologist and one of Kurzweil’s intellectual jousting partners, had suffered that …

Oct 10, 2025 · Kurzweil has been an innovator in language recognition technologies, developing advances and founding companies that have served people who are blind or low-vision, and helped …

Published by Ray Kurzweil — the inventor, best-selling author, and futurist — the collections explore themes from his landmark non-fiction books. This official website is also home to the complete set of …

Sep 18, 2025 · Ray Kurzweil predicts A.I. will reach human-level intelligence by 2029. Courtesy Kurzweil Technologies. Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, inventor and futurist—featured on this year’s...

Mar 7, 2026 · He’s been my mentor, my co-founder, and one of the most influential people in my life. Together, we built Singularity University — him as Chancellor, me as Chairman — to prepare …

Ray Kurzweil Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity and is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists.