A short PPT presentation of Ray Kurzweil for Computer Information Systems 101.

1. Ray KurzweilInventor * visionary * CIS 101 * Fall 2009 * Bruce C. Evans

3. Learned about computers from uncle ~ engineer at Bell Labs

4. A technical prodigy & avid reader of science fiction

5. Wrote computer program at 14 ~ used by IBM

6. “I’ve Got a Secret” appearance at 17 ~ performs song his computer wrote

8. Sold for $500,000 + royalties in today’s dollars at age 20

9. Graduated MIT ~ degrees in Computer Science & Literature

10. Married wife Sonya, a psychologist ~ 2 children at Harvard and Stanford

12. 1999 National Medal of Technology ~ From President of the United States

13. 2002 National Inventors Hall of Fame

15. 1982 Kurzweil Music Systems ~ First music synthesizer capable of duplicating orchestral instruments

16. 1982 Kurzweil Applied Intelligence ~ First large vocabulary speech recognition software

17. 1999 FatKat ~ Pattern recognition for financial market transaction decisions

18. The Singularity ~ concept of exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology