biography
| name: |
Kurzweil, Raymond C
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pronunciation:
[kertzviyl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| Computer scientist, a pioneer of reading technology, born in New York City, USA. Since the 1970s he has led the development of the first optical character recognition device, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first flat-bed scanner, the first orchestral music synthesizer, and a large vocabulary automatic speech recognizer. He has formed then sold-on a number of successful companies including Kurwzeil Music Systems (1982–90), Kurzweil Applied Intelligence (1982–97), and Kurzweil Educational Systems (1996–98). In a joint venture with the American Board of Family Practice in 1997 he formed the Medical Learning Company based on his Medical Synthesizer System. He recieved the major prize for inventors, the Lemelson-MIT Award, in 2001. |
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