As a young boy, Kurzweil had an inventory of parts from various construction toys he had been given and old electronic gadgets he'd collected from neighbors. Kurzweil decided at the age of five that he wanted to be an inventor. His father, Fredric, was a concert pianist, a noted conductor, and a music educator. His Unitarian church had the philosophy of many paths to the truth – his religious education consisted of studying a single religion for six months before moving on to the next. He was exposed via Unitarian Universalism to a diversity of religious faiths during his upbringing. He was born to secular Jewish parents who had emigrated from Austria just before the onset of World War II. He attended NYC Public Education Kingsbury Elementary School PS188. Kurzweil grew up in Queens, New York City. Life, inventions, and business career Early life
8 among the "most fascinating" entrepreneurs in the United States and called him " Edison's rightful heir". The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) included Kurzweil as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America" along with other inventors of the past two centuries. He has received 21 honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. In 2002 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for the application of technology to improve human-machine communication. He was the recipient of the $500 000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2001. Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States' highest honor in technology, from then President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. Raymond Kurzweil ( / ˈ k ɜːr z w aɪ l/ KURZ-wyle born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist.
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