- Kurzweil is a pioneer in the field of human-computer interfacing, and has also developed music synthesizers that successfully re-create the sound of acoustic instruments.
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002 for the Kurzweil Reading Machine, the first device to transform print into computer-spoken words.
- Founder of Kurzweil Technologies.
- Cousin of Allen Kurzweil.
- Became an inventor at age 5.
- Father of Amy Kurzweil.
- Discovered the computer at age 12.
- Co founder of Ray & Terry's Longevity Products.
- He is known for taking over 200 pills a day.
- In a 2009 interview for Rolling Stone Magazine, Ray said he would create a clone of his late father from his DNA.
- Author of the book "The Singularity Is Near".
- Is agnostic about the existence of a soul.
- Is an Employer at Google.
- He will be cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in the hope that future medical technology will revive him.
- Creator of the Law Of Accelerating Returns.
- Invented the CCD flatbed scanner, the reading machine for the blind, optical character recognition and the commercial text to speech synthesizer.
- Described as "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes.
- Wrote a fiction book called Danielle Adventures of a Superheroine,.
- Described as "restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal.
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