Gppgle Biography
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1928. This work is a record of Johann Sebastian Bach's career, not a critical appreciation of his music. His personality has been so buried
under the towering pyramid of his manuscript that, for most of us, he is but faintly visible on a background of the Bachgesellschaft folios.
Contents: family; school; apprenticeship; young organist; Weimar; Cothen; Das jetzt florirende Leipzig; director musices; battle of the prefects;
last years.
Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc.
magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS selected Ray as
one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. He is considered one of the world’s leading
inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a 30-year track record of accurate predictions.
Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech
reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other
orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
Ray Kurzweil and Stevie Wonder, with a Kurzweil Music synthesizer.
Kurzweil is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world’s largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of
Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the
National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office.
He has received 20 honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Kurzweil has authored 7 books, 5 of which have been national
bestsellers. The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best-selling book on Amazon in science.
Ray Kurzweil’s book, The Singularity Is Near, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and
philosophy. His latest New York Times bestseller is How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.
His website, KurzweilAI.net, tracks daily breakthroughs in science and technology and has over three million new readers annually.
In 2012, Ray Kurzweil was appointed a Director of Engineering at Google, heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural
language understanding.
An interesting read but is seriously lacking in detail and contains many mistakes. Could have been better researched. Also at times it becomes
more of a biography of people Kubrick knew than it is about Kubrick. Still, its good to read about the man's life in such a linear fashion.
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