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Mar 31, 2016 · Futurist Ray Kurzweil made a thought-provoking presentation at the recent MD&M in Anaheim, a trade show for medical device companies. His presentation dealt with the accelerating rate of technical progress, predicting the future, and the human life span.
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The company that began as Kurzweil Computer Products has changed names and ownership over 21/2 decades. In 1980, it was purchased by Xerox and renamed Xerox Imaging Systems (XIS). Under that banner, Kurzweil developed up to five generations of the original Kurzweil Reading Machine, priced at about $22,000 in the early 1980s. Also in the 1980s, the ...
Although the product has changed dramatically in size, appearance, capability, and configuration, Kurzweil has been doing pretty much the same thing all along: developing computer products that provide access to the printed word to those who have problems reading standard print. With the formation of Kurzweil Educational Systems in 1996, that missi...
The company's two products—the Kurzweil 1000 (for users who are visually impaired) and the Kurzweil 3000 (for users with learning disabilities)—coexist harmoniously, sometimes converging, sometimes parallel, and sometimes borrowing from one another. The staff of 30 (about half of whom are engineers) includes some people who focus exclusively on the...
Since 1976, Kurzweil's product for reading has been reduced from the size of a washing machine to software that can be installed on any laptop. The price has dropped from approximately $100,000 (not actually for sale at that point) to about $1,000. Capabilities, however, have grown just as dramatically in the other direction. Today, the Kurzweil 10...
Dec 13, 2012 · The fact is, Ray has a system and this system is called the Law of Accelerating Returns. In his new book How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, Kurzweil points out that ...
Mar 23, 2009 · RAY KURZWEIL is CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. He led teams that built a pioneering print-to-speech reading machine, the first omni-font ("any" font) optical-character-recognition system, the ...
Caption: Stevie Wonder and Ray Kurzweil with the Kurzweil 250 Music Synthesizer in 1986. When asked how to bring down the cost of assistive technology, Kurzweil advised: "Use mainstream products and functions whenever possible." He said that it was ironic that some specialized technology has ultimately gone mainstream.
Jun 25, 2012 · The way the system works now, when a technician examines the MRI of a patient’s abdomen, in two dimensions, on a single screen, she compares and contrasts it with perhaps thousands or even tens of thousands of other images she has seen and writes a report to the physician explaining, on the basis of her memory and experience, what is normal ...
