Author

Books by Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, futurist, and author. He has been a principal developer of optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech recognition technology. His earlier books include The Age of Intelligent Machines and The Singularity Is Near. In 2012, the year How to Create a Mind was published, he joined Google as director of engineering focused on natural language understanding. He holds honorary degrees from numerous universities and has received the National Medal of Technology, among other awards.