Raymond Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of
optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, and
speech recognition technology. He is author of "The Age of Intelligent Machines" and "
The Age of Spiritual Machines", and a recipient of the
Lemelson-MIT Prize.
View a recent chat with Ray Kurzweil (http://www.iscid.org/arewespiritualmachines-chat.php)