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Ray Kurzweil

1948 - Today

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Raymond Kurzweil (, KURZ-wyle; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Kurzweil has received more than 3,727,879 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Ray Kurzweil is the 17th most popular computer scientist (up from 18th in 2019), the 1,351st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,314th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist who has been called "the restless genius." He has been a pioneer in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and text-to-speech synthesis.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ray Kurzweil ranks 17 out of 245. Before him are Linus Torvalds, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Edgar F. Codd, Marvin Minsky, Ivan Sutherland, and George Dantzig. After him are John Backus, Ken Thompson, Dorothy Vaughan, Vint Cerf, Guido van Rossum, and Alan Kay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ray Kurzweil ranks 76. Before him are Alan Parsons, Maye Musk, Steven Chu, Agnieszka Holland, Nathalie Baye, and Alia Al-Hussein. After him are René Arnoux, Dan Simmons, Hartmut Michel, William Daniel Phillips, Beppe Grillo, and Giorgio Parisi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 1,351 out of 20,380. Before him are John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Anthony Mann (1906), Robin Wright (1966), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), Anne Rice (1941), and Alan J. Heeger (1936). After him are Linda Lee Cadwell (1945), Frank Borman (1928), Mark Spitz (1950), John Mott (1865), Donald J. Cram (1919), and Don King (1931).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 10. Before him are Donald Knuth (1938), John McCarthy (1927), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Marvin Minsky (1927), Ivan Sutherland (1938), and George Dantzig (1914). After him are John Backus (1924), Ken Thompson (1943), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Alan Kay (1940), and Larry Page (1973).

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