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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ray Kurzweil

1948 - Today

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Raymond Kurzweil (, KURZ-wyle; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. 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 3,332,165 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Kurzweil is the 18th most popular computer scientist (down from 14th in 2019), the 1,314th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,268th 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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  • 42

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  • 6.15

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  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ray Kurzweil ranks 18 out of 201Before him are John McCarthy, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Vint Cerf, Edgar F. Codd, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. After him are Ken Thompson, Dorothy Vaughan, Marvin Minsky, Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, and John Backus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ray Kurzweil ranks 65Before him are Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, William Gibson, Rory Gallagher, Svetlana Savitskaya, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. After him are Tom Wilkinson, Agnieszka Holland, Arie Haan, Claude Jade, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and Hans Rosling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 1,314 out of 18,182Before him are Gordon Moore (1929), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Benjamin Bloom (1913), Sacagawea (1780), Lance Armstrong (1971), and Edward Emerson Barnard (1857). After him are Kenny Rogers (1938), Izzy Stradlin (1962), Max Wright (1943), Queen Noor of Jordan (1951), Linda McCartney (1941), and Douglas McGregor (1906).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 10Before him are Donald Knuth (1938), George Dantzig (1914), John McCarthy (1927), Larry Page (1973), Vint Cerf (1943), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944). After him are Ken Thompson (1943), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Marvin Minsky (1927), Alan Kay (1940), John Backus (1924), and Ward Cunningham (1949).