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Ray Kurzweil: Engineering the Brain

The bold futurist and author of The New York Times best-seller The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain to create more intelligent machines.

Kurzweil invented the first optical character recognition (OCR) software for transforming the written word into data, the first print-to-speech software for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and many electronic instruments. He is the author of a new book, How to Create a Mind.











When: Tue., Nov. 20, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: From $29
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The bold futurist and author of The New York Times best-seller The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain to create more intelligent machines.

Kurzweil invented the first optical character recognition (OCR) software for transforming the written word into data, the first print-to-speech software for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and many electronic instruments. He is the author of a new book, How to Create a Mind.

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