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AES Heyser Lecture Series to Feature Kurzweil

New York City (October 10-13, 2003)---The AES Heyser Lecture Series taking place on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Hall 1E of the Jacob Javits Center will feature Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human intelligence. Kurzweil was the principal developer of a long list of firsts: the first omni-font optical character recognition; the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind; the first CCD flat-bed scanner; the first text-to-speech synthesizer; the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Kurzweil has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, medical simulation, and cybernetic art. All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. His book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, was named Best Computer Science Book of 1990.

His current best-selling book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, has been published in nine languages and achieved the #1 best selling book on Amazon.com in the categories of "Science" and "Artificial Intelligence."