In 1968, during his sophomore year at MIT, Kurzweil started a company that used a computer program to match high school students with colleges.

In 1974, Kurzweil started the company Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. and led development of the first omni-font optical character recognition system — a computer program capable of recognizing text written in any normal font.

Around the same time, Kurzweil started KurzweilCyberArt. com — a website featuring computer programs to assist the creative art process.

In 1974 Ray Kurzweil started the company Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. and continued development of omni-font OCR, which could recognize text printed in virtually any font.

** Kurzweil Educational Systems, a company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces reading and writing software

Kurzweil Music Systems was founded in the same year, and in 1984, the Kurzweil K250 was unveiled.

Kurzweil Music Systems was sold to Korean musical instrument manufacturer Young Chang in 1990.

Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

Concurrent with Kurzweil Music Systems, Kurzweil created the company Kurzweil Applied Intelligence ( KAI ) to develop computer speech recognition systems for commercial use.

He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988, helping to develop the Kurzweil K2000.

In 1982, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence and Dragon Systems released speech recognition products.

* Kurzweil Music Systems

Fairlight CMI III, Marion Systems MSR-2, Wersi bass synthesizer, Kurzweil K2000RS, Alesis Andromeda A6, Hammond 102200, Clavia Nord Lead 2 and the Octave Cat

* 1980 — Xerox buys Kurzweil Computer Products and runs it as Xerox Imaging Systems ( XIS ), and later ScanSoft.

Previously, Lernout & Hauspie had acquired these speech technology companies: BBS, Berkeley Speech Technologies ( 1996 ), Centigram Communications Corporation, Dragon Systems ( 2000 ), FDC, and Kurzweil Applied Intelligence ( 1998 ).

Kurzweil Music Systems is a company that produces electronic musical instruments for professionals and home users.

Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

In 2008, all K26xx series synthesizers were discontinued by Kurzweil Music Systems, although inventory still remains ( as of August 2008 ).

** Kurzweil Music Systems, a company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments

In 1974, Raymond Kurzweil founded the Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. to develop the first omni-font optical character recognition system — a computer program capable of recognizing text written in any normal font.

* 1974 — Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc founded to develop the first omni-font optical character recognition system

After a 1982 meeting with Stevie Wonder, in which the latter lamented the divide in capabilities and qualities between electronic synthesizers and traditional musical instruments, Kurzweil was inspired to create a new generation of music synthesizers capable of accurately duplicating the sounds of real instruments.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil has speculated that by the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

Later, in 1957, the Czech mathematician Jaroslav Kurzweil discovered a new definition of this integral elegantly similar in nature to Riemann's original definition which he named the gauge integral ; the theory was developed by Ralph Henstock.

It has been speculated by futurologist Ray Kurzweil the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

Kurzweil suggests that this will open up all sorts of new possibilities, including manipulation of the physical constants, inter-dimensional travel, and controlling the fate of the universe.

In 2005, the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that over a 40 year period between 2005 and 2045, most human beings will gradually evolve into a super race of immortal androids called Transhumans with super-bodies and super-brains ( the super brains of the humanoid androids will have greater capacity not only in and of themselves, but also because they will be able to function more efficiently by storing some of their mental capacity in the cloud of the future greatly expanded Internet through brain-computer interfacing ) by gradually replacing their biological cells with new cells having a more efficient cellular energy processing system that will be based on nanobots manufactured using nanotechnology.

In Spring 2008, Kurzweil launched the PC3 Performance Controller, which has next generation VAST synthesis technology derived from the K2xxx series but vastly improved with new features, new algorithms, virtual analog synthesis, sequencer, powerful effects processor based on Kurzweil KSP8 unit, and overall better sounds than previous Kurzweil synths.

By the 1980s, many of the most famous names had ceased home production, but the Electone successfully transitioned to the modern world of digital synthesizers, now competing with such new electronic products as Moog Music, Wersi, and later Kurzweil.

Whenever a technology approaches some kind of a barrier, according to Kurzweil, a new technology will be invented to allow us to cross that barrier.

According to Kurzweil, since the beginning of evolution, more complex life forms have been evolving exponentially faster, with shorter and shorter intervals between the emergence of radically new life forms, such as human beings, who have the capacity to engineer ( intentionally to design with efficiency ) a new trait which replaces relatively blind evolutionary mechanisms of selection for efficiency.

* Kurzweil also claims that the phrase " new Dark Age " is misleading, since Huebner has not ruled out such a technologically-stalled " Dark Age " being also a " New Renaissance " in which creativity flourishes as people move their skills to other areas of human culture such as the arts and cultural creativity.

Kurzweil's next major business venture began in 1978, when Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

Products include the Kurzweil 1000 text-to-speech converter software program, which enables a computer to read electronic and scanned text aloud to blind or visually impaired users, and the Kurzweil 3000 program, which is a multifaceted electronic learning system that helps with reading, writing, and study skills.

In June 2005, Kurzweil introduced the " Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader " ( K-NFB Reader )— a pocket-sized device consisting of a digital camera and computer unit.

In 1978 Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

Current members of Alcor include nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler, Internet pioneer Ralph Merkle, engineer Keith Henson and his family, MIT professor Marvin Minsky, aging researcher Aubrey de Grey, mathematician Edward O. Thorp, computer security CEO Kenneth Weiss, casino owner Don Laughlin, inventor Ray Kurzweil, film director Charles Matthau, futurists Max More and Natasha Vita-More, entrepreneurs Saul Kent, Luke Nosek, Magali & Stephan Beauregard and Future Electronics founder Robert Miller.

Moravec talks in terms of MIPS, not " cps ", which is a non-standard term Kurzweil introduced .</ ref > He uses this figure to predict the necessary hardware will be available sometime between 2015 and 2025, if the current exponential growth in computer power continues.

According to the brain power estimates used by Kurzweil ( and Moravec ), this computer should be capable of supporting a simulation of a bee brain, but despite some interest no such simulation exists.

* Ramona ( computer program ), a fictional computer avatar created by Ray Kurzweil

** 2019 – $ 1, 000 computer will match the processing power of the human brain – Ray Kurzweil

** 2055 – $ 1, 000 computer will match the processing power of all human brains on Earth – Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil supports this final postulate with logarithmic graphs of the chronology of important events in the history of the Universe ( i. e. -the Big Bang, the origin of life, the birth of the human race, the creation of the first computer ).

Kurzweil foresees the computers of the future using three-dimensional computer chips composed of nanotubes.

As futurist and computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil has noted, " There are physical limits to computation, but they're not very limiting.

* Ray Kurzweil, a computer pioneer and self-proclaimed Singularitarian, argues in The Singularity Is Near that the coming Singularity requires that Earth be the first planet on which sentient, technology-using life evolved.