Ray Kurzweil. Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (/ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and is a director of engineering at Google. Aside from futurology, 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, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, as has been displayed in his vast collection of public talks, wherein he has shared his primarily optimistic outlooks on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. Life, inventions, and business career[edit] Early life[edit] Ray Kurzweil grew up in the New York City borough of Queens. He was born to secular Jewish parents who had escaped Austria just before the onset of World War II.
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Home | Kurzweil. People Who Are Change The World. Kim Dotcom. German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom (né Schmitz;[3] born 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble[4] and Kim Tim Jim Vestor,[5] is a Finnish-German Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand.[6] He rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a hacker and an Internet entrepreneur.[7] He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers.
He was convicted on eleven charges of computer fraud, ten charges of data espionage, and various other charges in 1998 for which he served a two-year suspended sentence.[7] In 2003, he was deported from Thailand to Germany, where he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and after five months in jail awaiting trial he received another 20 months suspended sentence.[8] In 2017, a New Zealand court ruled that Dotcom could be extradited to the US on fraud charges related to Megaupload. Prior to his arrest in New Zealand, he enjoyed a luxurious life. Legal investigations [edit] Kim Dotcom - Mr President.
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