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Ray Kurzweil

Dec 20, 2012 at

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On Monday, futurist and visionary inventor Ray Kurzweil joined Google as its new director of engineering, to work on projects related to machine learning and language processing. We’ll talk to Kurzweil about his new position and his latest book, “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.”

More: About the book “How to Create a Mind” – at IndieBound.org
More: ‘The Singularity is Near’ – Movie based on Ray Kurzweil’s book

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Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering for Google and author of "How to Create a Mind" and other books including "The Singularity is Near" and "The Age of Spiritual Machines"

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