Kurzweil is an author, inventor, and futurist. He invented the first CCD flatbed scanner, the omni-font optical character recognition,the print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the commercial text-to-speech synthesizer, the music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
He founded his own company -The Medical Learning Company- which sold interactive computer education program for doctors and a computer-simulated patient. In 1996 he also started Kurzweil Educational Systems where he developed new pattern-recognition-based computer technologies that helped people with disabilities.
By the wall street journal he is described as the "restless genius"!
I was amazed by what he could develop for disabled people and how interested he was to help them. It reminded me of the time when I did Kanine for Kids, which is a program for adults or children that have disabilities. My part was being a puppy raiser and training the dog to do certain tricks.
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