Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors
Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He received
the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the nation’s largest award in
invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National
Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology,
from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He has also
received scores of other national and international awards,
including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University’s
top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News,
Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award
from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received
twelve honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S.
presidents. He has received seven national and international
film awards. Ray’s books include The Age of Intelligent
Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and Fantastic Voyage:
Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Four of Ray’s books have been
national best sellers and The Age of Spir