The Age of Spiritual Machines

About the Author

Web Links for Relevant Topics

WEB SITES FOR COMPANIES FOUNDED BY RAY KURZWEIL

Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. (creator of print-to-speech reading systems for persons with reading disabilities and visual impairment)

Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.: (creator of Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet and other software projects)

The dictation division of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (formerly Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc.), creator of speech recognition and natural language software systems

The overall Lernout & Hauspie web site

Kurzweil Music Systems, Inc., creator of computer-based music synthesizers, sold to Young Chang in 1990

TextBridge Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Formerly Kurzweil OCR from Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. (sold to Xerox Corp. in 1980)

ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH

ASTRONOMY/PHYSICS

BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

BRAIN IMAGING RESEARCH

Brain Research Web Page, Jeffrey H. Lake Research
Applications of brain research
Amiram Grinvald's web site: Imaging the Brain in Action
The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center
The McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center
Optical Imaging, Inc., Home Page
Research Imaging Center: Solving the Mysteries of the Mind, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Visualization and Analysis of 3D Functional Brain Images, by Finn Å rup Nielsen, Institute of Mathematical Modeling, Section for Digital Signal Processing, former Electronics Institute, Technical University of Denmark
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Whole Brain Atlas

COMPUTER BUSINESS/MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

COMPUTERS AND ART/CREATIVITY

COMPUTERS AND CONSCIOUSNESS/SPIRITUALITY

COMPUTING SCIENCE RESEARCH

Defining Virtual Reality, Industry Consortium in the Institute for Communication Research, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Computer Games: Past, Present, Future
The Haptics Community Web Page
Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment and Defense
Physics News Update Number 219 -- The Density of Data. A link to Lambertus Hesselink's research on crystal computing
Student cracks encryption code. A link to an article in USA Today on how Ian Goldberg, the graduate student from the University of California, cracked the 40-bit encryption code

Autonomous Agents

Agent Web Links

Computer Vision

Computer Vision Research Groups

DNA Computing

Expert Systems/Knowledge Engineering

Knowledge Engineering, Engineering Management Graduate Program at Christian Brothers University: Online Resources to a Variety of Links

Genetic Algorithms/Evolutionary Computation

Knowledge Management

Nanotechnology

Neural Implants/Neural Prosthetics

Membrane and Neurophysics Department, the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
"Neural Prosthetics Come of Age as Research Continues," by Robert Finn, in the Scientist. A link to an article on the use of neural prosthetics in helping patients with neurological disorders
Physics of ComputationCarver Mead's Group

Neural Nets

Quantum Computing

Supercomputers

FUTURE VISIONS

The Extropy Site: A web site and online magazine covering a wide range of advanced and future technologies.
ACM 97 "The Next 50 Years" (Association for Computing Machinery)
SETI Institute web site
WTA: The World Transhumanist Association

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND LUDDITES/NEOLUDDITE MOVEMENT

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil
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