2025 | Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil (’70, Computer Science and Literature) is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google. Kurzweil also served on the MIT Board of Trustees from 2005- 2012. Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software.
