Visionary Awardees Kurzweil, Warrior, Blank, Diamandis: hear what they had to say about their achievements

June 28, 2013

Ray Kurzweil, Padmasree Warrior, Peter Diamandis and Steve Blank joined the ranks of Silicon Valley Visionary Award winners Wednesday night at a gala event in Los Altos Hills. They join a Who’s Who of tech and venture investment that have been honored since 1998, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, John Doerr and Jerry Yang.

Kurzweil, 65, has been a prolific inventor of such things as the first music synthesizer capable of recreating grand pianos and other instruments, the first print-to-speech reader for the blind and the first CCD flatbed scanner. He has written best-selling books, including The Age of Spirituality Machines and The Singularity Is Near. Today he is director of engineering at Google. […]

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