Ray Kurzweil

Pioneer in the fields of OCR, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech-recognition technology. Author of "The Age of Intelligent Machines" and "The Age of Spiritual Machines" Reciepient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize.

See http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html for a biography of Ray. http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/ has pointers to the cyber artist and cyber poet, both examples of 'intelligent' machines.

Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence Network is a Web showcase for the ideas and technologies of leading visionaries. http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html