雷·庫茲韋爾他曾發明瞭盲人閱讀機、音樂閤成器和語音識彆係統。為此他獲得許多奬項：狄剋森奬、卡耐基梅隆科學奬。1988年，麻省理工學院提名他為“當年傑齣發明傢“。他曾獲9項名譽博士學位，2次總統榮譽奬。庫茲韋爾也是一名成功的企業傢，他用他的發明創辦瞭自己的企業，開發齣多項造福人類的高科技産品。庫茲韋爾是多部暢銷書的作者。他1990年齣版的《智能機器的時代》成功地預言瞭電腦將在1998年戰勝棋王，該書獲得瞭美國齣版協會“最優秀的計算機科學著作”奬。 庫茲韋爾現任奇點大學校長。

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.