"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Futurist Raymond Kurzweil has a new book coming that spells out why he believes that nanorobots are the ...

In what looks like a match made in technology heaven, futurist / inventor Raymond Kurzweil has announced that he will be joining Google as the company’s new director of engineering. A photo of Raymond ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Raymond Kurzweil is a Director for Engineering in the Google with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Speech as a Founder, Chairman and ...

There are those who eagerly await things such as Apple's OS X or the latest build of Linux or whatever twist Microsoft has in store for its windowed world. And then there are others whose interest in ...

Raymond Kurzweil was going through the 20-odd messages left on his answering machine when his ears pricked up upon hearing the voice of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Lester Thurow.

Raymond Kurzweil invented text-to-speech synthesis and the electronic music keyboard, and last year he received the National Medal of Technology. Despite these accolades, he says something has always ...

WHAT LED TO THE PROJECT: By age five, Raymond Kurzweil knew he wanted to be an inventor. Building things in his Queens, N.Y., home out of spare parts and Erector sets gave him what he describes as a ...

Futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil, pictured here on April 28, 2009, said on Friday that he is going to work as director of engineering at Google to help "turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' ...

Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil, never a man to shy away from bold predictions about the future, says he believes that advances in medical technology will enable human beings to be immortal ...