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 20060925 Monday September 25, 2006

Ray Kurzweil to Keynote SC2006

Ray Kurzweil, described as "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal, and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes, will be the keynote speaker at SC06. Kurzweill was the principal developer 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.

The title of his speech will be "The Coming Merger of Biological and Non Biological Intelligence." You can read about his talk and other coming hightlights in the SC2006 September Newsletter.

Registration is now open for Sun's HPC Consortium customer event in Palm Harbor, Floridia, which takes place November 11-12, just prior to SC2006. Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( September 25, 2006 08:00 AM ) Permalink

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