Kurzweil is a surname of German and Yiddish origin with the literal meaning "short while" or "short time" which in modern German only occurs as the adjective/adverb kurzweilig, meaning "entertaining" or "diverting". Notable people with the surname include:
Edith Kurzweil (1925–2016), American writer and editor
Jaroslav Kurzweil (1926–2022), Czech mathematician
Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), Austrian painter and printmaker
Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist
Kurzweil Music Systems, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments
Kurzweil Educational Systems, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces reading and writing software
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surname include: Adele Kurzweil (1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), American writer Amy Kurzweil (born 1986), American cartoonist...
Raymond Kurzweil (/ˈkɜːrzwaɪl/, KURZ-wyle; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in...
Amy Kurzweil (born October 23, 1986) is an American cartoonist and writer. In 2016, she published the graphic memoir Flying Couch. Her second graphic novel...
Kurzweil Music Systems is an American company that produces electronic musical instruments. It was founded in 1982 by Stevie Wonder (musician), Ray Kurzweil...
The Kurzweil K250, manufactured by Kurzweil Music Systems, was an early electronic musical instrument which produced sound from sampled sounds compressed...
Another significant contributor to wider circulation of the notion was Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book The Singularity Is Near, predicting singularity by 2045. Some...
The Kurzweil K2000 is a digital synthesizer and music workstation produced by Kurzweil Music Systems between 1991 and 2000 in a variety of standard configurations...
Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil (12 October 1867, Bisenz – 9 May 1916, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna...
future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. The book builds on the ideas introduced in Kurzweil's previous books, The Age of Intelligent Machines...
Adele "Dele" Kurzweil (31 January 1925 – 9 September 1942) was an Austrian girl of Jewish origin who was tracked down by Nazi Germany and murdered in Auschwitz...
Jaroslav Kurzweil (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈkurtsvajl], 7 May 1926, Prague – 17 March 2022) was a Czech mathematician. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
law" to describe ideas like those put forth by Moravec, Kurzweil and others. According to Kurzweil, since the beginning of evolution, more complex life forms...
Arthur Kurzweil (born 1951) is an American author, educator, editor, writer, publisher, and illusionist. Kurzweil was born in New York City. He was raised...
Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972) (Hebrew: ברוך קורצווייל) was a pioneer of Israeli literary criticism. Kurzweil was born in Brtnice, Moravia (now Czechoslovakia)...
Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) is an American-based company that provides educational technology. Kurzweil Education provides...
Allen Kurzweil (born December 16, 1960) is an American novelist, journalist, editor, and lecturer. He is the author of four works of fiction, most notably...
April 2023. Kurzweil 2005, p. 260. Kurzweil, Ray (5 August 2005a), "Long Live AI", Forbes, archived from the original on 14 August 2005: Kurzweil describes...
Human Intelligence is a non-fiction book by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil about artificial intelligence and the future course of humanity. First...
invention. The patent was acquired by IBM. In 1974, Ray Kurzweil started the company Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. and continued development of omni-font...
Sanjay Ghemawat Al Gore John L. Hennessy Urs Hölzle Salar Kamangar Ray Kurzweil Ann Mather Alan Mulally Rick Osterloh Sundar Pichai (CEO) Ruth Porat (CFO)...
Robot designer Hans Moravec, cyberneticist Kevin Warwick, and inventor Ray Kurzweil have predicted that humans and machines will merge in the future into cyborgs...
We Merge with AI is an upcoming 2024 non-fiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil. It is the sequel to his 2005 bestseller book The Singularity Is Near....
as the new merged company name. The original ScanSoft had its roots in Kurzweil Computer Products. In April 2021, Microsoft announced it would buy Nuance...
Edith Kurzweil (born 1924 Vienna - died February 6, 2016 New York City) was an American writer, and editor of Partisan Review. In 1995, she married William...
accessibility tool Kurzweil 1000 (for the visually impaired) and Kurzweil 3000-firefly (for those with reading or writing difficulty) from Kurzweil Educational...
non-fiction book about artificial intelligence by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. This was his first book and the Association of American Publishers named...
1001/archneur.60.10.1369. PMID 14568806. Kurzweil, Raymond (1993). The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life. Three Rivers Press. Kurzweil, Raymond (2004). Fantastic Voyage:...
about brains, both human and artificial, by the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. First published in hardcover on November 13, 2012 by Viking Press it became...
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