雷·库兹韦尔他曾发明了盲人阅读机、音乐合成器和语音识别系统。为此他获得许多奖项：狄克森奖、卡耐基梅隆科学奖。1988年，麻省理工学院提名他为“当年杰出发明家“。他曾获9项名誉博士学位，2次总统荣誉奖。库兹韦尔也是一名成功的企业家，他用他的发明创办了自己的企业，开发出多项造福人类的高科技产品。库兹韦尔是多部畅销书的作者。他1990年出版的《智能机器的时代》成功地预言了电脑将在1998年战胜棋王，该书获得了美国出版协会“最优秀的计算机科学著作”奖。 库兹韦尔现任奇点大学校长。

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.