There were some high school teachers. I remember a math teacher, Mr. Ewen — actually a math teacher in eighth grade, Mrs. Matwell, who got excited about my ideas and wanted to listen to them. My mother actually was kind of a fan of my ideas and would listen to them. Marvin Minsky I actually communicated with in high school and came to visit him, came up to Boston, and to my delight, took me, a high school student, as seriously as he would take a professor. I mean, that is his approach. He treats everybody the same. I think he really doesn’t care if somebody’s a professor or a high school student. He’s very excited with ideas and very honest with his reactions. But that encouragement was important to me.
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Ray Kurzweil
Inventor and futurist; developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system
United States · b. 1948
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Built the first omni-font optical character recognition system and, from it, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, then the first electronic synthesiser to reproduce the sound of a grand piano. Author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near.
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