Raymond Kurzweil grew up in Queens, N.Y, the son of an artist and a musician who fled Hitler in 1938. By age 12 he had written a mainframe computer program for statistics, which led him toward a lifelong interest in pattern recognition. As a winner of the Westing-house Science Talent Search, with the invention of a computer and music-composition program, he made an early appearance at the White House to meet with President Lyndon B. Johnson. From this early start as a wunderkind, Kurzweil has become a self described inventor, specializing in the areas of pattern recognition he originated with his analysis of classical music for the Westinghouse project.
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