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WEB LINKS
The following is a catalog organized by subject of World Wide Web sites relevant to topics in the book. Remember that compared to books listed in a bibliography, web sites are not nearly as long lasting. These sites were all verified when the book went to press, but inevitably some will become inactive. The Web, unfortunately, is littered with nonfunctioning sites.
SITES RELEVANT TO THE BOOK
Web site for the book The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil:
To e-mail the author: [email protected]
To download a copy of Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet:
This book’s publisher, Viking:
For publications of Ray Kurzweil: Go to or and then select “Publications”
WEB SITES FOR COMPANIES FOUNDED BY RAY KURZWEIL
Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. (creator of print-to-speech reading systems for persons with reading disabilities and visual impairment):
Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. (creator of Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet and other software projects):
The dictation division of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (formerly Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc.), creator of speech recognition and natural language software systems:
The overall Lernout &: Hauspie web site:
Kurzweil Music Systems, Inc., creator of computer-based music synthesizers, sold to Young Chang in 1990:
TextBridge Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Formerly Kurzweil OCR from Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. (sold to Xerox Corp. in 1980):
ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH
The Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
Artificial Life Online:
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography:
Machine Learning Laboratory, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
The MIT Media Lab:
SSIE 580B: Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life, by Luis M. Rocha, Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Stewart Dean’s Guide to Artificial Life:
ASTRONOMY/PHYSICS
American Institute of Physics:
International Astronomical Union (IAU):
Introduction to the Big Bang Theory:
BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
American Scientist Article: Reward Deficiency Syndrome:
Animal Diversity Web Site, the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan:
Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species:
Evolution and Behavior:
The Human Genome Project:
Information Processing in the Human Body:
Thomas Ray/Tierra:
The Visible Human Project:
BRAIN IMAGING RESEARCH
Brain Research Web Page, Jeffrey H. Lake Research:
Applications of brain research: