Scientist Ray Kurzweil
Q&A About Alkaline Water
Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame,
established by the U.S. Patent Office. He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT
Prize, the nation's largest award in invention and innovation. He also received the
1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology,
from President Clinton in a White House ceremony.
He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie
Mellon University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the
Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received twelve honorary
Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents.
He has received seven national and international film awards. Ray's books include The Age of Intelligent Machines, The
Age of Spiritual Machines, and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Four of Ray's books have been
national best sellers and The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science.