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MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld and technology futurist Ray Kurzweil have long worked at the leading edges of physical science and computer science. Today, in their own ways, both believe that we are on the event horizon of a technological singularity. But they arrived at this conclusion from two very different directions, discovered one child prodigy who has both of these luminaries as mentors.
Well before Gershenfeld and Kurzweil's different visions of the future merged, their thoughts came together to influence the mind of David Dalrymple, now age 16 and an MIT graduate student. Dalrymple began corresponding with Gershenfeld in 1999 at the tender age of 8. Later that year, Gershenfeld invited him to a White House event to demonstrate a device he had built using Lego Mindstorms. There Dalrymple met Kurzweil, who had built some of the earliest music synthesizers and the first text-to-speech synthesizer. At age 9, Dalrymple joined Kurzweil as a presenter at TED, the conference on Technology, Entertainment, Design. Dalrymple worked with Kurzweil for three summers while an undergraduate at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; he graduated at age 13. Dalrymple is now working toward his Ph.D. under Gershenfeld.
Well before Gershenfeld and Kurzweil's different visions of the future merged, their thoughts came together to influence the mind of David Dalrymple, now age 16 and an MIT graduate student. Dalrymple began corresponding with Gershenfeld in 1999 at the tender age of 8. Later that year, Gershenfeld invited him to a White House event to demonstrate a device he had built using Lego Mindstorms. There Dalrymple met Kurzweil, who had built some of the earliest music synthesizers and the first text-to-speech synthesizer. At age 9, Dalrymple joined Kurzweil as a presenter at TED, the conference on Technology, Entertainment, Design. Dalrymple worked with Kurzweil for three summers while an undergraduate at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; he graduated at age 13. Dalrymple is now working toward his Ph.D. under Gershenfeld.
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