One of these monuments, Cheops' pyramid,
was built in 2550 B.C. Kurzweil will discuss his ideas on the future
interplay between mankind and artificial intelligence with WPI 's graduates and
community in his speech, "When Humans Transcend Biology.
Kurzweil has laid out his vision in this area through his writing. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards , including the
$500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the nation's largest award in invention and
innovation , and the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest
honor in technology, from President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony.

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The Romans used concrete to build
almost everything and made use of a drum crane for building projects, which
allowed them to use a measly four pounds of lifting pressure to lift an
astonishing 4,000 pounds.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Announces Ray Kurzweil as Commencement Speaker

Patent
Office.

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WHAT THE ANCIENTS KNEW winds up in China on March 28, exploring how China
was a leader in science and technology for much of its history.

From 600 to
1500 A.

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The Egyptians
were also the first culture to believe in life after death , and they built
burial monuments that stand today. and was the tallest structure on earth until the Eiffel
Tower was built in 1889. Since
their entire civilization was based on their relationship with the Nile, the
Egyptians had tremendous incentive to develop the world's first examples of
hydraulic engineering and systematic irrigation., long before paper money was first printed in Europe in 1661 .S.

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D.
Kurzweil launched his thriving career in high school when he appeared on
the television show "I've Got a Secret," hosted by Steve Allen. With 2,770 undergraduates and 1,040 full- and part -
time graduate students, WPI offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in more
than 30 disciplines in engineering, science and the management of technology.

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D., 700 years before Johannes Gutenberg's famous Bible was
printed in the West." After Kurzweil's
talk, the university will confer upon him an honorary degree. His next book,
The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology, is due to be published
in September 2005.

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The series is produced for The Science Channel by Washington , D.C.
Kurzweil subsequently rose to even greater success with the invention of
several devices , including the first omni-font optical character recognition
(OCR), the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD
flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music
synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral
instruments , and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech
recognition.

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In addition, the Chinese invented the printing press
around 800 A. For The Science Channel, Charlie Parsons is executive producer., is Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Berkey, president of WPI.

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Roman
scientists and engineers were the first to be deployed to conquered provinces,
and it was their ingenuity that linked the vast Roman Empire together with
sophisticated bridges and roads, solidifying Roman rule over a swath of
territory that in its heyday extended from Scotland to Syria. He has founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music
synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial
investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence.
As a result of his accomplishments, Kurzweil was named in 2002 to the
National Inventors Hall of Fame, which was established by the U.

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D.-based
Edgework Media. He has
authored five books and hundreds of articles.

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In
addition, the Chinese were the first to identify and understand the human
circulatory system -- around the 2nd Century B., Ray Kurzweil, world-renowned
inventor, entrepreneur , author, and futurist, will be the commencement speaker
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (http: //www." Kurzweil's most recent work, coauthored with Terry Grossman,
M.

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Working in more than 30 research institutes, centers and laboratories, the
university's faculty and students are engaged in cutting-edge research in a
broad range of fields.

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The World's Most Influential Civilizations are Explored in The Science Channel's Three-Part Series WHAT THE ANCIENTS KNEW Beginning Monday March 14

It is the last of the seven wonders of the ancient
world still existing. The Chinese were also using printed money around 812
A.

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The series kicks off Monday, March 14, from 8-9 PM, with the
one-hour The Romans; The Egyptians premieres the following Monday, March 21,
from 8-9 PM; and the series concludes Monday, March 28, with The Chinese from
8-9 PM (all times ET/PT). Masters of
incorporating innovations from the cultures they dominated, the Romans spread
the concepts of clean water distribution and sewer systems -- as well as the
ubiquitous Roman bath -- to far-flung outposts of the empire. His secret
was that he programmed his computer to analyze abstract patterns in musical
compositions and then composed original melodies in a similar style.

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, Exploring the Roman Empire,
early Egypt and the Chinese dynasties, WHAT THE ANCIENTS KNEW is a panoramic
journey into the technological past that shaped our world. The Romans used
the aqueduct to distribute water , the catapult to defend their cities, and
the hypocaust (the first radiant heat apparatus) to heat the Roman baths. Heike G. Wells is
the director. The
unit also distributes BBC AMERICA.
Widely regarded as one of the preeminent inventors and innovators of our
time, Kurzweil foresees an era when the human body will be enhanced by
software and computers, enabling humans to download intelligence and to live
long past the current life expectancy.

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On March 21, viewers visit ancient Egypt, where astronomers developed the
world's first solar calendar and marked the first 24-hour day.

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The Science Channel is part of Discovery Networks, U.

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Host Jack Turner
travels back in time to understand the motivations behind early solutions and
inventions , demonstrating how ancient machines worked and explaining why they
were developed.D., which also operates and manages the Discovery
Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, the Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel,
Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Kids Channel, Discovery Times Channel,
Military Channel , Discovery Home Channel, Discovery en Espanol and FitTV.

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On Monday, March 14, viewers travel the globe to see sites of some of the
world's earliest inventions, beginning with those of ancient Rome.
They were also the first nation to focus manpower away from farming and cater
to other aspects of life -- like luxury items.

wpi.

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They built the first
reservoirs in human history and were the first to plant ornamental gardens. His best-
selling book, The Age of Spiritual Machines , When Computers Exceed Human
Intelligence, has been published in nine languages and achieved the #1 best
selling book on Amazon. With
this project, Kurzweil won first prize in the International Science Fair, and
he was named one of the 40 Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners who were
able to meet President Lyndon Johnson in a White House ceremony.

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com in the categories of "science " and "artificial
intelligence.
"As our graduates begin the next chapter of their lives, Ray Kurzweil is
an excellent role model -- providing a firsthand example of an innovative
career that has used science, technology and engineering to benefit the
world," says Dennis D.

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Chinese inventors can lay claim to the invention of gunpowder, fireworks, the
world's first rocket (and rocket launcher ), the seismoscope, the compass, the
kite, porcelain, the crossbow, and perhaps most important for modern
civilization, steel. Wells is the producer/writer and Richard J.

About Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Founded in 1865 as one of the nation's first technological universities ,
WPI is renowned for its innovative project-based undergraduate curriculum and
global projects program.

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SILVER SPRING, Md.
They also invented double-pane glass, public bathrooms and one of the first
prototypes of industrialization -- a water-powered flour factory that could
feed a minimum of 12,000 people each day.C., China was the most technologically advanced society on earth., a unit of
Discovery Communications, Inc. WORCESTER, Mass.edu) 137th graduation
ceremony on Saturday , May 21. His first book, The Age of
Intelligent Machines, was named Best Computer Science Book of 1990.

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Egyptian agricultural and horticultural technology is
the source for much of agricultural technology in the western world.

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