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Ray Kurzweil Net Worth
Ray Kurzweil's Net Worth as of 2024
$27 Million
Raymond Kurzweil was born on the 12th February 1948, in Queens, New York City USA, and is a computer scientist, inventor, futurist and author, best known to the world for improving technology in areas such as text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition, optical character recognition (OCR), and other related fields.
Have you ever wondered how rich Ray Kurzweil is, as of late 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Ray`s net worth is as high as $27 million, an amount earned through his successful scientific career, including authoring a number of books – “The Age of Intelligent Machines” (1990), “Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever” (2004), among others, the sales of which have also added to his net worth.
Ray Kurzweil Net Worth $27 Million
Ray is the son of Jewish parents, but secular, and who escaped from Austria to USA just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Since an early age, Ray was making up new things from parts of his various toys and old electronic gadgets. Little by little his skills improved, and when he was seven or eight years old he constructed a robotic puppet theater. In his teens Ray became interested in computers, and soon started building computing devices and statistical programs. While in high school Ray wrote his first computer program, which was able to analyze sound of classical composers and then make a song of its own based on the sounds it received; he won first prize at the International Science Fair for his invention. After high school, Ray enrolled at MIT, from which he graduated with a BSc degree in computer science and literature. During his college days, Ray continued to progress, and in his second year created the program Select College Consulting Program, which was used to compare thousands of different categories about colleges and students, and his answers on a college application adapted as a questionnaire. Thanks to the success of the program he soon sold it to Harcourt, Brace & World for $100,000, which only increased his net worth. Since then, his career has gone only upwards, and so has his net worth.
Ray has started several companies throughout his successful career, including Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc, which was responsible for developing one of the first omni-font optical character recognition systems, then Kurzweil Music Systems, which made some of the most popular synthesizers including Kurzweil K250, and was later sold as a whole company to Young Chang, a South Korean manufacturer of musical instruments. His next venture was Kurzweil Applied Intelligence or KAI, which the developed speech recognition program, Kurzweil Educational Systems, which saw the light of day in 1996, and was founded with the goal of developing a new pattern recognition program for children with disabilities such as dyslexia, blindness and other disabilities. He also started several other companies, such as Medical Learning Company, and a website KurzweilCyberArt.com, among many others, which successes only increased his net worth.
Most recently, Ray was hired by Google co-founder Larry Page, “to bring natural language understanding to Google”.
Thanks to his outstanding career, Ray has received numerous prestigious awards, including Dickson Prize in Science in 1994, National Medal of Technology in 1999, Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in 2000, and the Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award among many others.
Regarding his personal life, Ray has been married to Sonya Rosenwald Fenster since 1975 and the couple has two children. Ray is a part of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which is a cryonics company, and on his death he is to be perfused with cryoprotectants, vitrified in liquid nitrogen, in the hope that future technology will allow him to be revived and his tissue repaired.
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Chuck Todd Net Worth
Charles David Todd was born on the 8th April 1972, in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a journalist and television presenter, currently the Political Director of the News Department of the largest broadcaster in USA – NBC and the correspondent of the company in the White House. Todd is also a political analyst for the news and talk morning television show “Today”, and daily evening television news program “NBC Nightly News”. Chuck Todd has been active in politics and journalism since the early 1990s.
How much is the net worth of Chuck Todd? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $3 million, as of the data given in mid-2017.
Chuck Todd Net Worth $3 Million
After schooling Todd studied Political Science at George Washington University, but which he left without a degree. In the early 1990s he worked for various political campaigns, including the presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin in 1992. From 1992 to 2007 Todd worked as the editor of The Hotline, a daily political newsletter, which is published by the Atlantic Media Company and is primarily intended for a small, non-public audience of staff of congressmen, journalists and other people in the political and media business directly engaged. As a result, he frequently appeared as an expert on political television programs including “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “Inside Politics” with Judy Woodruff. His net worth grew steadily.
At the beginning of 2007, Todd was brought to NBC, where he soon took over the position of Political Director of the Intelligence Department (NBC News). In this capacity he is responsible for the supervision and coordination of political reporting from NBC and its cable offshoot, the 24-hour news station MSNBC. As a correspondent of the White House since late 2008, and as a general analyst of political events, Todd regularly appears in the NBC News and in several consignments of MSNBC. In the morning program of MSNBC, Todd also works with Savannah Guthrie on the weekdays 9:00 to 10:00 in Eastern Time broadcast program “The Daily Rundown”, which is a mixture of domestic and foreign policy news of the day, as well as interviews and debates with guests. In addition, Todd frequently appears as the guest in shows such as “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “The Rachel Maddow Show”. After the sudden death of Tim Russert, Todd was his successor as host of the program “Meet the Press” which is considered the oldest political discussion program on USA television. Overall, all the above mentioned engagements have significantly increased the total size of Chuck Todd’s net worth as well as popularity.
Moreover, Chuch Todd is the author of several books. He published the book “The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House” (2014), and he has also co-written “How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election”(2009) alongside Sheldon Gawiser.
Finally, in the personal life of Chuck Todd, he is married to Kristian Denny Todd; they have two children and currently the family resides in Arlington, Virginia.
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Denise Austin Net Worth
Denise Austin is a fitness instructor, author and columnist born on 13th February 1957 in San Pedro, California USA. She is one of the former members of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and had her television show named „Getting Fit with Denise Austin“ on ESPN2.
Have you ever wondered how rich Denise Austin is? According to sources it has been estimated that Denise Austin’s net worth is $2.5 million, as of late 2017, accumulated by building a lucrative career as a fitness instructor, and becoming one of the top instructors in the US. Having become a television personality as well, her popularity and net worth additionally increased.
Denise Austin Net Worth $2.5 Million
Austin was an athlete from her early years, and started training gymnastics when she was 12 years old. She earned an athletic scholarship at the University of Arizona, andwas ranked no.9 in the NCAA on the balance team, then transferred to California State University, from where she graduated with degree in physical education and physiology, with a minor in exercise physiology.
Upon graduation she started teaching, creating excersise video tapes, producing fitness shows and writing fitness-related columns and books. Some of these projects include “Shrink Your Female Fat Zones“, „Eat Carbs, Lose Weight“ and „Pilates for Every Body“. What makes Denise stand out among other fitness instructors is her unique approach to body-defining and a healthy life. She has emphasized that she herself exercises only around 30 minutes a day, and doesn’t skip meals. Her moto is „progress not perfect“, and she finds it more important to stay moderate when it comes to eating, and controlling your portions instead of giving up food.
One of Austin’s goals is also motivating people to stay fit at all ages, and propose realistic, everyday life solutions to weight control. She integrates several different types of workouts in her programs, including cross training, aerobics, pilates and yoga. Thanks to her recognized approach and visible results, Denise had a long-running TV program – „Getting Fit with Denise Austin“ – which ran on ESPN2, and which now re-runs on ESPN Classic and Altitude Sports and Entertainment. The show was eventually renamed to „Fit and Lite“ and „Denise Austin’s Daily Workout“, and moved to Lifetime Television until April 2008. After this, she continued releasing DVD compilations of her workout programs, and started running her YouTube channel, which she continues to do today. Altogether, she has created more than 100 fitness videos and DVDs which gained such popularity that she was inducted into the Video Hall of Fame in 2003. As she used to be a member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, her career reputation and popularity grew even more.
Privately, Denise has bee married to former tennis player and sports agent Jeff Austin, since April 1983. Her younger daughter is also a fitness instructor and gained notable popularity through her YouTube channel. The couple has two daughters and reside in Alexandria, Virginia.
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