Kurzweil was inducted as an Eminent Member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu. Kurzweil has received 20 honorary doctorates in science, engineering, music and humane letters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hofstra University and other leading colleges and universities, as well as honors from three U.S. presidents – Clinton, Reagan and Johnson. Kurzweil has received seven national and international film awards including the CINE Golden Eagle Award and the gold medal for Science Education from the International Film and TV Festival of New York. He gave a 2007 keynote speech to the Protestant United Church of Christ in Hartford, Connecticut, alongside Barack Obama, who was then a Presidential candidate. Bibliography Non-fiction The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990) The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life (1993) The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (2004 – co-authored by Terry Grossman) The Singularity Is Near (2005) Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever (2009) How to Create a Mind (2012) Fiction Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine (2019) See also Technological singularity Paradigm shift Simulated reality References External links Official Danielle Superheroine website 1948 births 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers American agnostics American futurologists American inventors American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American science writers American technology writers American transhumanists Artificial intelligence researchers Cryonicists Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Google employees Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates Jewish agnostics Lemelson–MIT Prize Life extensionists Living people Machine learning researchers Martin Van Buren High School alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni American nanotechnologists National Medal of Technology recipients Singularitarians Writers from Queens, New York MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni