"Inventor Ray Kurzweil hopes to develop ways for humans to live forever, and while he’s at it, bring back his dead father. Behind him is the support of a tech giant. This month, Kurzweil, a futurist, stepped into the role of Director of Engineering at Google, focusing on machine learning and language processing." - Huffpost
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/ray-kurzweil-google-direc_n_2377821.html