Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"

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Seventeen-year-old Ray Kurzweil appears on the TV show I've Got a Secret in 1965, playing a piece of music composed by a computer program he built.

HN shares it as an impressive early example of computer-generated music and of Kurzweil's precocity.

“Pretty impressive for a 17 year old in 1965...”
17-year-old Kurzweil plays music composed by his own program in 1965.
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“mind blown that kurzweil made programmed music in this presentation in 1965.”
Kurzweil at 17 presenting computer-composed music he built hardware for.
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Topics: ray kurzweil, 1965, algorithmic composition, television, computing history