Three years later, while a student at MIT, Kurzweil started and sold his first company, Select Computer Systems, which was the first computer-based system that matched high school students and colleges. The Kurzweil Music System was the first electronic music synthesiser to reproduce realistically the complex sound of any musical instrument and revolutionised the music industry. For Lifetime Achievement winner, Raymond Damadian, it was the death of his grandmother from cancer that inspired him to go on and create the Magnetic Resonance Scanning Machine in 1971. Six years later, his MRI technology successfully completed the first scan of the human body. Since then, the system has enabled doctors to save the lives of millions of people through early detection of cancer and other illnesses.
Innovation is the thrill of discovery.
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