The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences presents Reinventing Intelligence, a lecture from 2025 Robert A. Muh Award winner Ray Kurzweil '70, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. The lecture, which is free to attend, begins at 5 p.m. at the Thomas Tull Concert Hall in the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, 201 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

The biennial Muh Alumni Award recognizes the tremendous achievements of MIT degree holders, celebrating leaders in one of the Institute’s humanities, arts, or social science fields. The prize was founded in 2000 by Robert Muh ’59 and his wife Berit, on the occasion of the school’s 50th anniversary. 

Kurzweil is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google. Kurzweil also served on the MIT Board of Trustees from 2005- 2012. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Literature from MIT in 1970. A leading developer in AI for more than six decades, Kurzweil was named one of the 100 most influential people in AI by Time Magazine taking the number one spot in the thinkers category, noting his “eerily prescient predictions about AI.” He was also selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” PBS selected him as one of the “sixteen revolutionaries who made America.”