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Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge | |
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.jpg) Vinge in 2006 | |
| Born | Vernor Steffen Vinge October 2, 1944[1] Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.[1] |
| Died | March 20, 2024 (aged 79) La Jolla, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Education | University of California, San Diego (PhD) |
| Period | 1966–2011 |
| Genre | Science fiction |
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| Notable awards | Hugo Awards: Best Novel: 1993, 2000, 2007; Best Novella: 2003, 2005 Prometheus Awards: 1987, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2014 Special Award for Lifetime Achievement |
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Vernor Steffen Vinge (/ˈvɜːrnər ˈvɪndʒiː/ ⓘ; October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "cyberspace".[3] He won the Hugo Award for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster (2004).
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
SFEwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Vinge, Vernor (March 1993). "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". San Diego State University. Archived from the original on May 8, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
- ^ Saffo, Paul (1991), "Consensual Realities in Cyberspace", in Denning, Peter J. (ed.), Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms, and Viruses, New York: ACM, pp. 416–20, doi:10.1145/102616.102644, ISBN 0-201-53067-8. Revised and expanded from "Viewpoint", Communications of the ACM 32 (6): 664–65, 1989, doi:10.1145/63526.315953.
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