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Vernor Steffen Vinge ( / ˈvɜːrnərˈvɪndʒiː / ⓘ; 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.
Mar 21, 2024 · Vinge coined the term "singularity" to describe the technological transition to superintelligence and won multiple Hugo awards for his novels and stories. He influenced futurists and AI researchers with his optimistic and plausible visions of the future.
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet.
Mar 20, 2024 · Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon The Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999) and Rainbows End (2006), his Hugo Award-winning novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Vinge was a prolific and influential science-fiction writer who coined the term "Technological Singularity" and envisioned cyberspace. He also taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University and predicted the rise of artificial intelligence.
Mar 28, 2024 · Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and prolific science fiction author who in the 1980s wrote a novella that offered an early glimpse of what became known as cyberspace, and who...
Jan 1, 2001 · Vernor Vinge. 4.14. 62,266 ratings3,223 reviews. Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
