Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vinge 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". 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).
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Waukesha
- Educated at
- Michigan State UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoSan Diego State University
- Awards
- 🏆 Prometheus Award🏆 Hugo Award for Best Novel🏆 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel🏆 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Stefan E. Warschawski
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Trending topics shown first"Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart."
"The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century."
"The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before."
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Timeline
1944
Born
Birth2024
Died
Death
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