Vernor Vinge
Novelist, Computer Scientist
1944 –
Who is Vernor Vinge?
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 and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbows End, Fast Times at Fairmont High, and The Cookie Monster, as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that the creation of superhuman artificial intelligence will mark the point at which "the human era will be ended", such that no current models of reality are sufficient to predict beyond it.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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- Born
- Oct 2, 1944
Waukesha - Also known as
- Vernor Steffen Vinge
- Spouses
- Joan D. Vinge
(1972 - 1979)
- Joan D. Vinge
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, San Diego
- Employment
- San Diego State University
- Lived in
- Waukesha
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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