Biography
Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, science fiction writer Vernor Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by science and particularly computers from an early age, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University for thirty years.
He has won Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and for the novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (2001). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his SF, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction.
He has also gained a great deal of attention both here and abroad for his theory of the coming machine intelligence Singularity. Sought widely as a speaker to both business and scientific groups, he lives in San Diego, California.
Works in the WWEnd Database
Images
No images currently exist for this author. Be the first to add one.
Submit an Image
Videos
Submit a Video Link from YouTube
Vernor Vinge in Blogs
- SF Signal: VIDEO: Vernor Vinge on Superhuman Intelligence
NEXT POST: MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) » VIDEO: Vernor Vinge on Superhuman Intelligence. Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge explains the concept of localizers. ... - Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download - Boing Boing
Vernor Vinge has put the entire text of his magnificent, prescient, mind-alteringly good novel Rainbows End online as a free download. This was one of the best books of 2006, a book that practically defines what "post-cyberpunk" really ... - My Boskone Schedule : Uncertain Principles
Vernor Vinge. I'm not quite sure what this means, but I'm inclined to give Vinge some slack. Sunday 11am Harbor 2: Bad Science on TV Give examples. Lots and lots of terrible examples, please!? Andrew Zimmerman Jones (m), Jordin T. Kare, ... - The Mad Professah Lectures: REVIEW: Vernor Vinge's A FIRE UPON THE ...
Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep is an instant classic science fiction novel. It won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction novel of 1992 and is considered one of the finest examples of its genre. ... - A Fire Upon the Deep (Unabridged) - Vernor Vinge
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..... - Vernor Vinge's Science Fiction: Witling
The Witling is a 1976 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, about a planet populated by a race of nearly-human aliens who have the ability to teleport with. - Augmented reality idea to make transparent walls Boing Boing
Vernor Vinge wants his royalty check. Anonymous | #21 | 12:00 on Mon, Feb. 1 | Reply. Report. @12, 13: I assumed that it would be a video feed transmitted to special AR-capable car windscreens or something, not actually projected onto ... - Superhuman Imagination - Reason Magazine
Vernor Vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and the state. - Penguicon 6: free software and science fiction con near Detroit ...
The guests of honor include Vernor Vinge and Jono Bacon from Canonical/Ubuntu. I attended one of these a couple years back and had a high old time: open source and science fiction go together like peanut butter and chocolate. ... - The Coming Technological Singularity at Seeker Blog
Vernor Vinge's 1993 paper is available on the university website The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Abstract. Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman ...
