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Vernor Vinge

1944 - 2024

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Vernor Steffen Vinge ( ; 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". 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vernor Vinge is the 63rd most popular computer scientist (down from 54th in 2019), the 3,883rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,406th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Vernor Vinge ranks 63 out of 245. Before him are Pierre Bézier, James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Yann LeCun, Brian Kernighan, and J. C. R. Licklider. After him are Ron Rivest, Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Robert C. Martin, Leonard Adleman, and Larry Wall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Vernor Vinge ranks 288. Before him are Terry Brooks, John Milius, Angela Winkler, Katsuyoshi Kuwahara, Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, and Taylor Hackford. After him are Abdul Qadir, Eddie Gómez, Peter Bieri, Robert Hanssen, Christine Chubbuck, and Sandra Faber. Among people deceased in 2024, Vernor Vinge ranks 195. Before him are Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Mísia, Tūheitia Paki, Ecaterina Oancia, M. Emmet Walsh, and Sergio Sebastiani. After him are Annelie Ehrhardt, Dabney Coleman, Aribert Reimann, Josip Manolić, Rebecca Horn, and Mahieddine Khalef.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vernor Vinge ranks 3,883 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Steele (1962), Jim Beaver (1950), Anna Gunn (1968), Chaka Khan (1953), Louise Bryant (1885), and Juice Wrld (1998). After him are Michael Chang (1972), Wilson Pickett (1941), Keb' Mo' (1951), Ron Rivest (1947), Tony Goldwyn (1960), and Philip Kaufman (1936).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Vernor Vinge ranks 36. Before him are Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), Allen Newell (1927), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Leslie Lamport (1941), Alan Perlis (1922), and J. C. R. Licklider (1915). After him are Ron Rivest (1947), Jean Bartik (1924), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Leonard Adleman (1945), Larry Wall (1954), and Jef Raskin (1943).

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