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  1. Mar 21, 2024 · Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer, professor, and one of the first prominent thinkers to conceptualize the concepts of a “ Technological Singularity ” and cyberspace, has died at ...

  2. Mar 24, 2024 · Vernor Vinge, whose expansive science fiction brought the concepts of The Singularity and cyberspace to a wider audience, died from Parkinson’s disease at age 79 on March 20 in La Jolla,...

  3. Mar 20, 2024 · Genre. Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nonfiction. edit data. 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 ...

  4. Mar 21, 2024 · - The Verge. Posted Mar 21, 2024. At 9:27 AM PDT. Barbara Krasnoff. Vernor Vinge, science fiction writer and creator of the concept of the technological singularity, has died at the age of 79.

  5. Mar 29, 2024 · Vernor Vinge, the San Diego State University professor whose award-winning science fiction novels helped foretell the rise and impact of the Internet, virtual reality and artificial...

  6. Mar 21, 2024 · March 21, 2024 @ 2:33 PM. Vernor Vinge, science-fiction author and professor who popularized the idea of an artificial intelligence singularity and the term “cyberspace,” has died at 79. He’s...

  7. Mar 22, 2024 · Fri 22 Mar 2024 // 04:27 UTC. Obituary Science fiction author and academic Vernor Vinge has departed this life, aged 79. Vinge is credited as the first author to describe an immersive cyberspace, which he outlined in his 1979 novella True Names – five years before William Gibson's Neuromancer brought the idea to the mainstream.

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