Vernor Vinge
Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Hugo Award-winning Novelist, A Fire Upon The Deep, Rainbow's End
VERNOR VINGE is a mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction author who is a retired San Diego State University (SDSU) Professor of Mathematics, He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006), Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004), 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 intelligencewill mark the point at which "the human era will be ended," such that no current models of reality are sufficient to predict beyond it.
