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Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vinge 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 Rainb…
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science · American computer scientist and writer (1944–2024) · mathematician · computer scientist · novelist · writer · science fiction writer · university teacher · also Vernor Vinge, Vernor Steffen Vinge, Vinge
Born 2 October 1944 · Died 20 March 2024 · Q312405
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 6 entries
San Diego Union-Tribune: Vernor Vinge, visionary sci-fi author who helped foretell the rise of internet and AI, dies in La Jolla at 79
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Deadline.com: Vernor Vinge Dies: Hugo Award-Winner Credited With Insights Into ‘The Singularity’ And ‘Cyberspace’ Was 79
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Yahoo: Vernor Vinge, Author Who Popularized AI ‘Singularity’ and ‘Cyberspace,’ Dies at 79
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Yahoo: Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died
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Ars Technica: Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
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Died 2024-03-20.
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2022· 2 entries
Gizmodo: Vernor Vinge
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Published “Remdesivir and three other drugs for hospitalised patients with COVID-19: final results of the WHO Solidarity randomised trial and updated meta-analyses” in The Lancet — cited 353 times.
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Onset of effect and impact on health-related quality of life, exacerbation rate, lung function, and nasal polyposis symptoms for patients with severe eosinophilic asthma treated with benralizumab (ANDHI): a randomised, controlled, phase 3b trial” in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine — cited 163 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Safety and efficacy of eculizumab in anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive refractory generalised myasthenia gravis (REGAIN): a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre study” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 779 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Natural regeneration of forest vegetation on legacy seismic lines in boreal habitats in Alberta’s oil sands region” in Biological Conservation — cited 141 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “The NLRP3 inflammasome is up-regulated in cardiac fibroblasts and mediates myocardial ischaemia–reperfusion injury” in Cardiovascular Research — cited 476 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Inflammatory Cytokines in Heart Failure: Mediators and Markers” in Cardiology — cited 295 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Released The Children of the Sky, a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set approximately 10 years following the end of A Fire Upon the Deep
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2010· 1 entry
“A Preliminary Assessment of the Drake Equation, Being an Excerpt from the Memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee”
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Increased systemic and myocardial expression of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in clinical and experimental heart failure” in European Heart Journal — cited 248 times.
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2008· 2 entries
Published “G Protein–Coupled Receptor Kinase 2 Ablation in Cardiac Myocytes Before or After Myocardial Infarction Prevents Heart Failure” in Circulation Research — cited 197 times.
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Published “Uncovering G protein-coupled receptor kinase-5 as a histone deacetylase kinase in the nucleus of cardiomyocytes” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 202 times.
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Rainbows End (2007).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for Rainbows End (2007).
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2006· 2 entries
NextBigFuture: vernor Vinge has new book Rainbows End
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“2020 Computing: The creativity machine”
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Cookie Monster (2004).
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Awarded Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work for A Deepness in the Sky (2004).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Novella for The Cookie Monster (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novella for Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002).
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for A Deepness in the Sky (2000).
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Awarded Prometheus Award for A Deepness in the Sky (2000).
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Awarded John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for A Deepness in the Sky (2000).
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From teaching at San Diego State University, in order to write full-time
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Relationships among serum cystatin C, serum creatinine, lean tissue mass and glomerular filtration rate in healthy adults” in Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation — cited 205 times.
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Cosmos 2000 Award for A Fire Upon the Deep (1995).
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Awarded Premio Gigamesh for A Fire Upon the Deep (1995).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for A Fire Upon the Deep (1993).
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“The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era”
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Inkpot Award (1992).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Prometheus Award for Marooned in Realtime (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
Published “Outcome in 60 consecutive patients treated with early aneurysm operation and intravenous nimodipine” in Journal of Neurosurgery — cited 163 times.
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1981· 1 entry
With his novella True Names, perhaps the first story to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk stories by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and others
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1969· 1 entry
Expanded the story "Grimm's Story" (Orbit 4, 1968) into his first novel, Grimm's World
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1966· 1 entry
Became a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-10-02.
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