Vernor Vinge, Innovative Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 79

Vernor Vinge, Innovative Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 79

The New York Times-Science·2024-03-29 06:01

Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and prolific science fiction author who in the 1980s wrote a novella that offered an early glimpse of what became known as cyberspace, and who soon after that hypothesized that artificial intelligence would outstrip human intelligence, died on March 20 in the La Jolla area of San Diego. He was 79.

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