Re: PLAQUE: Vernor Vinge

Baal wrote:
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/vernor-vinge-father-of-the-tech-singularity-has-died-at-age-79/
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> Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
> Vinge won multiple Hugo awards and created a sci-fi concept that drives AI researchers.
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> On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, 2024, in La Jolla, California. The announcement came in a Facebook tribute where Brin wrote about Vinge's deep love for science and writing.
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> "A titan in the literary genre that explores a limitless range of potential destinies, Vernor enthralled millions with tales of plausible tomorrows, made all the more vivid by his polymath masteries of language, drama, characters, and the implications of science," wrote Brin in his post.
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> As a sci-fi author, Vinge won Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1993), A Deepness in the Sky (2000), and Rainbows End (2007). He also won Hugos for novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004). As Mike Glyer's File 770 blog notes, Vinge's novella True Names (1981) is frequency cited as the first presentation of an in-depth look at the concept of "cyberspace."
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> We've reached out to Kurzweil and others for their thoughts on Vinge's passing and will update this article when we hear back.

  sad to hear.  one of my favorite authors.  aptly this notice
arrives via usenet which is sort of incorporated into his novel
_A Fire Upon the Deep_, a book i've reread and enjoyed.

  *CRASH!*

  songbird