Neal Stephenson

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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music

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5 total works indexed

1. Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

   · 2011 · cited 14,330x

2. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,130x

3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,810x

4. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 9,756x

5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,223x

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Quotes

• “For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.”
• “I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.”
• “The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.”
• “Any strategy that involves crossing a valley—accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance—will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.”
• “Now, at the little southern black college where I went to school, we had no megadorms. We were cool at the right times and academic at the right times .... Boston University, where I did my Master's ... most students had no time for sonic war, and the rest vented their humors in the city, not in the dorms. Ohio State was nicely spread out, and I lived in an apartment complex where noisy shit-for-brains undergrads were even less welcome than tweedy black bachelors.”
• “This is a history, in that it intends to describe what happened and suggest why. ... I may have fooled around with a few facts. But I served as witness until as close to the end as anyone could have ... and so there is not so much art in this as to make it irrelevant.”

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Key facts

Born

Neal Town Stephenson , ( 1959-10-31 ) October 31, 1959 (age 66) , Fort Meade , Maryland , U.S.

Pen name

Stephen Bury, (with J. Frederick George )

Occupation

Novelist short story writer essayist

Education

Boston University ( BA )

Period

1984–present

Genre

Science fiction , speculative fiction , historical fiction , essays

Notable awards

Hugo , Prometheus , Locus , Clarke

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Official website

www.nealstephenson.com

Image

Neal Stephenson 2008.jpg

Number of children

2

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