American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer (1944–2024)
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Vernor Steffen Vinge (/ˈvɜːrnər ˈvɪndʒiː/ ; October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) 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 Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster (2004).
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).