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Vernor Vinge

1944 - Today

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Vernor Steffen Vinge ( ; 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vernor Vinge has received more than 777,354 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Vernor Vinge is the 53rd most popular computer scientist (up from 55th in 2019), the 3,597th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,652nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 31

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  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Vernor Vinge ranks 53 out of 201. Before him are Pierre Bézier, Charles Bachman, Joseph Weizenbaum, Jay Wright Forrester, Alan Perlis, and Edwin Catmull. After him are Gil Amelio, James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Juris Hartmanis, Jacques Vallée, and Alfred Aho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Vernor Vinge ranks 241. Before him are Donald Tsang, Petar Zhekov, Boris Mikhailov, Claude Nicollier, Mauro Piacenza, and Tom Okker. After him are Frank Sinatra Jr., Abdul Fatah Younis, Haim Saban, Jim Abrahams, Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, and Rory Byrne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vernor Vinge ranks 3,597 out of 18,182. Before him are Barry Bostwick (1945), Doris Miller (1919), Franz Kline (1910), Timothy Hutton (1960), Maso di Banco (1250), and Philip Kaufman (1936). After him are Mariska Hargitay (1964), Big Mama Thornton (1926), Jeff Lindsay (1952), Frank Sinatra Jr. (1944), Paul Gallico (1897), and Spotted Elk (1826).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Vernor Vinge ranks 35. Before him are Fred Brooks (1931), Warren Weaver (1894), Charles Bachman (1924), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Alan Perlis (1922), and Edwin Catmull (1945). After him are Gil Amelio (1943), Larry Wall (1954), Larry Tesler (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), and Mary Kenneth Keller (1913).

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