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Vernor Vinge

1944 - 2024

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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 835,423 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Vernor Vinge is the 54th most popular computer scientist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 3,406th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,587th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 840k

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  • 53.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Vernor Vinge ranks 54 out of 245. Before him are Brian Kernighan, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Brooks, Leslie Lamport, Geoffrey Hinton, and Edwin Catmull. After him are Don Norman, Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, James H. Wilkinson, and Alfred Aho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Vernor Vinge ranks 264. Before him are Pierre Arditi, Susana Giménez, John Atta Mills, Michael Buffer, Wolfgang Weber, and Lena Nyman. After him are Earnie Shavers, Alexander Vencel, Tsuyoshi Kunieda, Teri Garr, Jill Clayburgh, and Lucía Topolansky. Among people deceased in 2024, Vernor Vinge ranks 163. Before him are Bill Cobbs, Bernard Chiarelli, Christoph Daum, Jean Malaurie, Silvio Santos, and Colin Renfrew. After him are Günter Brus, Humberto Maschio, Teri Garr, Brian Mulroney, William Anders, and Benny Golson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vernor Vinge ranks 3,406 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeff Hanneman (1964), Robert D. Putnam (1941), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Horace McCoy (1897), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), and Melissa Sue Anderson (1962). After him are Earnie Shavers (1944), Machine Gun Kelly (1990), Fred Quimby (1886), Hyman Minsky (1919), Bobby Brown (1969), and Frederic Forrest (1936).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Vernor Vinge ranks 33. Before him are J. C. R. Licklider (1915), John Cocke (1925), Nolan Bushnell (1943), Fred Brooks (1931), Leslie Lamport (1941), and Edwin Catmull (1945). After him are Don Norman (1935), Warren Weaver (1894), Larry Wall (1954), Ron Rivest (1947), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), and Edward Feigenbaum (1936).

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