Vernor Vinge

True Names

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Produktbeschreibung

Vernor Vinge is a computer scientist, mathematics professor and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning Zones of Thought series, including novels A Fire Upon the Deep and The Children of the Sky. He published True Names in 1981 and it was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2007. Vinge retired from teaching at San Diego State University in 2000 and currently sits on the selection committee for the Free Software Foundation's Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Worlds
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9780241975589
• ISBN-10: 0241975581
• Artikelnr.: 44700010

Autorenporträt

Vernor Vinge

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by James Frenkel
Introduction by Vernor Vinge
"A Time of Transition/The Human Connection," by Danny Hills
"True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy," by Timothy C. May
"Eventful History: Version 1.x," by John M. Ford
"How Is the NII Like a Prison?," by Alan Wexelblat
"Intelligent Software," by Pattie Maes
"The Right to Read," by Richard M. Stallman
"Cryptography and the Politics of One's True Name," by Leonard N. Foner
"Habitat: Reports from an Online Community," by Chip Morningstar and F.
Randall Farmer
"True Magic," by Mark Pesce
'True Names," by Vernor Vinge
Afterword by Marvin Minsky