True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

This remarkable anthology reprints Hugo winner Vinge's "True Names" (1981), the story that began SF's cyberpunk revolution, with 11 essays showing its effect on science as well as fiction. Here is a feast of articles by computer scientists and journalists on the cutting edge of the field, writing about innovations and developments of the Internet.____Including, among others:__* Danny Hillis: Founder of thinking machines and the first Disney Fellow.* Timothy C. May: former chief scientist at Intel--a major insider in the field of computers and technology.* Marvin Minsky: Cofounder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.* Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer: Codevelopers of habitat, the first real computer interactive environment.* Mark Pesce: Cocreator of VRML and the author of the Playful World: How Technology Transforms Our Imagination.* Richard M. Stallman: Research affiliate with MIT; the founder of the Free Software Movement.