Biography:Zachary Mason
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Short description: American novelist
Zachary Mason | |
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| Born | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
Zachary Mason (born 1974) is a computer scientist and novelist.[1] He wrote the New York Times bestselling[2] The Lost Books of the Odyssey (2007; revised edition 2010), a variation on Homer, and Void Star (2017), a science fiction novel about artificial intelligence. In 2018, he published Metamorphica, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.[3]
Mason grew up in Silicon Valley, attended Bard College at Simon's Rock, and received a doctorate from Brandeis University, publishing his thesis A computational, corpus-based metaphor extraction system in 2002.[4] He works for a Silicon Valley startup.
References
- ↑ Rohter, Larry (February 9, 2010). "A Calculus of Writing, Applied to a Classic". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/books/10mason.html.
- ↑ "The Lost Books of the Odyssey | Zachary Mason | Macmillan" (in en-US). https://us.macmillan.com/thelostbooksoftheodyssey/zacharymason/9780312680466.
- ↑ Haynes, Natalie (18 October 2018). "Metamorphica by Zachary Mason review – mish-mash of Graeco-Roman myth" (in en). The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/metamorphica-by-zachary-mason-review-ovid.
- ↑ Mason, Zachary (2002). A computational, corpus-based metaphor extraction system. Brandeis University. https://books.google.com/books?id=DUGZNwAACAAJ.
External links
- "The Machine Edda," by Zachary Mason in Guernica - April 26, 2008
- A.I., the Simulated Annealing Search, and The Lost Books of the Odyssey: An Interview with Zachary Mason - Washington City Paper, Mar. 4, 2010
- The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story by Zachary Mason in The Paris Review - Dec. 20, 2018
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