Zachary Mason (born 1974) is an American 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]
Zachary Mason | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
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
edit- ^ Rohter, Larry (February 9, 2010). "A Calculus of Writing, Applied to a Classic". The New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "The Lost Books of the Odyssey | Zachary Mason | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ Haynes, Natalie (18 October 2018). "Metamorphica by Zachary Mason review – mish-mash of Graeco-Roman myth". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- ^ Mason, Zachary (2002). A computational, corpus-based metaphor extraction system. Brandeis University.
External links
edit- "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
  | This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |