Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam is a professional technologist and science fiction writer.

Early life

Born in Cairo, Egypt, his family moved to the United States when Naam was three years old. [1]

Career

Naam was involved in the development of software products such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. He was the CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, a company involved in developing nanotechnology research software, before returning to Microsoft.[2] His last role at Microsoft was as a Partner Group Program Manager in Search Relevance for Live Search. Naam currently holds a seat on the advisory board of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, is a member of the World Future Society, a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.[3][4]

He holds 19 patents in areas of email, web browsing, search, and artificial intelligence.[5]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Fiction

The Nexus Trilogy

  1. Nexus (December 2012)
  2. Crux (August 2013)
  3. Apex (May 2015)

Awards

2005 HG Wells Award for Contributions to Transhumanism, awarded by the World Transhumanist Association.[6]

2014 Nexus won the Prometheus Award, and he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[7]

2015 Apex won the Philip K. Dick Award.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ramez Naam at Goodreads
  2. ↑ Ramez Naam at CrunchBase
  3. ↑ Ramez Naam
  4. ↑ Ramez Naam - biography, plus book reviews & excerpts
  5. ↑ Ramez Naam - About
  6. ↑ Ramez Naam wins 2005 HG Wells Award for Contributions to Transhumanism
  7. ↑ "2014 Hugo Awards" at LonCon 3 site

External links

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