Daniel H. Wilson
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Daniel H. Wilson (born March 6, 1978) is a New York Times best-selling author, television host and robotics engineer.
He currently resides in Portland, Oregon.
His books include the award-winning humor titles How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where's My Jetpack? and How to Build a Robot Army and the bestseller Robopocalypse.
His most recent novel, The Clockwork Dynasty, was published in August 2017.
Early life
Daniel H. Wilson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the elder of two children. He is Cherokee and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Education
Wilson attended Booker T. Washington High School, graduating in 1996. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Tulsa in 2000, spending one semester studying philosophy abroad in Melbourne, Australia at the University of Melbourne. He completed an M.S. in Robotics, another M.S. in Machine Learning, and his PhD in Robotics in 2005 at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His thesis work, entitled Assistive Intelligent Environments for Automatic Health Monitoring, focused on providing automatic location and activity monitoring in the home via low-cost sensors such as motion detectors and contact switches. He has worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, the Xerox PARC, Northrop Grumman, and Intel Research Seattle.
Awards
- How to Survive a Robot Uprising won a Rave Award from Wired and was chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as a "2007 Popular Paperback for Young Adults".
- Where's My Jetpack? was a GQ Media Pick for 2007.
- How to Build a Robot Army was chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as a "2009 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers."
- Robopocalypse was a New York Times bestseller; a Los Angeles Times bestseller; a winner of the Alex Awards presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); a Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2011; a nominee for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel; and a nominee for the 2012 Endeavor Award.
- Robogenesis was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
- Wilson was the Guest of Honor at the Capricon 33 science fiction convention, held in Chicago.