Zachary Mason (born 1974) is an American computer scientist and novelist. He wrote the New York Times bestselling 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.
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. He works for a Silicon Valley startup.
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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