The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

William Gibson
Gibson, William

    Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer
   (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual
   Light (1993).

   Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal
   "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial
   intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and
   Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal
   cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace".

   Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly
   purchased his first computer in 1992.

   (1996-06-11)