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Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic. He is probably best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (abbreviated as GEB) which was published in 1979, and won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. This book inspired thousands of students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence.
Biography
The son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter, he graduated in Mathematics at Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975. As of 2005, he is a College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology at Indiana University Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.
Hofstadter is multilingual; he spent a few years in Sweden in the mid-1960s where he learned Swedish. In addition to English, his mother tongue, he speaks Italian, French, and German; his knowledge of these languages can be partly attributed to having spent a year of his youth in Geneva. He also speaks some Russian: he translated parts of GEB into Russian, and published a verse translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. In Le Ton beau de Marot (written in memory of his late wife Carol) he describes himself as a "pilingual" (conversant in 3.14159... languages) and an "oligoglot" (speaker of few languages).
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schoschie (Niels Heidenreich) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:47:05 -0000
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#quote #citar Aunque esta frase comienza con la palabra, porque es falso. - Douglas R Hofstadter
spanishfortune (Spanish Fortune) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:55:02 -0000
#quote #citar Aunque esta frase comienza con la palabra, porque es falso. - Douglas R Hofstadter
@mmeida @Irreductible Sobre eso y un poco más allá es muy recomendable el Gödel, Escher Bach, de Douglas R. Hofstadter
jgarciamiguel (Jorge Garcia) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:04:51 -0000
@mmeida @Irreductible Sobre eso y un poco más allá es muy recomendable el Gödel, Escher Bach, de Douglas R. Hofstadter
IU Computer Science: Douglas R Hofstadter - Home page, which includes contact details, black and white photograph, and departmental report narrative.
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Non-Fiction Reviews: Douglas R. Hofstadter - Reviews of books, including Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. and Le Ton beau de Marot.
NYTimes.com: Exploring the Labyrinth of the Mind - Detailed discussion of Hofstadter's life and works.
Perspective of Mind: Douglas Hofstadter - Essay discussing Hofstadter's views on intelligence and the mind.
Wired 3.11: By Analogy - Kevin Kelly's interview with Douglas Hofstadter.
Meta Description: [ A talk with the most remarkable researcher in artificial intelligence today, Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. ]
