Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter
Hofstadter in 2006
Born
Douglas Richard Hofstadter

(1945-02-15) February 15, 1945 (age 79)
New York City, US
EducationStanford University (BSc)
University of Oregon (PhD, 1975)
Known forGödel, Escher, Bach
I Am a Strange Loop[3]
Hofstadter's butterfly
Hofstadter's law
Spouse(s)Carol Ann Brush (1985–1993; her death)
Baofen Lin (2012–present)
Children2
AwardsNational Book Award
Pulitzer Prize
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement[1]
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive science
Philosophy of mind
Artificial Intelligence
Physics
InstitutionsIndiana University
Stanford University
University of Oregon
University of Michigan
ThesisThe Energy Levels of Bloch Electrons in a Magnetic Field (1975)
Doctoral advisorGregory Wannier[2]
Doctoral studentsDavid Chalmers
Robert M. French
Scott A. Jones
Melanie Mitchell
Websitecogs.sitehost.iu.edu/..

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world,[3][4] consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction[5][6] and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science.[7][note 1] His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.[8][9][10][11]

  1. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  2. ^ Hofstadter, Douglas Richard (1975). The Energy Levels of Bloch Electrons in a Magnetic Field (PhD thesis). University of Oregon. ProQuest 288009604.
  3. ^ a b Hofstadter, Douglas R. (2008) [2003]. I Am a Strange Loop. New York, NY: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-03079-8.
  4. ^ Hofstadter, D. R. (1982). "Who shoves whom around inside the careenium? Or what is the meaning of the word "I"?". Synthese. 53 (#2): 189–218. doi:10.1007/BF00484897. S2CID 46972278.
  5. ^ "General Nonfiction" Archived February 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
  6. ^ A bedside book of paradoxes Archived March 26, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New York Times
  7. ^ "National Book Awards – 1980" Archived August 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
  8. ^ "And the L.A. Times Book Prize winners are..." Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2008. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 5, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Events.latimes.com (November 22, 1963). Retrieved on 2013-10-06.
  10. ^ Douglas Hofstadter at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  11. ^ Douglas Hofstadter's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)


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