Birth Name:

Douglas Hofstadter

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Feb 15, 1945

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New York, New York, United States

Age:

79

Zodiac Sign:

Aquarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

26°

Aqu

38'

About Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science.[note 1] His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Stanford University Presidential Lecture – site dedicated to Hofstadter and his work

• Douglas Hofstadter at DBLP Bibliography Server

• "The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think" by James Somers, The Atlantic, November 2013 issue

• Profile at Resonance Publications

• NF Reviews – bibliographic page with reviews of several of Hofstadter's books

• "Autoportrait with Constraint" – a short autobiography in the form of a lipogram

• Github repo of sourcecode & literature of Hofstadter's students work

• Douglas Hofstadter on the Literature Map

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