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Douglas Hofstadter | |
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.jpg) Hofstadter in 2006 | |
| Born | Douglas Richard Hofstadter February 15, 1945 New York City, US |
| Education | Stanford University (BS) University of Oregon (PhD) |
| Known for | Gödel, 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) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | National 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 | |
| Fields | Cognitive science Philosophy of mind Artificial Intelligence Physics |
| Institutions | Indiana University Stanford University University of Oregon University of Michigan |
| Thesis | The Energy Levels of Bloch Electrons in a Magnetic Field (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gregory Wannier[2] |
| Doctoral students | David Chalmers Robert M. French Scott A. Jones Melanie Mitchell |
| Website | cogs.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 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]
- ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ Hofstadter, Douglas Richard (1975). The Energy Levels of Bloch Electrons in a Magnetic Field (PhD thesis). University of Oregon. ProQuest 288009604.
- ^ a b Hofstadter, Douglas R. (2008) [2003]. I Am a Strange Loop. New York, NY: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-03079-8.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "General Nonfiction" Archived February 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ A bedside book of paradoxes Archived March 26, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New York Times
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1980" Archived August 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
- ^ "And the L.A. Times Book Prize winners are..." Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2008. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
- ^ "Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books» Winners by Award". Archived from the original on April 5, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2012.. Events.latimes.com (November 22, 1963). Retrieved on 2013-10-06.
- ^ Douglas Hofstadter at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ Douglas Hofstadter's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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