Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, 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, and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Stanford UniversityUniversity of OregonPalo Alto High SchoolUniversity of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences
- Awards
- 🏆 National Book Award🏆 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Albertus-Magnus professorate🏆 Barwise Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Gregory Wannier
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 David Chalmers📖 Melanie Mitchell
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1945
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