Douglas Hofstadter

1945 -

Country of citizenship: United States

Languages spoken, written or signed: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Standard Chinese, Mandarin, Hindi

Educated at: Stanford University, University of Oregon, Palo Alto High School, University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences

Occupation: philosopher, writer, university teacher, computer scientist, physicist

Award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Award, CSS Fellow, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Barwise Prize, Albertus-Magnus professorate, honorary doctor of the Cergy-Pontoise University

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Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945) 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 (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. Source: Wikipedia (en)