Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of, and 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. Hofstadter's book, first published in 1979, won both the for general non-fictionand a (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science.
His 2007 book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. United StatesNationalityUnited StatesEducation(BSc)(PhD)Known forSpouse(s)Carol Ann Brush (1985–1993; her death; 2 children)Baofen Lin (2012–present)AwardsMember of theScientific careerFieldsInstitutions(1974)Doctoral studentsWebsiteEarly life and educationHofstadter was born in, the son of -winning physicist and Nancy Givan Hofstadter. He grew up on the campus of, where his father was a professor, and he attended the in 1958–1959. He graduated with Distinction in from in 1965, and received his in from the in 1975, where his study of the energy levels of in a magnetic field led to his discovery of the known as the.
Academic careerSince 1988, Hofstadter has been the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at in Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition which consists of himself and his graduate students, forming the 'Fluid Analogies Research Group' (FARG). He was initially appointed to the Indiana University's Computer Science Department faculty in 1977, and at that time he launched his research program in computer modeling of mental processes (which at that time he called 'artificial intelligence research', a label that he has since dropped in favor of 'cognitive science research'). In 1984, he moved to the in Ann Arbor, where he was hired as a professor of psychology and was also appointed to the Walgreen Chair for the Study of Human Understanding. In 1988 he returned to Bloomington as 'College of Arts and Sciences Professor' in both cognitive science and computer science. He was also appointed adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, comparative literature, and psychology, but has said that his involvement with most of those departments is nominal. In 1988 Hofstadter received the In Praise of Reason award, the 's highest honor. In April 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the and a member of the.
In 2010 he was elected a member of the, Sweden.Hofstadter's many interests include music, visual art, the,. Hofstadter giving a presentation at the 2006At the University of Michigan and Indiana University, he co-authored, with, a computational model of 'high-level perception' – – and several other models of and, including the Tabletop project, co-developed with. Hofstadter's doctoral student James Marshall subsequently extended the Copycat project under the name 'Metacat'.
The Letter Spirit project, implemented by Gary McGraw and John Rehling, aims to model the act of artistic creativity by designing stylistically uniform 'gridfonts' (typefaces limited to a grid). Other more recent models include Phaeaco (implemented by Harry Foundalis) and SeqSee (Abhijit Mahabal), which model high-level perception and analogy-making in the microdomains of and number sequences, respectively, as well as George (Francisco Lara-Dammer), which models the processes of perception and discovery in triangle geometry.The pursuit of has driven Hofstadter both inside and outside his professional work. He seeks beautiful mathematical patterns, beautiful explanations, beautiful typefaces, beautiful sonic patterns in poetry, etc. Hofstadter has said of himself, 'I'm someone who has one foot in the world of humanities and arts, and the other foot in the world of science.' He has had several exhibitions of his artworks in various university art galleries. These shows have featured large collections of his gridfonts, his (pieces of calligraphy created with two readings, either of which is usually obtained from the other by rotating or reflecting the ambigram, but sometimes simply by 'oscillation', like the or the of ), and his 'Whirly Art' (music-inspired visual patterns realized using shapes based on various alphabets from India).
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'New Light on the New Age CSICOP's Chicago conference was the first to critically evaluate the New Age movement'. The Skeptical Inquirer. 13 (3): 226–235. Archived from on July 28, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2016. From the original on April 29, 2016.
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Hofstadter, Douglas R. Le Ton Beau de Marot. New York: Basic Books, 1997, pp. 16–17. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Le Ton Beau de Marot, Chapter 'How Jolly the Lot of an Oligoglot', New York: Basic Books, 1997, pp.
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March 30, 2008, at the 35 minute video, May 13, 2006. December 28, 2007, at the. 'Staring EMI Straight in the Eye—and Doing My Best Not to Flinch.' In David Cope, Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001. August 17, 2007, at the – 1988 docudrama about the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter.
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Metamagical Themas, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Basic Books, New Yoork (1985), see preface, introduction, contents listing. December 12, 2007, at the Spring 1996, Vol. X. Piano Music by Douglas Hofstadter (Audio CD), 2000. Hofstadter, Douglas R.
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