“uncomfortable with the nerd culture that centers on computers”
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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, a…
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Born 15 February 1945 · Q319308
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2026· 2 entries
Time: Douglas Hofstadter
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2023· 1 entry
In a 2023 interview, Hofstadter said that rapid progress in AI made some of his "core beliefs" about AI's limitations "collapse".
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Albertus-Magnus professorate in University of Cologne (2018).
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Barwise Prize (2011).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Cergy-Pontoise University (2011).
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2010· 3 entries
Scientific American: Remembering Martin Gardner, with Douglas Hofstadter
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Hofstadter met his second wife, Baofen Lin, in a cha-cha-cha class
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Was elected a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden
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2009· 1 entry
Was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and became a member of the American Philosophical Society
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2007· 1 entry
And That Mad Ache was published in 2009, bound together with Hofstadter's essay "Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation"
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1999· 2 entries
Organized such a symposium, and in April 2000, he organized a larger symposium titled "Spiritual Robots" at Stanford University, in which he moderated a panel consisting of Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Kevin Kelly, Ral
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The bicentennial year of the Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin, Hofstadter published a verse translation of Pushkin's classic novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin
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1993· 1 entry
From the sudden onset of a brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, when their children were young
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1988· 3 entries
Received the In Praise of Reason award, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's highest honor
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Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos created a docudrama about Hofstadter and his ideas, Victim of the Brain, based on The Mind's I
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Hofstadter returned to IU as College of Arts and Sciences Professor in cognitive science and computer science
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1987· 1 entry
A book of 200 of his ambigrams, together with a long dialogue with his alter ego Egbert G
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1985· 2 entries
“Solomon: Your entry in Wikipedia says that your work has inspired many students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence.Hofstadter: I have no interest in computers. The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me.Solomon: So fix it.Hofstadter: The next day someone will fix it back.”
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“A Person Paper on Purity in Language”
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1984· 1 entry
Moved to the University of Michigan 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
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award (1980).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1980).
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1977· 1 entry
And at that time he launched his research program in computer modeling of mental processes (which he called "artificial intelligence research", a label he has since dropped in favor of "cognitive science research")
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1976· 1 entry
Studied at University of Oregon, Doctor of Philosophy (1976).
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1965· 1 entry
And attended graduate school in mathematics, but dropped out after feeling unable to keep up in what he called a "hugely bitter blow to my ego"
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-02-15.
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