About 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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Awards & Honors
National Book Award
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Guggenheim Fellowship
Albertus-Magnus professorate
Barwise Prize
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
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honorary doctor of the Cergy-Pontoise University
