Recently I stumbled across an essay by Douglas Hofstadter that made me happy. Hofstadter is an eminent cognitive scientist and the author of books like “Gödel, Escher, Bach” and “I Am a Strange Loop.” ...
Religion Dispatches: Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter is a professor of cognitive science and comparative literature at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is the author of, among other books, Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fluid Concepts ...
Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, thinks we've lost sight of what artificial intelligence really means. His stubborn quest to replicate the human mind.
M.C. Escher's artwork was an inspiration for Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", sometimes referred to as the Bible of artificial intelligence. The field of ...
Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979. In 1983, he coined the word “ambigram”, meaning a piece of text ...
What do the science-fiction action thriller “The Matrix,” a suite of Salvador Dali’s paintings and Douglas Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book “Gödel, Escher, Bach” have in common?
The cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter is well known for his pioneering work on artificial intelligence, his brilliant writing about language and identity, and for his classic, Pulitzer ...
The Eternal Golden Braid: Gödel, Escher, Bach, with Marcus du Sautoy, Mahan Esfahani and Robert Thomas, Barbican, London, 9 March CAN you tell when a piece of music has been written by a machine? Back ...