Douglas Hofstadter is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Douglas Hofstadter as American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science.
Douglas Hofstadter was born at New York City in 1945. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Stanford University and University of Oregon.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Douglas Hofstadter is described as philosopher, writer and university teacher.
His affiliations include University of Michigan and Indiana University.
Among his principal works are Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are cognitive science.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1980).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Douglas Hofstadter is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction — 1980
- Notable work: Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Notable work: I Am a Strange Loop
- Affiliated with University of Michigan and Indiana University
- Educated at Stanford University, University of Oregon and Palo Alto High School
- Worked as philosopher, writer and university teacher
