3. D.R.Hofstadter personal info
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This article is from the Hofstadter and GEB FAQ, by TANAKA Tomoyuki tanaka@cs.indiana.edu with numerous contributions by others.
3. D.R.Hofstadter personal info
from: http://www.psych.indiana.edu/cogsci/hofstadter.html
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| Douglas Hofstadter
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| College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science;
| Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,
| Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology
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| Research Interests
| The main focus of my research is on emergent models of high-level
| perception, analogical thought, and creativity. [...]
info easily available from publications:
--- born in 1945
--- father Robert Hofstadter received the 1961 Nobel Prize in
physics.
see http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/chogan/Web/hof.html
--- grew up bilingual (English, French) from having lived in Geneva.
--- Ph.D. in physics, University of Oregon, 1975
see the "butterfly" picture, Fig 34 (Page 143) in GEB.
see: http://www.penguin.co.uk/Penguin/Authors/1715.html
for more info look in "Contemporary Authors" in the library.
or look in "Le Ton beau de Marot".
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