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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Oregon, 1975; B.S. in Mathematics, Stanford University, 1965.

Research Interests: Cognitive science, artificial intelligence, consciousness, analogy-making, and the nature of creativity. Known for exploring self-reference and recursive structures in cognition and computation.

Appointments: Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Indiana University Bloomington; Director, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1980) for Gödel, Escher, Bach; National Book Award (1980).

Publications:

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979)
• I Am a Strange Loop (Basic Books, 2007)
• Metamagical Themas (Basic Books, 1985)

Additional Contributions: Frequent public lectures on AI and consciousness; translations of French and Russian literature, including Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin.