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Douglas Hofstadter
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Douglas Hofstadter (February 15th, 1945 - ) is a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science, in the School of Informatics. He has a particular interest in analogies, recursion, and self-reference, coining, for example, "Hofstadter's Law": It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
His published works include: Gödel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid and I am a Strange Loop. He won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for GEB in general non-fiction.
Dr. Hofstadter also wrote a column for Scientific American called Metamagical Themas. The columns were later published in book form.
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