Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP Newsgroups: net.math,net.ai Subject: Hofstadter Message-ID: <560@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 13:01:46 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.560 Posted: Sun Aug 21 13:01:46 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Aug-83 19:23:43 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 5 Douglas Hofstadter is the subject of today's N.Y. Times Magazine cover story. The article is worth reading, though not, of course, particularly deep technically. Among the points made: that Hofstadter is not held in high regard by many AI workers, because they regard him as a popularizer without any results to back up his theories.