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Hofstadter received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975. He is currently (2002) a professor of cognitive science and computer science (among others) at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the son of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter.
Douglas is bilingual (English and French), having spent his youth in Geneva. He spent a few years in Sweden in the mid 1960s and understands Swedish. He also speaks Italian, German and some Russian.
His interests include themes of the mind, creativity, consciousness, self-reference, translation, and mathematical games.
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