fgtbell@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC450) (11/21/85)
Sender:francis bell
Xpath: kcl-cs neon
I would be interested to know if this is the only college running a course
on Hofstadter's fascinating book, Godel,Escher,Bach:an Eternal Golden Braid.
Here at Westfield we are in the middle of a 10-week course on the book.This
is organised by the Computer Science Dept,but closely follows the material in
the book and therefore involves listening to Bach,studying pc and TNT as well
as the more conventional discussions on Programmability.
The course therefore comes close to being interdisciplinary,and the
number of students attending seems to indicate that this approach is welcomed
by a particular type of student who wishes to gain a broad overview of CS
and related issues such as machine intelligence.
I would be interested to see postings from anyone else who has heard of ,or
attended such a course.In particular I would like to know what Dr. Hofstadter
has to say about it ; are you out there ,Dr Hofstadter ?
If anyone on the net shows interest I'll post a more detailed article
describing exactly what the course is like.
--
---francis
King's College London Department of Computing.
( !kcl-cs!neon!westf!fgtbell )
Long live Westfield ! [aaaargh!...stabbed in the back by a merger]kerry@ctvax (11/28/85)
At the university where I received my baccalaureate degree, Hofstadtler's book was used in the basic AI course as a fundamental element. Bach's as well as Escher's works were examined in context. The course at the time was listed in the undergraduate catalog as an advanced studies class under the Department of Computer Science, Texas Christian University. ctvax!kerry kerry.ct@CSNet-Relay