May you have many more!

Here's wishing Nihar a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 

Woo.

Question 660: 1,2,3,4,5...

Guest question courtesy Kishore Narendran.

Associate 2^128 (340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456)
and the date 8th June, 2011 with the pictures below. Connect.

Question 601.f: Alpha Tango Oscar Zulu

__X___ is a 1995 book by Douglas Hofstadter and other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling. It contends that the notions of analogy and fluidity are fundamental to explain how the human mind solves problems and to create computer programs that show intelligent behavior. It analyses several computer programs that members of the group have created over the years to solve problems that require intelligence.


The book is a collection of revised articles that appeared in precedence, each preceded by an introduction by Hofstadter. They describe the scientific work by him and his collaborators in the 1980s and 1990s. The project started in the late 1970s at Indiana University, where Hofstadter collaborated with Marsha Meredith and Gray Clossman. In 1983 he took a sabbatical year at MIT, working in Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Lab. There he met and collaborated with Melanie Mitchell, who subsequently did her Ph.D. with him, David Rogers, and Marek Lugowski. Subsequently Hofstadter moved to the University of Michigan, where the FARG (Fluid Analogies Research Group) was founded. Eventually he returned to Indiana University in 1988, continuing the FARG research there. The book was written during a sabbatical year at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica in Trento, Italy.

Given that mouthfull, what place does this have on this particular theme?
#brownie points for __X__, if you can remember the whole name.
& the title explanation.

For TLDR Quizzers like me, & Tineyers (No connection)

Question 517: Look beyond Momos, there are other strings (Nagaratna's Question)

Due to unforseen reasons, Nagaratna can't post today
so she just sent me the question, along with the name, etc.

Given below is a panel from a webcomic

Now for the question:

1)      In memoriam of whom?

2)      He was the pioneer, procrastinator, inventor of? Just give me what he’s famous for. That will suffice.

3)      Identify the web comic

Question 382: F**K You (Happy X Day on Nov 5th)

(pic 2)


(pic 1)

Born and Brought up in York, X's father died when he was 8. He mother later married a recusant Catholic, which had a significant bearing upon him later in his life.
Described as "a tall, powerfully built man, with thick reddish-brown hair, a flowing moustache in the tradition of the time, and a bushy reddish-brown beard", and that he was "a man of action ... capable of intelligent argument as well as physical endurance, somewhat to the surprise of his enemies."

Today is the 405th anniversary of a significant event in X's life.
Picture 2 is the after math of that event

Question:

1) Id the picture
2) Id X
3) What is X famous for.
4) What does the 2nd pic depict
5) How is it connected to the title