Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He created the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages important in the theory of computation. He is also well-known for his radical political activism: socialism and anarchism.

A seminal work of him was The sound pattern of English.

One of his better-known political texts is Manufacturing Consent -- The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-authored with [Edward S. Herman]? and which was intended to show how financial interests in the United States' media influence the news. Controversy over this text has been fierce and extensive.

Chomsky's linguistics ideas have resulted in the insult: "Chomsky is the Freud of linguistics". This insult derives from the notion that Chomsky and Freud both completely ignored the scientific method in creating their "theories".

See also: /Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, Corporatocracy, Doublespeak

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External links

• [Noam Chomsky's own MIT homepage]
• [Chomsky and socialism]
• [Chomsky and anarchism]
• [More on Chomsky and anarchism]
• [The Noam Chomsky Archive]
• [The ''Chomskybot'' - a demonstration of a peculiarly primitive variety of computational linguistics]
• A good start at fleshing out this article would be to follow some links on this list: http://www.google.com/search?q=noam+chomsky.

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