Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) 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.

See also: Chomsky hierarchy /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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