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Governing Board Symposium with Noam Chomsky The Biology of Language in the 21st Century Date: July 22, 2011 Run Time: 1 hours 19 minutes Speakers: Noam Chomsky DOWNLOAD Audio: gbsympchomsky.mp3



Avram Noam Chomsky is a legendary American linguist, computer scientist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics” and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. He is also the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author".