People | Noam Chomsky

2012-02-04: Headlines

• Arizona Daily Wildcat: An Evening with Noam Chomsky: 'Education for Whom and For What?' 2012-02-04

  Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist, will be speaking at the UA. "An Evening with Noam Chomsky" will feature a talk on the state of higher education, followed by a question and answer session. Doors open at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. lecture.

2012-02-03: Headlines

• Defence Management: Nuclear Iran 'would be vaporised' 2012-02-03

  The development of nuclear weapons by Iran would be unlikely to pose a threat to the West as the country would almost certainly be 'vaporised' if it even armed a missile, prominent academic Noam Chomsky has said. Iran has faced heavy sanctions...

2012-02-02: Headlines

• Moneycontrol.com: Chomsky, scholars urge Thai reform of lese majeste law 2012-02-02

  NULL: BANGKOK (Reuters) - American linguist Noam Chomsky , Princeton University professor Cornell West and 221 other foreign scholars have urged Thailand's prime minister to revise laws that shield the country's monarchy from criticism, lending their voice...

• TVNZ: Noam Chomsky urges Thai PM to revise laws 2012-02-02

  American linguist Noam Chomsky, Princeton University professor Cornell West and 221 other foreign scholars have urged Thailand's prime minister to…

• PublicServiceEurope.com: The world according to Noam Chomsky 2012-02-02

  Keywords:... that the Republican establishment is backing Mitt Romney and will beat back any opposition. After that, it is hard to predict, we can only look at the polls. It really will depend on the way forces are mobilised as well as the economy." Noam Chomsky .

• AZ Central.com: Chandler City Hall to broadcast Noam Chomsky talk 2012-02-02

  Keywords: , Appearance of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist getting mixed reactions in city.

About Chomsky

Bangkok Post: 'Resonant and unwavering' 2008-07-14

Noam Chomsky talks to the 'Bangkok Post' about the Vietnam War, Burma and the future of the human race

Bangkok Post

Story by STUART ALAN BECKER

He opposed the Vietnam War long before it was fashionable to do so. He revolutionised the field of linguistics and helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology. He changed the way scientists approach the study of the human mind.

His "Chomsky Hierarchy" is taught in basic computer science because it offers insight into the nature of how languages are structured. His theories of Generative and Universal Grammar indicate that the human mind comes hard-wired with default settings that enable infants to quickly learn any language spoken around them.

When the US dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Chomsky walked off into the woods to be alone and contemplate what he later called "one of the most unspeakable crimes in history".

For the last 50 years Avram Noam Chomsky, now in his 80th year, has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was voted No. 1 in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals, compiled in November, 2005 by Prospect Magazine of the UK and Foreign Policy of the US on the basis of a readers' ballot consisting of more than 20,000 votes. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� [more]