This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American To read the headline accompanying Ibbotson ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...

I was disappointed with Yann LeCun’s Lunch with the FT (January 3). If this guru’s definition of intelligence is as basic as he claims, I doubt we will ever make transformative progress with AI. He ...

The father of modern linguistics delivered the first of several public lectures at UCLA on Monday as part of a weeklong lecture series. Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts ...

Latest issue of New Scientist has an interview with Noam Chomsky on, language, human nature, social media and politics, as well as a little photo gallery. Excerpt here, the full thing is online, you ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

You can order Gnome Chomsky, the Garden Noam for $195, plus shipping. A ‘What Would Noam Do?’ mug can be yours for $15. ‘Colorless green ideas sleep furiously,’ an oft-repeated demonstration of how ...

In an earlier post, Is There A Language Instinct?, based on my book, The Language Myth, I observed that the philosopher and linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky, argues that Universal Grammar can be ...