Chomsky
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Chomsky is a Belarus'-origin surname, and may refer to:
It might be noted that Elsie, William, Avram Noam, Carol, Marvin, and Aviva are all closely related. William and Elsie were husband and wife. Avram Noam is their son. Carol and Avram Noam were married until Carol's death in 2008; Aviva is their daughter. Marvin is Avram Naom's cousin. Also, Judith is Avram Noam's sister in-law.
- Aviva ChomskyAviva ChomskyAviva Chomsky is an American historian, author, and activist. She teaches at Salem State College in Massachusetts, where she is also the coordinator of the Latin American studies program. She previously taught at Bates College in Maine, and was a research associate at Harvard University, where she...
(born 1957), American historian - Carol (Schatz) ChomskyCarol ChomskyCarol Chomsky was an American linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children....
(1930–2008), American linguist and wife of Noam Chomsky - Elsie Chomsky, American educator
- Judith ChomskyJudith ChomskyJudith Brown Chomsky is an American human rights lawyer. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1942, and is the sister-in-law of MIT professor Noam Chomsky....
(born 1942), American human rights lawyer and co-founder of the Juvenile Law Center - Marvin J. ChomskyMarvin J. ChomskyMarvin J. Chomsky is an American television and film director. He has also worked as a producer. He is a cousin of academic Noam Chomsky....
(born 1929), American television and film director - Avram Noam ChomskyNoam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
(born 1928), American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, lecturer, professor emeritus at MITMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, known for early work in transformational grammarTransformational grammarIn linguistics, a transformational grammar or transformational-generative grammar is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars...
and A.I.Artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its... - William ChomskyWilliam ChomskyWilliam Chomsky was an American scholar of Hebrew, born in Russia , who was a professor at Gratz College. He was made faculty president of Gratz in 1932, a position that he held for thirty seven years. He also taught at Dropsie College, a graduate school of Jewish and Semitic studies from 1955...
(1896–1977), American scholar of Hebrew - Pavel Osipovich Khomsky
It might be noted that Elsie, William, Avram Noam, Carol, Marvin, and Aviva are all closely related. William and Elsie were husband and wife. Avram Noam is their son. Carol and Avram Noam were married until Carol's death in 2008; Aviva is their daughter. Marvin is Avram Naom's cousin. Also, Judith is Avram Noam's sister in-law.
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