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  2. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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    Libertarianism portal. United States portal. v. t. e. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ noʊmˈtʃɒmski / ⓘ nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [ a ] Chomsky is also a major ...

  3. Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    The Chomsky hierarchy in the fields of formal language theory, computer science, and linguistics, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. A formal grammar describes how to form strings from a language's vocabulary (or alphabet) that are valid according to the language's syntax. The linguist Noam Chomsky theorized that four ...

  4. History of compiler construction - Wikipedia

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    The formalism of context-free grammars was developed in the mid-1950s by Noam Chomsky. [18] Block structure was introduced into computer programming languages by the ALGOL project (1957–1960), which, as a consequence, also featured a context-free grammar to describe the resulting ALGOL syntax.

  5. Computer graphics (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Computer graphics studies manipulation of visual and geometric information using computational techniques. It focuses on the mathematical and computational foundations of image generation and processing rather than purely aesthetic issues. Computer graphics is often differentiated from the field of visualization, although the two fields have ...

  6. Computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal of specialized hardware and software has been developed, with the displays of most ...

  7. Cognitive revolution - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive revolution. The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes, from which emerged a new field known as cognitive science. [1] The preexisting relevant fields were psychology, linguistics, computer science, anthropology, neuroscience, and philosophy ...

  8. Noam Chomsky bibliography and filmography - Wikipedia

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    Noam Chomsky interview By Maria Hinojosa. Noam Chomsky on America's Foreign Policy; By Peshawa Muhammed. Noam Chomsky on The US-Kurdish Relations and the Kurdish Question in Iraq; Noam Chomsky on Iraq and US Foreign Policy; By Andrew Marr. The Big Idea; By Big Think. Noam Chomsky On William Buckley, Iraq, Israel and the Global Power Dynamic

  9. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    Chao's poem, entitled Making Sense Out of Nonsense: The Story of My Friend Whose "Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously" (after Noam Chomsky) was published in 1971. This poem attempts to explain what "colorless green ideas" are and how they are able to "sleep furiously". Chao interprets "colorless" as plain, "green" as unripened, and "sleep ...