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Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky is an American linguist and philosopher and is considered the father of linguistics. He made important contributions to linguistics and to the theory of grammars, and his work has had a major influence on language design and the theory of programming languages.

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O’Regan, G. (2013). Noam Chomsky. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_16

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