So while we're on the subject of MIT, you reference Chomsky a lot when you're in your linguistic stuff.

Yes. You must have been colleagues there then for...

Not in the same department because he was in linguistics and I was in cognitive science, but certainly colleagues at the same institute.

Yeah.

And for people that know no much about Chomsky, how can you give a bio for him or could you tell

a little bit about him?

Well he is famous for two reasons. One of them is his political activism. He is a very

vociferous critic of American and British foreign policy. He is a leftist but not Marxist. He calls himself an

anarcho syndicalist, which is a kind of anarchist, anarchist of the left. There's also

a right-wing anarchist movement, kind of more

libertarian objectivist, Einrand, style, but he is more of a communitarian

libertarian anarchist.

But anyway, a fierce critic of Israel, of Britain, of the US,

and an early critic of the Vietnam War. And he has a huge following

a huge following because of his prolific output in politics.

I mean, probably more than a hundred books.

He's on the rage against the Machine cites him in their liner notes.

I think Chambawamba had one of his lectures on the B side of one of their records

when they used to be records.

But then he is also famous for having really founded the modern approach to linguistics

starting in the 1950s when he was just in his 20s.

He pretty much revolutionized the field. He polarized the

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