Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky : biography

December 7, 1928 –

In 2010, Chomsky received the Erich Fromm Prize in Stuttgart, Germany. In April 2010, Chomsky became the third scholar to receive the University of Wisconsin’s A.E. Havens Center’s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship.

Chomsky has an Erdős number of four.

Chomsky was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine Prospect. He reacted, saying "I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls".

In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted seventh in the list of "Heroes of our time". 

Actor Viggo Mortensen with avant-garde guitarist Buckethead dedicated their 2006 album, called Pandemoniumfromamerica, to Chomsky.

On January 22, 2010, a special honorary concert for Chomsky was given at Kresge Auditorium at MIT.

The concert, attended by Chomsky and dozens of his family and friends, featured music composed by Edward Manukyan and speeches by Chomsky's colleagues, including David Pesetsky of MIT and Gennaro Chierchia, head of the linguistics department at Harvard University. 

In June 2011, Chomsky was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, which cited his "unfailing courage, critical analysis of power and promotion of human rights".

In 2011, Chomsky was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems’ AI’s Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems". Press release source: PRWeb (Vocus).

In 2013, a newly described species of bee has been named after him: Megachile chomskyi.

Filmography

  • Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Director: Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick (1992)
  • Last Party 2000, Director: Rebecca Chaiklin and Donovan Leitch (2001)
  • Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times, Director: John Junkerman (2002)
  • Distorted Morality – America’s War On Terror?, Director: John Junkerman (2003)
  • Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (TV), Director: Will Pascoe (2003)
  • The Corporation, Directors: Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott; Writer: Joel Bakan (2003)
  • Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land, Directors: Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff (2004)
  • On Power, Dissent and Racism: A discussion with Noam Chomsky, Journalist: Nicolas Rossier; Producers: Eli Choukri, Baraka Productions (2004)
  • Lake of Fire, Director: Tony Kaye (2006)
  • American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals, Director: Richard Hall (2008)
  • Chomsky & Cie Director: Olivier Azam (out in 2008)
  • An Inconvenient Tax, Director: Christopher P. Marshall (out in 2009)
  • The Money Fix, Director: Alan Rosenblith (2009)
  • Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space, Director: Denis Delestrac (2010)
  • Article 12: Waking up in a surveillance society, Director: Juan Manuel Biaiñ (2010)
  • In 2012, Chomsky performed a deadpan cameo role in "MIT Gangnam Style", a parody of the "Gangnam Style" music video.Webster, C. Noam Chomsky appears in MIT student’s ‘Gangnam Style’ tribute (2012). The Raw Story. Retrieved from: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/28/noam-chomsky-appears-in-mit-students-gangnam-style-tribute/The Blaze (2012). "Noam Chomsky Appears in Viral MIT-Themed ‘Gangnam Style’ Video (Yes, Really)". Retrieved from: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/noam-chomsky-appears-in-viral-mit-themed-gangnam-style-video-yes-really/ Also known informally as "Chomsky Style";MIT ‘Chomsky Style’ Best Gangnam Parody Yet? Noted Intellectual Steals The Wacky Show (2012). The Huffington Post. Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/mit-chomsky-style-best-gagnam-style-parody-yet_n_2040053.html?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology the video was described as the "Best Gangnam Style Parody Yet" by The Huffington Post and it became a multi-million viewed "most popular" video on YouTube in its own right. (video link)