Tag: Harvard Miller
(Night at the Museum continues.) "Strategies for making or acquiring tools While the creation of new tools marked the route to developing the social sciences, the question remained:…
For a modern Adam and Eve— W. Tecumseh Fitch and Gesche Westphal Fitch, editors of a new four-volume collection titled Language Evolution (Feb. 2, 2012, $1,360)— Related material— "At…
… Chomsky vs. Santa From a New Yorker weblog yesterday— "Happy Birthday, Noam Chomsky." by Gary Marcus— "… two titans facing off, with Chomsky, as ever, defining the…
( Continued from yesterday's post FLT ) Context Part I — "In 1957, George Miller initiated a research programme at Harvard University to investigate rule-learning, in situations where participants…
The "FLT" of the above title is not Fermat's Last Theorem, but Formal Language Theory (see image below). In memory of George A. Miller, Harvard cognitive psychologist, who…