[MUSIC PLAYING]
PRESENTER: With the help
of the MIT library staff,
I was able to determine how
often he is cited in the Arts
and Humanities Citation Index.
As of the last time the
statistics were compiled,
we discovered that
he is in the top 10.
It happens that none of the
others are still living.
[LAUGHING]
He is the most
cited living author.
I thought you might like to
know the names of the company he
keeps.
They are, in order,
Marx, Lenin--
[LAUGHING]
[APPLAUSE]
Shakespeare, Aristotle, the
Bible, Plato, Freud, Chomsky,
followed by Hegel and Cicero.
[LAUGHING]
[APPLAUSE]
I would like to
read from the award.
It says "the President and
faculty of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
have the honor
to present the James R. Killian,
Junior Faculty Achievement
Award to Noam Chomsky,
and to announce
his appointment as Killian Award
Lecturer for the academic year
91-92.
In recognition of his
extraordinary contributions
to linguistics, philosophy, and
in cognitive psychology, one
of the foremost thinkers
of this century,
he revolutionized the study of
language and of the human mind.
