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From: bob@mind.UUCP (Bob Freidin)
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Subject: Chomsky awarded Kyoto Prize in basic sciences
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Date: 25 Jul 88 19:05:48 GMT
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On June 24th the Inamori Foundation of Japan announced the recipients of
this year's Kyoto Prizes.  

	Basic Sciences:  Noam Chomsky (for contributions to Linguistics)

	Advanced Technology:  John McCarthy (for pioneering in Artificial
				   Intelligence)

	Creative Arts and Moral Sciences:  Paul Thieme (for contributions 
					to the history of Indian philosophy)

Each recipient will receive a prize of 45 million yen (approx. $350,000).
This is the fourth year these prizes, characterized as Japan's version of 
the Nobel, have been awarded.  Kyoto Prize Laureates in the first two areas 
include:

		Basic Sciences		Advanced Technology

 	1985:	Claude E. Shannon 	Rudolf Emil Kalman
        1986:	George E. Hutchinson	Nicole M. Le Douarin
	1987:   Jan H. Oort		Morris Cohen

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Robert Freidin
Director
Program in Linguistics
Princeton University