John A. Goldsmith

Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, with appointments in Linguistics and Computer Science. Senior Fellow, Computation Institute of Argonne National Laboratory. Pioneered the use of rich geometric structures in the modeling of phonological structures in linguistics, beginning with his work on autosegmental phonology in his dissertation, and later in other publications. In subsequent work, he focused on ways in which contemporary statistical learning theory can inform and advance our understanding of what the ultimate goal of linguistics is. He is now completing a two volume work on the history of the mind sciences and their interaction over the last 200 years: linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and logic. 

~