Formal grammar

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	Name/Email/Affiliation	Brief note
	Noam Chomsky (edit) (chomskymit.edu) Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Chomsky certainly is ''the'' proponent of formal language theory, most notably with his monograph '''Syntactic Structure''' (1957), but ever since.
	John Edward Hopcroft (edit) (jehcs.cornell.edu) Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA	Professor Hopcroft is a renowned researcher of theoretical computing. He has co-authored a number of well-known books about formal languages and algorithms. He shared the 1986 Turing Award with Robert Tarjan.

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