linguistics

Like many college kids, Allaire became interested in the work of Noam Chomsky, an American scholar known for his work in linguistics, political activism and social criticism.

For decades, her husband—Alexander Nakhimovsky, a professor of linguistics and computer science who went by Sasha—managed that aspect of their life.

A faculty committee insisted other departments, like English and linguistics, be included too out of solidarity.

This year, it outperformed models from OpenAI and Google in several advanced tests, including one that asks Ph.D.-level questions about topics ranging from ancient linguistics to gravitational physics.

Faith Webb, 20, says she sees "a lot of people in lectures in a work uniform" on her linguistics course at the University of Manchester.