 Yet, that said, it is also noted that the implications of his later work do indeed remain largely unexamined.Shortly before his death (September 1980), Piaget was involved in a debate about the relationships between innate and acquired features of language, at the Centre Royaumont pour une Science de l'Homme, where he discussed his point of view with the linguist Noam Chomsky as well as Hilary Putnam and Stephen Toulmin.Piaget also had a considerable effect in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence.