Dear Ji,
Here are some of my achievements, successes and
accomplishments re my applying for a junior faculty position at MIT, as a kind
of "brag letter."
It's been said that content is king on the web, and
my big CC World University and School project - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - wiki-facilitates content
generation in all 7,943 languages + and with developing AI, machine learning and machine translation. I'm also proud that WUaS's virtual earth/reality and
STEM-research will seek to wiki-generate content and data at the Google Street
View level, the neuronal level and the nano level, with regard to a new
methodology I'm developing called ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, where STEM
researchers in all languages will be able to add their research, videos,
computer modeling and many other aspects of their research. I'm also proud that CC WUaS is CC MIT
OCW-centric in its 7 languages, and planning free CC accrediting degrees -
undergraduate (BS/BA), Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school - in all 204+
countries' main and official languages. In an UC Berkeley law course this spring
as a pro bono "client," WUaS developed an extended correspondence
with MIT Associate Dean of Digital Learning and former Executive Director of MIT
OCW, Cecilia d'Oliveira, and further determined that CC WUaS can both
"share" and "adapt" CC MIT OCW's ~2300 courses in English
and its other courseware in 6 languages anew and develop them with AI, machine learning and
machine translation databases. What a lot of interactive, highest quality STEM content
this will generate, and, again, in all 7,943+ languages.
As you may know, WUaS in addition to sharing and
adapting for free, especially CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC highest quality university courseware for CC degrees, is a wiki, like CC Wikipedia and is planning to develop in CC Wikidata, which is Wikipedia's 3.5 year old database
developing with AI, machine learning and machine translation. I think it's also
far-reaching how much content and data WUaS may generate by
"wiki-fying" CC MIT OCW (making it editable) and thus facilitate potentially all 7
billion people to teach alongside MIT OCW and potentially in their
8,000+ languages. Again, what a lot of content machine processes alone will generate,
and WUaS retains human teachers in our degree programs and wiki schools, which is something of which I'm
proud.
On our forking WUaS commercial side, WUaS also
further delineated 10 planned planned revenue streams (http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html), many of which are
planned in all 7,943+ languages, that will further both generate amazing
academic content, but especially also commercial content. I'm proud that this
may lead to real growth of WUaS in addition to its content.
WUaS is planning to develop Bitcoin and Block Chain digital currency in all ~204+ countries (per the 2008 Olympics),
with WUaS hiring the lawyers first as graduate students to help write the code for
articulating this with existing nation states' legal systems, as well as with countries' existing banking systems. I hope our Quaker/Friendly ethos will increase the level of fairness with which we do this for
all peoples. WUaS seeks to benefit all peoples with both free highest quality
MIT OCW-centric education, and economically with related CC MIT OCW Sloan
School degrees, for example, as well as with an entrepreneurial spirit where students in many
languages may learn by creating online businesses, and cooperatives, even.
WUaS is planning an Universal Translator in all
7,943+ languages and also to further invigorate small or so called "dying/dead"
languages. I've also given online talks on this Universal Translator in both ISSIP as well as for IBM's CSIG.
I'm so glad L.V., and J.Sp. (both of whom went to
MIT in chemistry and physics as undergraduates) as well as N.G. (who wrote the introduction
and back cover blurb to my actual virtual Harbin ethnographic book) have all
said they'd write recommendations for me for this MIT OCW faculty position I'm applying for -
something I'm happy to brag about. Thank you all.
I've taught a course called "Information
Technology and the Network Society" on Harvard's virtual island in Second
Life, and more recently also in Google group video Hangouts, for more than 8 semesters, and it was out of a conversation in this course
in 2008 that the idea for World University and School emerged, and I've just
kept developing and growing its content from then, with no financial gain whatsoever so far.
I've also written and published a ~ 550 page actual
virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book with introduction and back cover
blurb by UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Nelson Graburn
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html.
In this process, I've created a number of beginning virtual Harbin Hot Springs
for comparative ethnographic and STEM research, and am also planning to develop a film-realistic,
3D, group build-able, interactive virtual Harbin/earth/cosmos with all 8K
languages, with realistic and fantastic avatars, and with plans too to model the brain at the
neuronal and nano levels, to begin, for related brain research engaging what I'm
calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. I think this will find form in
something like Google Street View with OpenSim, for group building and wiki content additions. I hope too
this can lead to 3D printable places from this virtual earth, for example. This
will further yield lots of content. I've given two talks on this in the Tourism Studies' Working Group in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department with the video of this from Nov 2012 and the slides from Nov 2015 in the above Harbin book link.
In addition, WUaS planning a Music School for ALL
instruments, each a wiki subject page for open teaching and learning to begin, in ALL 7,097+ living languages, with undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees
planned in all countries' main languages, WUaS will facilitate real, real time
music making in something like Google group video Hangouts (for up to 10
people), with computer applications, and teachers, to help give feedback, and to teach. WUaS will also
seek to develop both a musical focus in how to elicit loving
bliss neurophysiology via music {and in other ways too}.
WUaS is also planning to wiki-add open free ALL museums and ALL libraries in all 8,000 languages, and perhaps in WUaS's virtual earth too, which is
also planned as a film-realistic interactive virtual classroom.
WUaS is planning online Medical Schools in all
countries' main languages with related teaching hospitals offering online clinical care.
WUaS is also planning Law Schools in all nation states,
hiring nationals from these countries as faculty, first probably as graduate
student instructors.
WUaS is also seeking to hire highest achievers from
greatest universities as faculty - the best and the brightest - and over
centuries, as well as to attract high achieving matriculating students in all countries' main languages for free CC degrees.
All of this will lead to immense amounts of fascinating content
and potentially over centuries and even millennia.
Content is still king on the web.
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
Content is still king on the web.
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
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