Black-tailed Godwit: Happy Valentine's Day, WUaS open monthly business meeting on 2/14 (second Saturdays), WUaS at Guidestar as a 501 c 3 : https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx

NEWSFLASH: Happy Valentine's Day

See: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/february-14-2015-monthly-business.html

News:

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WUaS's OPEN monthly business meeting meets this Saturday 2/14 at 9 am PT. Email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if interested in participating - and see WUaS's blog below for further WUaS business meeting information 

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WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html ... (and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html).

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WUaS is ready to submit the BPPE documents with its curriculum this month (February now) to the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) in the state of California. WUaS needs to raise the $5000 fee (as a tax-exempt donation). This is WUaS's main initial step to accreditation. Please donate to WUaS for this here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ . (See too: https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx). Your donations are much appreciated. 

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Red Panda: Computational Linguistics' wiki subject page at WUaS, All 7,870 languages, WUaS Universal Translator, Wikidata and Google Translate/Android, NAACL or ACL this year?, Adding cognitive systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning with time

Fei Xia and Jim, 

Greetings! Your research interests are very exciting Fei Xia. I've added your name to the Computational Linguistics' wiki subject page at World University and School, which is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OCW, such as MIT OCW and Yale OYC. WUaS is also planning to be in each of all 7,870 languages 

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages), each a wiki school (where Wikipedia is currently in 288 languages), as well as develop an Universal Translator

 (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator). 

What's the best way to communicate further with you Fei Xia 

(https://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/research/research.html) about computational linguistics, your research interests, such as your aggregation project, and very related WUaS projects? 

All the best, 

Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

PS

This is the LinkedIn conversation where I learned of your work: 

https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=6729452&type=member&item=5971361253677871104&commentID=5971432566698291200&report%2Esuccess=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_5971432566698291200

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Scott, 
Fei's work is still a long way from being of direct applicability, but it does provide a foundation and pathway for reaching the 7000+ language level someday. 

This will take many years, but we will see.  IBM would like to see cognitive systems in all languages. 

Once our cognitive systems are mature, they will be of more help with your ambitious mission of WUaS. 

However, I reiterate - please have patience - this will take many years. 

-Jim

Dr. James ("Jim") C. Spohrer
Director, IBM University Programs (IBM UP) and Cognitive Systems Institute
Innovation Champion (http://www.service-science.info/archives/2233) 

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Hi, Scott,

  It's nice to hear from you. Thank you for your interest. I guess the best way to reach me is via email. 

My schedule for the next few months are pretty full with conference deadlines and teaching. If you plan to go to NAACL or ACL this year, maybe we can find a time to chat during the conference?

  Best wishes.

Fei

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Hi Fei and Jim, 

Thanks for your emails, and it's nice to hear from you as well, Fei. WUaS is a huge project which will take decades + to realize. 

In terms of computational linguistics 

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computational_Linguistics), Fei, I think the new-ish interlingual "linked open data" database C.C. Wikidata/Wikibase - https://www.wikidata.org - designed for C.C. Wikipedia's 288 languages is one place C.C. World University and School will plan to begin to develop in all 7,870 + languages in many many ways (and also building on Google Translate, for example, with its Android + hardware presence). Have you explored Wikidata for computational linguistic reasons, Fei, by any chance? And it's building on this, Jim, that WUaS would explore adding cognitive systems, artificial intelligence (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence#World_University_and_School_Links) and machine learning with time as well. 

Fei, have you seen all these language indexes - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages#Language_Code ? What other all-languages' indexes would you suggest adding here as well?

Let's stay in touch by email for now, since I don't have plans to attend any of the meetings you suggest. I'm planning to drive to Portland Oregon, (to deliver a paper on WUaS, as well as visit Reed College) from about June 10-20 and we could conceivably meet sometime in person around this time in the NW. 

Patiently, and best regards,

Scott

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Big Sur coastline: Esalen and Harbin books, My upcoming book: "Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography – Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin," Exciting - Google Earth Pro Now Available Free, Hoping we can explore and build a whole virtual earth world interactively with realistic avatars eventually in digital goggles in Google Earth Pro with OpenSim/Second Life ...

Hi Donald,

Nice to talk with you last Friday about Esalen from BART as I was heading into SF, and to see you at San Francisco Friends Meeting on Sunday as well.

What was the house called where you were interested in its experiments or similar, and where you went to this house in the early 1980s in SF but didn’t experiment?

I think my Harbin book

Naked Harbin:

Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography – 

Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin

2015?

by Scott MacLeod

see too: 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/11/titan-arum-complete-uc-berkeley-tourism.html

... will join the three Harbin books I mentioned ...

Oneness In Living: Kundalini Yoga, the Spritual Path, and the Intentional Community

2002

by Ishvara

Harbin Hot Springs - Healing Waters, Sacred Land
1989
Ellen Klages

Sajjad Wyne
1997
The Big Bang and the Harbin Experience

... which are written about in this recent Harbin publication … http://www.harbin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Harbin_40th_anniversary.pdf  (which publication is accessible here too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/helix-aspersa-heart-consciousness.html) … I did read “Esalen” (2008) but none of the others, and you mentioned 4 Esalen books (we both may have been looking at Amazon together concurrently) for me to look at, and I’m partly emailing to check if these are they, particularly the one by Michael Murphy, which doesn't have Esalen in its title (or was it another):


The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement: The First Twenty Years Paperback – February 4, 2004
by Walter Truett Anderson (Author)

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion Paperback –
November 1, 2008
by Jeffrey J. Kripal

On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture (Religion in North America) Paperback – July 20, 2005
by Jeffrey J. Kripal (Editor), Glenn W. Shuck (Editor)

The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution Of Human Nature Paperback – April 21, 1993
by Michael Murphy

I may first check out Murphy's or Anderson's (see his interesting WAAS).

All of these books may be good to talk about with an eventual publisher ... I'm sending my proposal to Duke University Press this week I think.

Just heard Stanford's Bill Burnett talk in some Youtube videos and was impressed. I added him x 2 to WUaS in the "Design," "Career counseling," and "Finding a job you love" wiki subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects. Do you know of Burnett?

Hoping to get the state of CA BPPE initial accrediting forms done with L.V. by WUaS monthly business meeting this Saturday - still seeking the $5000 for this and did a kind of first outreach at Scottish Country Dancing on Monday - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/asteraceae-musical-outreach-talk-for.html.

Friendly cheers,
Scott


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This is exciting ... 

hoping we can explore and build a whole virtual earth world interactively with realistic avatars eventually in digital goggles in Google Earth Pro with OpenSim/Second Life ...


Google Earth Pro Now Available Free

Google Earth Pro Now Available Free

http://search.slashdot.org/story/15/02/08/1854255/google-earth-pro-now-available-free

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Asteraceae: Musical Outreach Talk {for WUaS} in Berkeley, Scottish Country Dancers, Scottish Small Pipes, "The Desperate Battle," "The Battle of Waterloo," Amanda Palmer TED Talk on "The Art of Asking," We want to accredit in California and begin to hire and grow, All this costs money, Just the initial accreditation fee with the state of California's BPPE costs $5000 and WUAS has the green light

Friends and Scottish Country Dancers,

I'd like to play a little Piobaireachd from "The Desperate Battle" for you on my Scottish Small Pipes ... and then share a little something about a little big project called World University and School I'm working on ...

I've been developing Creative Commons' licensed World University and School - 

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - which seeks to make university degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B.) available on the internet for free, accrediting on MIT OCW and Yale OYC in many large languages, for example, - since 2008, (in addition to having written a 400 page actual /virtual  ethnographic book manuscript about Harbin Hot Springs for which I'm continuing to look for an academic publisher). 

On World University and School's wiki side - which are editable web pages, we want to create a platform for open teaching and learning in all nearly 8000 languages, each a school.

For example, there's a Scottish Country Dance wiki subject / school -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing - for open teaching and learning, and there are also beginning wiki pages probably for every musical instrument we play here in the Open Band ... hop into a Google hangout to jam teach and learn (e.g. via the Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for all languages and all instruments) .

Startup World University and School is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare.

We want to accredit in California and begin to hire and grow. All this costs money. For example just the initial accreditation fee with the state of California's BPPE costs $5000 and WUAS has the green light that we can submit this. 

So I'm coming to ask you ... inspired by the TED Talk by Amanda Palmer on "The Art of Asking" (http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking) - if you could possibly please give or make 501 c 3 tax deductible donations to WUaS to help this worthy cause get off the ground and begin to grow. 

WUaS will help so many people, both in California as well as in the developing world.

And now I'd like to play the "Battle of Waterloo" to say thank you ...

Thank you,

Scott

http://scottmacleod.com/

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

-  Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
-  415 480 4577
-  http://worlduniversityandschool.org
-  World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.

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A video version of a musical outreach talk {for WUaS} which I gave yesterday evening to Scottish Country Dancers in Berkeley at St. Clement's Episcopal Church to follow. 

The text of the little talk itself is above. 

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Fisher: "Economics," "Chemistry," and "Physics," - and WUaS's Business Plan, and WUaS Monthly Board Meeting (2/14)

Dear Larry, Govind, and sporadic Universitians, 

I just called you, Larry, to see if we could make headway on filing the BPPE forms - and possibly before the WUaS Monthly Business (Board) Meeting (MBM) on Saturday February 14th. 

Here below is part of a conversation which Govind and I have had over the past week on the phone and in email (some of which I think you've read, Larry), concerning "Economics," "Chemistry," and "Physics," which as I see it now, are related-to-the-three-majors that you've initially worked out for BPPE, and which WUaS would likely also like to accredit upon:  

"Torrey pine: An ECONOMICS' instructional design video? for graduate student instructors from MIT, Yale or Stanford, for example, and with the Conference Method viz. Reed College ... Economics' courses from Yale OYC and MIT OCW, What instructional resources Reed students found helpful and added to WUaS at Paideia in PHYSICS and ORGANIC CHEMISTRY wiki subjects - Khan Academy Organic Chemistry and UC Boulder Quantum Physics' simulations, Playing instructionally is great here at WUaS ... and wiki-wise especially"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/torrey-pine-economics-instructional.html

These three majors ("Economics," "Chemistry," and "Physics"), as examples, each have both Yale OYC and MIT OCW courses in video, and they're mainstream academic disciplines which BPPE, and later WASC senior, might easily "accredit," for example. 

In addition, here's "WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci  - Updated" - 

"WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity"

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html - 

which I've added here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan - too. 

I'm curious to talk with you both about ways in which each of these 6 prongs will become revenue streams for WUaS, and how WUaS might organize around these, and all vis-a-vis C.C. WUaS in C.C. Wikidata / Wikibase ... 

Here too is the Bookstore / Computer Store - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_%26_Used)_at_WUaS.  

Check out the 2 related Wall Street Journal items (LinkedIn Reed College Alumni related - https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&item=5968008557642215425&type=member&gid=59769&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_weekly-group_discussions-2-grouppost-disc-0&midToken=AQHBPZDhU4RywA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3cd9vi0x8a-mA1 and WSJ - http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-makes-a-push-on-college-campuses-1422825521), which I added today. 

Hope to talk with you over this weekend, and also potentially at WUaS open monthly Board meeting on February 14th at 9 am PT. 

Sincerely, 

Scott

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010. 

World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you. 

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Chelan Mountains: Reed College and brain wave headsets, "Brain Wave: Psych majors dive into the mind-bending world of sensory substitution," Excited for all of this for brain research in a ... virtual Harbin / virtual earth ... and from our bathtubs, And especially for linguistic and brain research in all 7,870 languages ... with researchers and graduate students traveling all over the world to make the connections between what such developing brain hats/equipment and language use show

Reed College and brain wave headsets ...

Brain Wave: 

Psych majors dive into the mind-bending world of sensory substitution.

http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2014/articles/features/brainwave/brainwave.html
by Chris Lydgate '90

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excited for all of this for brain research in a ...

virtual Harbin / virtual earth ...

and from our bathtubs


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Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT OCW
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/


And at WUaS ...

Brain and Cognitive Sciences -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences

Brain Computer Interface -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface

Linguistics -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics

Research -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research


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... and especially for linguistic and brain research in all 7,870 languages ...  with researchers and graduate students (linguistics, neuroscientists, social scientists including sociologists, anthropologists and researchers from many more academic disciplines ... and across many, many languages), for example, traveling all over the world to make the connections between what such developing brain hats/equipment and language use show, for example ... and in context ... and as the computer applications for these, on smart phones and laptops and other computers, develop with greater and greater sophistication ...


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In what ways will researchers and informants be able to contribute to research via wikis and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy"?


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Click on the "brain" label in this blog and look through older posts for numerous entries on brain wave headsets. This Reed article is the first I think which describes developing an experiment - about sensory substitution - and where students showed something significant experimentally.

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