World University and SchoolWUaS-1000 Proposed ISSIP Grand Challenge:

An Universal Translator,

beginning as a Guidebook with Test http://worlduniversityandschool.org

WUaS Overview

• World University and School is like Wikipedia

with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare

• Planned for 7,870+ languages and 242+ countries

• with online university degrees in large languages

and most countries

• Accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and

CC Yale OYC

WUaS Background

• Scott MacLeod, founder & president

• http://scottmacleod.com

• WUaS began in 2008 in a course I was teaching as

conversation on “Society and Information

Technology” on Harvard’s virtual island in

cyberspace

• worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

WUaS-1000 Challenge:

• A first lesson in over 1000 languages:

• There are an estimated 7,870+ languages in

the world

• Over 1000 of these language have written

forms and literate populations of over a

100,000

WUaS Offering $ Award, amount to be specified

• Proposed grand challenge that we are seeking

feedback on

• WUaS (World University and School -

http://worlduniversityandschool.org ) is offering a $

financial award, amount to be specified, to the first

faculty member that creates a reasonably complex

learning module and test in over 1,329 languages

This first "WUaS-ready" course

• composed of a standardized guidebook and test, in over 1,329 languages,

• will be a proof-point that can help drive the development of cognitive computing componentry in

• machine translation

• machine learning

• natural language processing

• knowledge representation, and other areas needed to develop cognitive assistants for all occupations in all languages.

California State Driver's Handbook

as example• For example, the California State Driver's Handbook

• https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/driver_handbook_toc

• and a sample test

• would be a possible proof-point submission,

• if the faculty negotiated any needed content rights with the State of California for Research and Education purposes and created and demonstrated vetting of the 1,329 translations

New Testament / Bible

• For example, the New Testament / Bible, too,

• which has been translated into about 1,337 languages, per

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_works_by_number_of_translations

• and a sample test

• would be another possible proof-point submission.

WUaS is offering a $ award, amount to be specified

• to the first faculty member that submits a

• rigorous and operational grand challenge description based on the WUaS-1000 challenge,

• that advances the goal of WUaS in an outstandingly creative and operationally easy to test manner that still

• (1) helps learners in over a thousand languages learn material and pass a test, and

• (2) helps advance the state-of-the-art in machine translations systems

Faculty must be at an accredited

university to receive any awards • To receive any awards the faculty must be at an accredited university,

where the university has an established track record of receiving industry and non-profit foundation awards.

• To verify the eligibility of your university, please send the university name to: <email address>.

• Industry groups and other groups are allowed to work with faculty to help the faculty and the faculty's students submit a winning submission.

• WUaS will also work to get the achievement recognized in the Guinness Book of world records, but there is no guarantee of success on this item.

WUaS is like Wikipedia

• Editable by you

• Creative Commons’ licensed

• Extensible inter-lingual wiki information technologies

• Plans to build in CC Wikidata database, developed

for Wikipedia’s 288 languages

• WUaS’s main Subjects’ page, in English – e.g.

• http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

with best STEM-centric OCW

• Such as MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages

• MIT OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/

• MIT OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

• Yale OYC: http://oyc.yale.edu/

• upon which WUaS plans to accredit for CC degrees

• WUaS’s main wiki Courses’ page, in English -

• http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

• Creative Commons’ licensed

Example of WUaS lecture for Degree Side

• Here's an example of the lectures students will be engaging on WUaS’s degrees’ side (for Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, M.D. and I.B. in large languages)

• MIT Professor Anant Agarwal (CEO and President of edX)

• lec 1 | mit 6.002 circuits and electronics, spring 2007

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQxyVuLeCs• (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/video-lectures/lecture-1/)

• With class sections in G+ group video Hangouts and MIT UnHangouts, interactively

For Open Teaching and Learning …

• Anyone can begin a new Subject at WUaS:

• explore how to start a new WUaS wiki subject

page as a creative teaching opportunity with

• WUaS’s Key SUBJECT TEMPLATE page -

• http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJEC

T_TEMPLATE

Proposed ISSIP WUaS-1000 Grand Challenge

• For this proposed ISSIP grand challenge that we are

seeking feedback on, please contact: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

• Scott MacLeod - http://scottmacleod.com

• WUaS is a new community of interest - it’s like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric

OCW - focusing on innovative service economic models, measures and impacts

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

ISSIP Presentation

http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/

Harvard’s virtual island where WUaS began in 2008