Hi Alex, Don, John, Bob, and All, (again I don't have Stanford Emeritus CS Professor Don Knuth's email),
Thanks very much for your reply that:
"Scott,
My term as chair is up in a couple of weeks, so I'm not the right person to discuss this with. But, personally, I don't see a good possibility for interaction between Stanford CS and the World University and School --- realistically, the department just doesn't have the capacity to take on the collaboration you suggest.
Regards,
Alex"
I've blogged about some of this, and more here ...
I'd like to follow up with an email I began to you and Jennifer Widom many months ago, but didn't send at the time, and which you as active CS Professors at Stanford might have great knowledge about:
Dear Alex (and Jennifer),
In brief, I think developing a wiki CC MIT OpenCourseWare- (in its 5 languages+), and Yale OYC-centric, World University and School in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, each a major online university, as well as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages, with courses for university and high school degrees in ~200 countries' languages is the coding challenge ahead (and perhaps planning for all 7.5 billion learners / teachers in the world as universitians).
Dear Mark,
Very nice to talk with you recently at Stanford Law SVDX, Mark, and thank you for your personal "good job" congratulations and hand shake - much appreciated! I'm writing to follow up re what WUaS would greatly appreciate some guidance with and potentially in collaboration with Stanford Law SVDX.
Thank you,
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In brief, I think developing a wiki CC MIT OpenCourseWare- (in its 5 languages+), and Yale OYC-centric, World University and School in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, each a major online university, as well as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages, with courses for university and high school degrees in ~200 countries' languages is the coding challenge ahead (and perhaps planning for all 7.5 billion learners / teachers in the world as universitians).
CC OCW WUaS plans to interoperate soon with Wikidata / Wikibase which is Wikipedia's database for structured knowledge (and data for AI / machine learning / and machine translation) in its ~300 languages. And WUaS plans to matriculate our second undergraduate class online this autumn 2019 for free CC OpenCourseWare undergraduate degrees as we begin the accreditation process with the state of California's BPPE soon.
Part of this WUaS coding process would involve WUaS's plans to develop a WUaS universal translator in all 7,097 languages (per The Ethnologue - and conceptually building on Google Translate in its ~103 languages) - for an Academic Press at WUaS and with machine translation - and also to study all these languages, and the brain also via neuroscience, in a realistic virtual earth / universe at the cellular and atomic levels itself (think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain / TensorFlow / Translate / brain wave headsets, and with avatar bots of species and individuals and at the cellular and atomic levels) - and together.
Another part of this process is to develop a realistic virtual earth for STEM research and as a "classroom" - conceptually again like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with Time Slider with OpenSim/SL for group build-ability and avatars, and again in all 8k languages, and also at the cellular and atomic levels. For the cellular / molecular level and brain-research (potentially with brainwave headsets for studies, for example, from people's homes in all ~ 8k languages - per Glottolog), think Thomas Dean's Google Brain research (https://research.google.com/
Matriculating online students in all ~200 countries' main languages would be able to help code all of this with time (And I'm developing a new social science method - - that would facilitate this by individuals as well). And CC World University and School itself seeks to develop all of the above with time. (Also CC WUaS donated itself to CC Wikidata in October 2015, and received the WUaS Miiraheze MediaWiki in 2017 - e.g. https://wiki.
Differential equations, physics, chemistry, statistics, coding and all kinds of other neuroscience would come together in this modeling of the brain in a realistic virtual earth in the side bar of a Google Street View, as well. I also blog much about some of this e.g. here - http://scott-macleod.
How might we best communicate further about some of this?
While it may be possible to develop aspects of A) World University and School and B) the WUaS Press / Corp in collaboration with other Stanford departments or schools in Google Sites, and organized / structured around these 2 different legal entities (A & B), I don't think there are many schools or departments at Stanford or elsewhere which would have the knowledge, skills and creativity in computing, as well as the familiarity with the Google platform, to be able to do all of the above in one single realistic virtual earth for STEM research and in all ~200 countries and in all 7,097 living languages, especially since quantum computing may be needed to scale this.
I think I'm writing to learn further from you your ideas about ways to proceed with coding World University and School. WUaS again seeks to hire enormous numbers of Stanford graduate students planning to become online faculty members potentially in all 7097 living languages, and is seeking to emerge out of or in collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Stanford Law for these online degrees in ~200 countries' official / main languages as well. And WUaS in both of its wings seeks to become a major employer worldwide, potentially hiring as many as 2.2 million people (the size of one of the largest companies in the world) - much potentially out of Stanford. How would you suggest best proceeding with these development questions? Alex?, Don?, John?, Bob? Others?
Thank you again so much for your email, Alex.
Sincerely,
Scott
And here's an email I sent to Mark Lonergan, who is chair of the Board of Stanford Law's Silicon Valley Directors' Exchange I think, many months ago, Alex and Jennifer, which I was going to include in my email to you, which gives you some idea of the WUaS Corporation side of WUaS, (which incorporating process as a general stock company emerged from a Stanford Law CodeX meeting, thanks in part to Stanford Law Prof Roland Vogl).
Dear Mark,
Very nice to talk with you recently at Stanford Law SVDX, Mark, and thank you for your personal "good job" congratulations and hand shake - much appreciated! I'm writing to follow up re what WUaS would greatly appreciate some guidance with and potentially in collaboration with Stanford Law SVDX.
While I think you may have seen World University and School's 14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams - http://
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In broad strokes,
CC OCW WUaS plans to emerge soon IT-wise out of CC Wikidata / Wikibase which is Wikipedia's database for structured knowledge (and data for AI / machine learning / and machine translation) in its 300 languages - and potentially on both WUaS's 1) non-profit CC-4 MIT OCW-centric side, as well as on WUaS's 2) CC-0 + for-profit general stock side (engaging CC-0 Wikisource for WUaS's online bookstore planned in all 8k languages, where Creative Commons' licensed CC-4 is noncommercial and CC-0 is commercial). And WUaS plans to matriculate our second prospective undergraduate students online this autumn 2019 for a free CC OpenCourseWare undergraduate degree (MIT OCW-centric).
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On the business side, WUaS will likely/possibly emerge out of Intuit / Quickbooks / TurboTax with their experience in multiple languages / tax systems - and possibly out of their hand coded Multi-store too. With online law schools in all ~200 countries' main languages - and law and CS students - WUaS will potentially be able to help organize bitcoin and the blockchain.
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There's an employment opportunity for prospective SVDX board members in all 200 countries' main languages here - per your informative paper on average Board member compensation ($289,000?) for the SV 150 top companies - if WUaS can get going financially. (Yours was the first SVDX talk I attended - thank you!)
If Stanford Law's SVDX were to orchestrate all of this - with the enormous great business knowledge and experience that all of you have together - SVDX would potentially benefit tremendously as well. And if SVDX were orchestrating all of this, perhaps CalSTRS (Aeisha Matagni was a great recent panelist) would be interested in WUaS as a startup investment on WUaS's online for-profit side (in all 7,097 living languages). Doing so would not only benefit Stanford Law SVDX in so many ways, it would also be a real feather - success story - in SVDX's cap.
With Stanford Law's SVDX as an orchestrator, and your guidance especially, could WUaS explore seeking CC OpenCourseWare re Stanford Law and Medicine (since MIT doesn't have a law or med school and hence there's no MIT OpenCourseWare? WUaS will seek reimbursement along the lines of the upcoming Yale tuition of $51,400 per student per year (since Yale OYC is Creative Commons' licensed too) from each of all ~200 countries (again per student per year), probably based on GDP - and seeks to help the most disadvantaged countries - and with an online teaching hospital (with many implications for WUaS's for profit side and technological innovation here) too.
(Would it be possible too, please, to reach out to SVDX diverse Board members, and possibly Gordon Yamate, and their networks, for example, to become heads/CEOs of their WUaS universities/companies in their main languages?)
How might we best communicate further about some of this?
Scott
- https://wiki.
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/
(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/
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Attended the first EVER virtual ScratchEd (drag and drop programming language) MeetUp (Harvard GSE) directly after WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/red-bellied-short-necked-turtle-agenda.html - (open and electronically-mediated)
Mark your calendars for our very first virtual #ScratchEdMeetup on Saturday at 1pm EST! RSVP: http://bit.ly/2SqnJcs #CreativeComputingChat
Mark your calendars for our very first virtual #ScratchEdMeetup on Saturday at 1pm EST! RSVP: https://t.co/1hQlNF8suQ#CreativeComputingChatpic.twitter.com/X4em8HcaXW— ScratchEd Team (@ScratchEdTeam) December 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/ScratchEdTeam/status/1069758296846991360
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Here's my email to its main organizer:
Hi Alexa,
Thanks so much to you, Alexa, Laura P and your whole team for a great first virtual ScratchEd MeetUp - it was fun and dynamic. To my questions below, Laura P wrote:
“Scott, I believe you have Alexa's email address, shoot her an email and we'll coordinate!”
Laura P - could we create an UnHangout next week here with these people and out of this UnHangout possibly please? ... and with Lego WeDo 2 / Scratch explorations, possibly as breakout session?
How to realize an online weekly play group / sandbox for Lego robotics and Scratch explorations in a 10 person hangout? :)
How can we connect with our breakout groups later?
Pau - would / might you have any interest in facilitating a WeDo2 / Scratch hangout HERE next Saturday, same time, same place?
Next Saturday, Alexa and Pau - same time same 'place' - c'est possible from an UnHangout perspective?
Play group weekly too ? :) Thank you Pau and SeanJustice and All
Am curious too how best to move Scratch with Lego WeDo2 robotics into a developing realistic virtual earth, perhaps building from Sara Falcone's space robot and lattice examples into a Google Street View with time slider realistic virtual earth, from this MIT Robotic Systems' for Blockchain daylong conference from last Wednesday, with Sara Falcone's time of presentation accessible (plus much more) in this recent blog post - https://scott-macleod.
Thank you!!!
3 Cheers, Scott
Am curious how best to move Scratch with Lego WeDo2 robotics into developing #RealisticVirtualEarth, perhaps building from Sara Falcone's space robot and lattice exs into a Google Street View w/ time slider, from MIT Robotic Systems' for Blockchain conf https://t.co/XwpWe7HDXe ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 8, 2018
"Am curious how best to move Scratch with Lego WeDo2 robotics into developing #RealisticVirtualEarth, perhaps building from Sara Falcone's space robot and lattice exs into a Google Street View w/ time slider, from MIT Robotic Systems' for Blockchain conf https://scott-macleod.
- https://wiki.
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School
- 415 480 4577
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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