Chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica): Schoolab SF meeting and re QI Ethics (re A.I. Ethics, and machine learning ethics too) * * Lego at the molecular level and into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects) * * * hacking of http://worlduniversityandschool.org - how to make more secure? * * * Courses for our first undergraduate class, and email to edX President and MIT Professor of EECS Anant, Agarwal ... re The_College_at_World_University_and

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Soren,

Great to meet you yesterday evening!

Here's the IBM CSIG talk I mentioned re AI ethics:

"Z-inspection: Toward a Process to Assess Ethical AI" -

https://youtu.be/jrwuZvt_H7k

31 October 2019 11:30am US Eastern

Roberto Zicari

Ethical AI Due Diligence

Goethe University Frankfurt

Slides

Recording

- http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/

in this blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html ...

And here are some thoughts about this, and in some ways with regards how the market could play a role (vis-a-vis the neutral Consumers Union "Consumer Reports" magazine, as idea and example) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html (but in many other ways too) - and perhaps from an American perspective (and some further thoughts from a Harvard Law BKC panel with the President of Germany - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/northern-gannett-virtual-college-stem.html).

And this just came into my email box from Harvard Law BKC too - https://mailchi.mp/cyber/the-buzz-504729?e=d21d1ecc31 - relatedly -

Public opinion lessons for AI regulation
Baobao ZhangTuesday, December 10, 2019
https://www.brookings.edu/research/public-opinion-lessons-for-ai-regulation/ .

Looking forward to meeting you again at some point.

All the best, Scott

P.S.

And here's the "Human Rights'" wiki subject at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Human_Rights -with some MIT OCW courses, which will eventually be for credit, and in many languages, per your Stanford HANDA human rights' focus - (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) - and to give you an idea of how WUaS will work in many countries' official languages, and for credit.

- https://cphfintechweek.com/speaker/soren-juul-jorgensen/

- https://www.usadk.org/news/meet-soren-juul-jorgensen-new-executive-director-innovation-center-denmark/

- https://humanrights.stanford.edu/people/s-ren-j-rgensen

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- 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.

Kea: "Z-inspection: Toward a Process to Assess Ethical AI" - Much of following communication relates to ethics' thinking in conversation with Prof. Roberto Zicari's IBM CSIG talk * * * Where are Object Database Systems going? - Google Poly ?, Heart device monitors, Self-driving automobiles, Adult robots? Ethical AI * * * Consumer Reports' approach to AI ethics, if you will, and in lieu of 'inspections.' * * * Quaker SPICES - Simplicity - Understandable and Explainable AI, Peace - non-harming (1:55 minute), Integrity - Trust, Community - Citizens, Equality - minimize the risk of bias, Stewardship - businesses and citizens - as an ethic to mediate ETHICAL AI as process

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html -

Northern Gannett: VIRTUAL college STEM laboratories in #GooglePoly wi #MachineLearning to prepare WUaS BACHELOR students for PHYSICAL Ph.D. chemistry laboratories * * * Create 'lovely and lyrical' ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as a new form of 'writing' even :) . . . I don't think such a lovely and lyrical book has been written about St. Kilda, Scotland (re my Univ of Edinburgh Master's thesis on virtual senses of place) . . . Ethics' questions seem 'operative' here - I hope in my whistle-blowing that California law will be observed with regard too to the sex trade re these questions (re Stanford too?) * * * NO World Univ & Sch Monday TALK Q & A News TODAY 1/11/19 10am PT due to WIFI issues * * * Annual Meeting for World University and School meets this Saturday at 9am PT, electronically-mediated, at open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting * * * No Open Band at St. Clement's in Berkeley, playing for Scottish Country Dancers, this evening due to Veterans' Day. And is anyone heading to hear Northumbrian piper Dick Hensold and Irish guitar-player Patsy O'Brien this Thursday * * * Hoping wiki WUaS will turn the education electricity on - and in all ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages online with MIT OpenCourseWare-centric degrees and wiki schools for open rocking teaching and learning - for FREE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/northern-gannett-virtual-college-stem.html -

Soren,

Since you're the former general consul of Denmark, these Tweets may also interest you:

Lego at the molecular level and into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects) -

Lego at molecular level - and into Google Poly too re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital ? https://scientificamerican.com/article/molecular-lego-2007-09/ re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rainbows-in-culture-freud-and-lacan.html #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?

Lego at molecular level? https://t.co/x7bspDkdvR re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://t.co/ddKCeC9ota #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) October 27, 2019

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1188558138816942082?s=20

*
Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1129348406760099846& https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1204400600185786368?s=20 How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?

Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/ie4GYdVZJg& https://t.co/9RXQDAzS7D How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) December 12, 2019

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1205237936725213185?s=20
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1205260857183285254?s=20
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1205237728251498496?s=20
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1205261622047981570?s=20
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205261932929748992?s=20
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1205262659785912320?s=20

Great to meet you at Schoolab SF, Soren!

Best, Scott

* * *

Friday, December 13, 2019

Dear Larry and Peter, (and Jim, Takeshi, and Tarun), Dave and Bob (Greetings!),

Am not clear how MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch will develop IT-wise still.

Brainstorming: Bob Nix who is CTO of Ria Health - https://riahealth.com/team - (where his brother is CEO) - with regards to Dave Deacon who is COO of Ria Health, and a Scottish Country dancing friend, comes to mind re WUaS IT development. Dave is a Scottish Country dancer on Monday evenings in Berkeley who went to MIT as an undergrad too, Larry and Jim (in physics and EE), AND went to Stanford for a PhD in physics in the 1970s, and Bob, whom I haven't met, went to Yale in CS as undergraduate or for Ph.D. Dave came up to me last Monday after Scottish Country Dancing, near my keyboard, to talk a bit about World Univ & Sch and WUaS's heading to the Grand Opening of Schoolab SF, the French educational Incubator, or innovation studio, after I had gone up to Dave 3 times over 3 weeks after SCD to talk about WUaS and Ria. (I subsewquently invited both Dave Deacon and Bob Nix to the Schoolab SF Grand Opening, but they didn't attend. I think that, having gone to MIT, Stanford and Yale, they would also, hypothetically, eventually attract great computer scientists who know machine learning, for example, to help develop WUaS IT-wise with time.

So, combine Ria Health's approach to tele-medicine and alcoholism with WUaS's planned online medical schools and online teaching hospitals in ~200 countries' official languages - and possibly even re Stanford / Duke's Alphabet/Google's Project Baseline, and also Project ECHO? You'll find some of my correspondence and brainstorming with Dave re Ria and WUaS here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/tunicate-sea-squirts-tele-medicine.html - including :

"Brainstorming-wise, and with regards to successful interventions for your addiction and alcoholism patients, I wonder if you/RIA might be able to network with Project Baseline, and use getting your patients into a Project Baseline clinic IDEA, or similar, (your own clinics? ) to give their physical samples of blood, sweat, tears, saliva, stool, etc., and do a cardio exam in a clinic (or eventually even from home), where Project Baseline would then turn these physical samples into data ... to chart a path way to health for them. This is the idea behind Project Baseline as I understand it but best to 'brush up' on your Project Baseline knowledge for yourself, from Youtubes or similar) ...

So if your patients could be 'incentivized' to change their drinking habits and by getting on a cardio machine (and to exercise) initially, in the name of contributing to science and a study, and get into the clinic too, they might be incentivized to change their alcoholic behavior - a kind of educational approach too - and then you might be able to show further results, and thereby help you get RIA into the value chain (ie financial reimbursement loops). Your Stanford and MIT links might help you find your way into openings in Project Baseline study, created by Alphabet / Google / Verily / Stanford / Duke University 10,000 person project / study (and Project Baseline may already be showing results among alcoholics - re data to show Anthem etc.).

More about Project Baseline and Project ECHO here from 2017 -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/12/chiricahua-national-monument-projects.html (and sprinkled throughout my active blog as well)."

So I can seek to talk with Dave again this upcoming Monday, but WUaS is still seeking a startup CTO, and Bob Nix may well be busy with Ria Health, as its CTO. But WUaS is still seeking a lead I.T. developer. (Takeshi, would be interested in talking about this?)

Developing World University and School IT-wise is an amazingly creative CS opportunity, and beginning with our home page, and especially with regard to making it secure re this email thread: "hacking of http://worlduniversityandschool.org - how to make more secure?"

Sincerely, Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

*

Hi Scott,
Thanks for update.

Mozilla's Common Voice projectis making good progress - and hopefully will help with speech technology for 1000 top languages of the world in coming years.

WUaS should be able to have a good technology foundation by around 2025 - which is my estimate of when there will be open source AI for 1000 top languages. So hang in there!!!

Best wishes for the holidays and and a happy new year 2020!

Thanks, -Jim

Jim Spohrer, PhD
Director, Cognitive Opentech Group (COG)
IBM Research - Almaden, 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120(o) 408-927-1928<spohrer@us.ibm.com>
(m) 408-829-3112<spohrer@gmail.com>
Innovation Champion: http://service-science.info/archives/2233

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Scott MacLeod
11:34 AM (4 hours ago)
to Jim

Thanks, Jim,

Am hanging in there ... but occasionally am frustrated by lack of developments, growth, IT coding, monies for licensing, students, hiring of faculty, etc ...

Seeking to get World Univ & Sch growing, and just about to publish my 4th book "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually ... " in the Academic Press at World University and School, and with regards too to:

WUaS Universal Translator https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator seeks to be in Glottolog's 8,506 entries in languages https://glottolog.org/glottolog/language & Ethnologue's 7,111 known living languages https://ethnologue.com https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages >Academic
@WUaSPress ~

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1205542500720447488?s=20

With best regards, and Season's Greetings,
Scott
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Lego at the molecular level and into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects) -

Lego at molecular level - and into Google Poly too re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital ? https://scientificamerican.com/article/molecular-lego-2007-09/ re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rainbows-in-culture-freud-and-lacan.html #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1188558138816942082?s=20

Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1129348406760099846 & https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1204400600185786368?s=20 How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1205237936725213185?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1205260857183285254?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1205237728251498496?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1205261622047981570?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205261932929748992?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1205262659785912320?s=20

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Jim Spohrer
Attachments
12:26 PM (3 hours ago)
to me

Your digital workers are coming to help you in the years ahead!!!

(with two charts)

*
Thank you for your encouragement, Jim,

And wow, a digital worker could be a billion times cheaper in 60 years - is I think what chart 1 suggests!

And perhaps World Univ & Sch can seek to add consciousness to the AI leaderboards in some years re 'awareness,''sentience,' feeling,''perception' (and a main focus of one of the concluding poems in my upcoming book, with regards to western Philosophy of Mind conceptions of consciousness!), and per chart 2.

Thank you! - Scott

* * *

Hi Tanya, (Anant and Larry - greetings, Anant!)

Thanks for your email and with regards to your "If we are in need of me finishing for accreditation I need Finance Theory and Introduction To Lean Six Sigma" at MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, for a free-to-students' online Bachelor's degree as an undergraduate Business major per our Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ .

Anant, Tanya, is in World Univ & Sch's very first matriculating undergraduate class (albeit not yet licensing, or accrediting), and she is seeking to finish 2 courses for her degree. The MIT OCW for one of these courses didn't work out for her. So I'm including you in this email, as WUaS seeks to begin first licensing with the state of California's BPPE (and then potentially to accredit with WASC senior). How might WUaS and edX explore collaboration?

Tanya: I just found on this MIT OCW into MITx page - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - the following

"15.415.1x Foundations of Modern Finance I"
https://www.edx.org/course/foundations-of-modern-finance-i ...

Then, not finding any MIT OCW / MITx Intro to Lean Six Sigma COURSES, I found in edX this:

"Six Sigma and Lean: Quantitative Tools for Quality and Productivity"
https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/tumx-six-sigma-and-lean

Am not sure about what you might need to know beforehand (15.415 says it's advanced, and Six Sigma doesn't list any pre-reqs, but the course lasts for 6 months)

Then I found in MIT OCW:

Finance Theory I
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/

Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-660j-introduction-to-lean-six-sigma-methods-january-iap-2012/

So, let me communicate with Larry, and look into

A) collaborating with edX for MIT OCW > MITx ... and with regards, too, to

B i) WUaS licensing with CA's BPPE, then
B ii) accreditation (with WASC senior?) ...

C) finding some further possible edX MIT OCW courses relating to the 2 courses for you to graduate with, possibly after WUaS begins accreditation ... (which would increase the value of your Bachelor's degree significantly).

It could be the autumn when you begin classes again, re the above ... or you might be able (and WUaS is still seeking the initial ~5,000 dollars to begin licensing, as well as annual licensing and accreditation fees after this).

Please let me/us know what you think about these possibilities, Tanya, and how you might like to proceed (in conversation, if that's helpful).

(Anant, how might we best communicate about some of this as well? WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class in English in the autumn of 2020, and for students from all ~200 countries, for a 4 year degree - and hopefully with very high retention rates. WUaS is seeking 500-2000 students, as WUaS begins the licensing and accreditation process from California. In what ways could WUaS collaborate with edX in these regards as well. Larry Viehland, above, is the chair of the WUaS Board, and MIT alumnus too!).

Thank you! And looking forward to communicating further about all of this.

Best, Scott
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University