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1. World University and School
WUaS-1000 Proposed ISSIP Grand Challenge:
An Universal Translator,
beginning as a Guidebook with Test
http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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/drive
r_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

8. 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_num
ber_of_translations
• and a sample test
• would be another possible proof-point submission.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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/

16. Harvard’s virtual island
where WUaS began in 2008