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Joseph E. Aoun
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Joseph Elie Aoun
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7th President of
Northeastern University
In office
2006 – present
Preceded by Richard M. Freeland
Personal details
Born March 26, 1953
Beirut, Lebanon
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Paris VIII
Université Saint-Joseph
Website president.northeastern.edu
Joseph Elie Aoun (Arabic: جوزيف عون) (born March 26, 1953 in Beirut, Lebanon)[1] is the seventh president of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he took office on August 15, 2006. Previously, Aoun was dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He joined USC in 1982 in the Department of Linguistics, and during his time at USC served as head of the academic Senate.
As a theoretical syntactician, he is known for his work on logical form and wh-movement.
Aoun's 2018 salary was $1,457,417, with an additional $299,063 per year in other compensation.[2]
He is married to Zeina and has two sons, Adrian and Joseph Karim.[3]
Contents
1 Education
2 Robot-Proof
3 Honors
4 Awards
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Education
PhD: Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
Diploma of Advanced Studies: General and Theoretical Linguistics, University of Paris VIII, 1977
Masters: Oriental Languages and Literature, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon, 1975
Robot-Proof
Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence was published and released in 2017 by MIT Press.[4] The book appeared over a year after Aoun wrote a commentary for the Chronicle of Higher Education[5] that shares the first part of the book's title.
In Robot-Proof, Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot.[6]
A "robot-proof" education, Aoun argues, is not concerned solely with memorizing facts. Rather, it fosters a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or create something valuable to society—a scientific proof, a hip-hop recording, a web comic, a cure for cancer. In his book, Aoun lays out the framework for a new discipline, humanics, which builds on our innate strengths and prepares students to compete in a labor market in which smart machines work alongside human professionals.
He argues for the need for better and continuous education to keep up with changing technology, saying, "Beyond simply conferring degrees, the foundational purpose of colleges and universities must be to educate — and that means equipping people of all ages, at all stages of their careers, to build successful and fulfilling lives."[7]
Honors
Chevalier de La Légion d’honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor): French Government, 2018[8]
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013
Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, 2011
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010[1]
Doctor of Humane Letters: Anatolia College, 2009
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa: Hebrew Union College, 2007
Chevalier de L'ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight of the Order of the Academic Palms): French Government, 2006
Endowed Chair, Anna H. Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Awards
MIT Robert A. Muh Alumni Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2011
USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 1997
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for The Syntax of Scope (with A. Li), 1993
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for A Grammar of Anaphora, 1988
See also
Generative linguistics
Noam Chomsky
David Pesetsky
Hagit Borer
Richard Kayne
Howard Lasnik |