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Joseph Aoun
7th President of
Northeastern University
In office
2006–present
Preceded byRichard M. Freeland
Personal details
Born (1953-03-26) March 26, 1953 (age 71)
Beirut, Lebanon
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Paris VIII
Université Saint-Joseph
Websitepresident.northeastern.edu

Joseph Aoun (born March 26, 1953)[1] is a Lebanese-born American linguist and the seventh president of Northeastern University in Boston, 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.

Born in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, he is married to Zeina and has two sons, Adrian and Joseph Karim.[2]

Education

Robot-Proof

Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence was published and released in 2017 by MIT Press.[3] The book appeared over a year after Aoun wrote a commentary for the Chronicle of Higher Education[4] 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.[5]

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."[6]

Honors

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

References

  1. ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  2. ^ Pamela J. Johnson (22 June 2006). "Trojans Bid Farewell to Joseph Aoun". USC. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". Barnes and Noble.
  4. ^ Aoun, Joseph. "Robot-Proof: How Colleges Can Keep People Relevant in the Workplace". Chronicle. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  5. ^ Aoun, Joseph. "Robot-Proof". Robot-Proof. MIT Press. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Robot Proof, Sept 12 2017". c-span.org. C-SPAN. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun receives France's highest honor". News @ Northeastern. 28 September 2018.
Academic offices
Preceded by 7th President of Northeastern University
2006-present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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