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SHIGERU MIYAGAWA:
I'm Shigeru Miyagawa.

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I'm Professor of linguistics.

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And I also teach Japanese
history here at MIT.

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This is my 26th year.

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My linguistics
work is on syntax.

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More recently, I have been
looking at language evolution.

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In my history class, I look
at modern Japanese history,

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something I started
with John Dower.

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He's a very eminent
Pulitzer Prize winning

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historian of modern Japan.

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John and I have done this
incredible project Visualizing

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Cultures, which also
led to the MOOC,

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the edX MOOC like that
HarvardX and MITx did together

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Visualizing Japan.

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Three years ago, I split
my position between MIT

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and the University of Tokyo.

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And at the University
of Tokyo, I'm

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the Director of
Online Education.

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And there I look at MOOCs
and also OpenCourseWare.