Back in May, Donald Trump announced the establishment of Trump University as “a new business education company focused on providing lifelong learning programs for business professionals.”

Trump University will offer a rich mix of products and services, including online e-learning courses, multimedia home study programs, and a series of publications.
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Most importantly, Trump University will deliver the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of Donald Trump himself. The real-estate mogul’s personal teachings, experiences and philosophies will be fully integrated into the curriculum. He will be featured in online video, the Trump University website, multimedia learning programs, and much more.

If that were not amazing enough, TU’s Chief Learning Officer (Provost?) is Roger Shank, the famous and sometimes controversial AI scientist.

Roger Schank, professor emeritus and founder of the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and one of the world’s top researchers of artificial intelligence, learning theory and cognitive science, has been appointed Chief Learning Officer.

As CLO, Schank will oversee the design and implementation of the e-learning curriculum. Schank, who has also taught at Yale University among other top institutions and is author of some 25 books, is a pioneer and innovator in applying the Learning by Doing philosophy to online education. “People know that they learn by doing precisely because they know that they can learn nothing of value without constant practice” said Schank.

I wonder how one would represent “You’re fired!” using Shank’s conceptual dependency formalism.? I think it would involve an MTRANS of an EXPEL of an ATRANS of … The rest is left an an exercise for the reader.

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