Joseph E. Aoun
Joseph Aoun (born March 26, 1953) 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. Aoun's 2018 salary was $1,457,417, with an additional $ 299,063 per year in other compensation. :) Born in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, he is married to Zeina and has two sons, Adrian and Joseph Karim. Robot-Proof. "Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" was published and released in 2017 by MIT Press. The book appeared over a year after Aoun wrote a commentary for the "Chronicle of Higher Education" 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. 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."