SHIGERU MIYAGAWA: I'm Shigeru Miyagawa.
I'm Professor of linguistics.
And I also teach Japanese history here at MIT.
This is my 26th year.
My linguistics work is on syntax.
More recently, I have been looking at language evolution.
In my history class, I look at modern Japanese history,
something I started with John Dower.
He's a very eminent Pulitzer Prize winning
historian of modern Japan.
John and I have done this incredible project Visualizing
Cultures, which also led to the MOOC,
the edX MOOC like that HarvardX and MITx did together
Visualizing Japan.
Three years ago, I split my position between MIT
and the University of Tokyo.
And at the University of Tokyo, I'm
the Director of Online Education.
And there I look at MOOCs and also OpenCourseWare.