The Aevia Group and Ascension University are organizing Curricular Focus Teams in an ongoing effort to insure the essential curriculum is always given the proper attention in course development. The Master Experience Key (MEK), is one such curriculum management component and the team will operate as part of the Aevia Institutes of Management.
The philosophical and spiritual overtones focus specifically on the meaning and value of Forgiving Tolerance as characterized by Balanced Perspective. Resourceful Accuracy, and Resilient Structuring.
The managerial and scientific focus is concentrated on facts concerning the arts and sciences of human endeavor with special emphasis on the building of indexes, cross references and thesauruses.
In November of 2008, the Lead Trustee for the soon to be established Aevia Charitable Trust (The ACT), gave a talk describing how the question of net-neutrality will be pivotal to future societal evolution. The talk included the following statement:
“Suppose someone posted an article on the Life of Jesus. The relevance rankings would determine your ability to find it using a search service. These rankings are conditioned by the search algorithms, some group’s doctrine concerning reliable sources and of course the quality of the subject article. If, for example, George Costanza is the relevance guy at VeryBigSearchEngine.com, a search on major celebrations during December would likely place Festivus at the top of the results page and Christmas might not place at all. This could be simply because the editor placed the birth of Jesus in August and ignored the tradition of celebrating in December. The essay titled Birth of Jesus may not even be indexed depending on the attitude towards religion or the editorial policies of the search service provider.
When we move beyond individual or institutional attitudes, beyond vestings and bias factors, we also encounter maintenance issues. A large thesaurus contains tens of thousands of synonyms and hundreds of thousands of cross references. It is just one part of the server-side system that produces search results based on input. On the client-side we have the person authoring, packaging and submitting the article. While the content of the article itself should be the primary relevance factor; naming, tagging and formatting also affect placement in search results to varying degrees.”
You can listen to or download the full audio of this keynote address here: