Jewel Crypto Browser

Cultural heritages are to be protected, when a language dies, the culture dies with it. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct, according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. High internet costs, lack of access for disadvantaged communities contributes to the critical digital divide. 

Jewel Crypto Browser is the world’s first Semantic-AI powered solution using technology creating a dynamic Digital Universe that unifies the web, desktop, IoT, world data, languages, crypto currencies, expanding global inclusivity within the digital Marketplace. 

Jewel is a patented solution for the Digital Inclusion problem. Jewel combines algorithms to enhance content, creating a better output quality than the input, even at low connection speeds. Jewel encourages creators to unify solutions by enabling software 'behavior' as a tradeable good, created from natural language not code, being culturally more accurate in translation giving inclusivity capabilities to solve problems empowering disadvantaged communities globally.

Jewel addresses four interrelated problems:

1. Unsupported Languages - Modern web browsers support less than 200 of the over 3000 written languages, and there are over 3000 unsupported spoken languages. Jewel will support every written language and provide tools to support creating written versions of the rest.
2. Poor translation services - Google Translate supports around 100 languages. Jewel can support culturally accurate translation of every language.
3. Barriers to Solving Problems and Economic Inclusion - Creatives around the world are constrained by complexity, and opaqueness in computing. Jewel allows everyone to easily create NFTs with embedded data & trusted-behaviors, made from ordinary language. Jewel uses a new quantum-ready ledger that solves trust, security, and privacy problems in software, including AI, by delivering a new transparency and explainability model baked into its core.
4. High Resolution Content Requiring High-speed Connections - Without high-speed connections to the internet, communities around the world are left out of the digital revolution. Worldwide data is expected to hit 175 zettabytes (10,000 Terabytes per ZB) in 2025, at an enormous 65% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). Jewel uses a new approach to reduce the amount of data required to deliver high resolution content, and experiences on low-speed connections.

Jewel uses patented technology to instantly transform all signal data (text, images, video, web pages, sensors, and more) into 4 dimensional (3D plus changes over time) math equations. Signals become easily translatable (e.g. language to language, code to code), simple to transform (e.g. for higher quality than the original, etc.), and modifiable (e.g. using natural language to create, understand, tweak, and edit machine behaviors). 

With our dynamic new unifying approach to signal processing, Jewel will provide access to big data (e.g. medical imaging, geospatial data, AI/ML data models, and all other data types) with unprecedented efficiency, and level-of-detail control, which is a way to provide higher precision and efficiency at lower energy consumption, bandwidth, and compute resources.

We have created a Semantic Periodic Chart for Computing that maps human expressed meanings (e.g. speak, type, drag-n-drop) into semantic units (representing any machine behavior), and generated machine-level instructions that are auto-tuning, auto-scaling, and auto-syncing. 

Jewel does all of the above, primarily in real-time.

We have combined our Jewel technology with the open source Webkit web browser engine. The result is the ability to leverage web kit in a unique way to offer new capabilities that do not exist in any other browser.

Jewel and our global teams are targeting the digital divide for empowering  disadvantaged populations around the world, in urban, suburban, rural areas and inner-city communities.

Jewel will provide digital inclusion solutions for underserved populations around the world, including immigrants in countries that speak unsupported languages, especially with potentially life threatening consequences, such as many of us have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Services like Google Translate support only 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages-spoken by people just as vulnerable to the crisis? Jewel utilizes technologies that can accelerate support closer to 7000 languages, thereby making the vision of universal communication achievable.

Global Outreach

The internet is largely in English. During a global pandemic, it is essential to be able to translate public service announcements into as many languages as possible, in ways that are contextually accurate and culturally appropriate. The limited ability to support languages in computing is a clear and apparent impediment to digital inclusion for literally billions of people. Jewel will help save lives by enabling communities to effectively communicate with everyone, especially the most vulnerable populations, which is disproportionately the elderly, women, children, immigrants, and people of color.

The Jewel team includes Fiona Banister, Co-Founder, United Nations NGO, https://decarbonized.org has formed an alliance with global groups like: www.partnershipsforchange.org, www.gaiaamazonas.org, and www.fas-amazonas.org. Decarbonized.org is prepared to collaborate with us on improving digital inclusion for communities in the Amazon, 9 countries in Latin America, and to connect us with other non-profit organizations in Asia and Africa.

Fiona Banister (Microfinance Investor, Educator) and her partner in Ecuador, Nantar Inga (Indigenous, Environmental Biologist) feel that Jewel will help urgently to support their outreach projects and can be essential for other vital groups like the www.UN.org who all need better language support for 109+ languages. There are numerous other Global NGO, companies, and community organizations working hard to help sustain languages and protect cultures that are endangered and Jewel can be the core solution for resource support. Jewel will provide these much needed capabilities to advance the global missions, connect people, and purpose to help curate essential systems supporting inclusivity and connectivity.

We have obtained confirmation from organizations such as WikiTongues and staff at the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council that Jewel would be a major benefit to their efforts to rescue indigenous languages, and to support disadvantaged communities in connecting and being included in vital global alliances. WikiTongues would like to include Jewel in "The Language Sustainability Toolkit" that they offer communities seeking to rescue endangered languages.

National, Local, and Tribal Challenges

The challenge of Digital Inclusion is not just a problem that is unique to developing countries or indigenous people. The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition has learned how to collectively strategize on how to bring technology to underserved communities, prepare and facilitate workshops, and also teach communities how to use the city’s open data portal as a community resource. These communities do not have economically healthy neighborhoods that have been designated as investment interests by the city, foundations and corporations. Therefore their initiative is intentionally mobile so that the program can reach the most people. This includes free mobile workspaces as well as a focus on advocating for policy and teaching citizens how to build free internet. The goals of their program include providing tools for folks to develop their own ideas, inventions, and solutions. 

We are collaborating with a founding member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition in order to accelerate connectivity and access plus offer a heightened caliber of tools for Detroit neighborhoods. We are committed to improving quality of life in a city considered to be the second most segregated city in the US, where a large percentage of citizens rely on mobile-only access and 70% of school aged children have no internet access at home. 

University of Michigan Detroit Digital Divide Research: https://mv-ezproxy-com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/project/mapping-detroits-digital-divide/

Helping to Address the Literacy Crisis

Pilar Cote is a community activist, culture creator, and a multidisciplinary artist who has conducted 8 years of research on literacy, culminating in the creation of a literacy program "Teach Reading Now." Cote's work focuses on building proficient readers beginning at age 3 and 4 in order to build self-esteem and help people from underserved communities create her/his own options, direct their own future, break the cycles of poverty and actualize a fulfilling higher quality of life being able to fully participate in society.

Here are some of the research findings from Cote:

- Literacy breaks the cycle of poverty
- A 1% increase in the literacy rate would generate $18 Billion in economic growth every year.
- Investment in literacy programming has a 241% return on investment (http://www.literacy.ca/literacy/literacy-sub/ )

If just 1,000 dropouts in metro Detroit's class of 2010 had graduated from high school, they would likely :

- Earn as much as $14 million in additional earnings in an average year
- Support as many as 900 new jobs in the region
- Spend an additional $800.000 each year purchasing vehicles and, by the time they reach the midpoint of their careers, spend up to $39 million more on homes than they would likely spend without a diploma
(www.readingworksdetroit.org)

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults 16-74 years old - about 130 million people - lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

If all U.S. adults were able to move up to at least Level 3 of literacy proficiency, it would generate an additional $2.2 trillion in annual income for the country, equal to 10% of the gross domestic product. 

The nation’s largest metropolitan areas – including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas – would all gain at or just above 10% of their GDP by bringing all adults to a sixth grade reading level.

Assessing the Economic Gains of Eradicating Illiteracy Nationally and Regionally in the United States

- Children who lack early literacy skills are less likely to succeed as adults
- Over 70% of inmates in America's prisons cannot read above a 4th grade level 
- Nearly 85 percent of the juveniles who face trial in the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate
- More than 75% of those on welfare, 85% of unwed mothers and 63% of prison inmates are Illiterate
- As of 2011, America was the only free-market OECD country where the current generation was less well-educated than the previous
(United Way)

- Up to 47% of the City of Detroit adults are functionally illiterate.

(www.readingworksdetroit.org )

- 19% of US high school Graduates are functionally or completely illiterate every year - growing the illiterate group in the US every year. 

- At present, home, not school, determines vocabulary size by the end of grade 2. A child's vocabulary at age 3 predicts his or her first grade reading success. (Andrew Biemiller - Vocabulary Development and Instructions)

- Reading makes a child SMARTER, and the very act of reading can help children compensate for modest levels of cognitive ability (Cunningham, Stanovich -What Reading Does for the Mind)

- If we could create a community where every child is building early literacy skills and ultimately reading at grade level, then we could increase graduation rates, decrease unemployment rates and decrease the number of people in prison. (United Way)

We are working with Cote to incorporate Jewel as a tool for literacy building and access through the internet.

Helping Our Veterans

Better mental health and employment are essential to the well being of military veterans. Multiple studies have shown that homeless veterans are five times more likely to commit suicide. https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/...We are collaborating with veterans advocates such as Olivia Chavez-Carroll, a retired U.S. Army helicopter pilot, to provide PTSD treatment to veterans using signal processing technology integrated into Jewel, as well as semantic-AI approaches for translating military language (jargon and acronyms) for better understanding during interviews and throughout the period that military members experience challenges when transitioning.

Health Crisis for Disadvantaged People

Jewel has a unique capability to deliver medical information and services to underserved communities, in their native language, over low-speed network connections. Working with companies like Melalogic, focused on disadvantaged communities, Jewel will enable pre-diagnosis of dermatological abnormalities in areas of the world that have limited access to technology, which disproportionately consists of people of color. 

Models used for AI/ML applied to detecting melanoma early are predominantly based on images of subjects that do not represent skin tones of the eumelanin (primarily brown and black hues) and pheomelanin (primarily red and yellow hues) forms. 

Early detection of melanoma is a potentially life-saving medical service that Jewel can help deliver to the world. 

Melalogic is an app that gives black people a single source of skin health information from trusted professionals who look like them. Participating users will be able to donate to the Black Skin Health AI Data Set, which will give them the ability to submit a photo of any skin issue they may have and receive instantaneous feedback as to what it could be, and suggestions on how they should treat it. This new public data set will fuel AI-powered dermatology research and pre-diagnosis. 

Jewel will enable Melalogic to leverage patented and patent pending technologies to serve the target communities. 

Better Access to Digital Solutions for Native American Communities

The First Nations community in the US includes about 2% of the population however, they only receive 0.23% of philanthropic funds. Support for Native American organizations and causes fell by 25% between 2006 and 2012. There is a barrier to access for funding due to 'evidence based' requirements. The issues within these communities are the same across the country (digital divide, underfunding, access to safety, education, justice, healthcare, water, quality food, ownership, wealth building and the ability to effect change). 

Jewel offers the possibility of creating space for Native Peoples and many underserved communities. Language support and improved internet access provides excluded communities with the opportunity to communicate, share and access information, build together (solidarity), engage in self-directed learning and reinforce cultural education. It would give communities (especially vulnerable ones) greater access to factual information regarding human rights, policies, personal health (including mental health), safety, exploitation, justice movements and coalition building. It would provide an avenue to dispel myths and fallacies perpetuated by conspiracy theorists and those who use disinformation to advance their agenda. 

The Digital Divide and the COVID-19 Pandemic 

We are also in discussions with organizations that support low-income, veteran, disabled and homeless communities right here in the U.S. The pandemic exposed the challenges of large portions of the population being homebound. During COVID, we could see how children needed to be homeschooled and were severely impacted when broadband services were not affordable nor available. Multiculturalism and computer ‘skill level’ left a divide with many adults having to rush to up-skill computer learning and many had to overcome unique diversity challenges. Jewel will really help by delivering content and services over low-speed connections making for easier access and supporting community learning.

Jewel, has a vital educational approach that greatly advances the work of open source software groups, we hope to provide educators, NGO, community programs and all people, a valuable platform providing this vital combination of language support, improved translation, IT optimization, and the ability to create/monetize software behaviors. We have recently initiated our outreach to the community of linguists and academic institutions (e.g. Office of Modern Languages at CU Denver) for collaboration on our project. 

In Conclusion

These groups are examples of urgent outreach for inclusion projects that Jewel can partner with to provide essential access and help to now. 

Jewel will be a major contribution to the goal of digital inclusion on a global level. Jewel is just the beginning of a new generation of essential products designed for empowering digital inclusion and supporting communities to THRIVE.

Jewel is run by a diverse team that has a global multicultural vision, supporting an open source enabling inclusivity outreach plan and expanding our team with many multi-stakeholder partnerships to build this essential Jewel system solution to be of service to humanity.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted inequalities of societies and increased dependency on technology. The move towards the digital economy has impacted many communities and shifted millions of businesses and organizations into virtual or hybrid models, including entire education systems. Access to quality education has been strained even more by the shift to online learning. Education programs and business models everywhere have embraced hybrid models for the future, making the need to gain digital access more imperative than before. 

Jewel bypasses the need for broadband connectivity, addresses language (human and machine) barriers, and the need to learn how to code. 

We have built and demonstrated prototypes. The demonstrations were attended by executives from large corporate customers, and many senior representatives in business and government communities. We have received media coverage (e.g. Denver Post and the Da Vinci Institute) who witnessed our demos and described our technology as the "future of computing." 

The basis of any word or combination of words or combinations of sentences of words is filled with objective and subjective meanings. We have a system to capture these meanings and find similar meaning expressions in other languages, styles of speech or personalization.

This approach not only enables users to preserve their more subtle, yet critical meanings, but it also allows us to present additional info (as a hover, footnote, or other means) when translated into a different language or style of speech. Jewel is a big step towards making the phrase “lost in translation” no longer applicable to the Web.

We have created a revolutionary tool, the Semantic Periodic Chart for Computing, that maps human expressed meanings to the fullness of what computing can do. A tiny Essence® Agent (e.g. 26 kilobytes for Mac OS) generates self-optimizing, highly parallelized, machine-level instructions, in real-time. 

Our patented technology will enable Jewel, and other products based on our approach, to revolutionize the web browser market. Once we gain traction, we expect to reengage with other web browser developers on our plans to enable the semantic web, and beyond. We intend to license the core technology used by Jewel to other browser companies.

Jewel is the closest technology to the universal communicator, the holodeck, and a teleporter for data (the ability to semantically map levels of detail from input and to reconstruct the data so that the output is better quality than the input) in Star Trek, all rolled into one. 

Current - None as it is a new technology

Year one - Our goal is to serve 20 million people in year one

Year five - Our goal is to serve 1 billion people by year five 

1. Number of languages supported in digital form online/offline

2. Number of language speakers of newly supported languages

3. Number of new languages supported by translation technology

4. Accuracy rating of translation services

5. Quality of service available over low-speed connections

6. Number of new businesses online owned by disadvantaged communities and individuals 

7. Increased literacy rates among disadvantaged communities

8. Increased awareness of healthcare, education, and other information needed for an informed population

2 full-time

4 part-time

Ken Granville/Co-founder/CEO - As an African American who grew up in a single-parent home in Chicago, Ken experienced poverty first-hand. Ken has over 30 years of experience in the USAF (12 years), U.S. defense and intelligence community in operational signals intelligence, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, satellite operations and maintenance support, principal engineer, and Executive/Program Management for award winning serious games (e.g. GeoStorm, ISR Art of Warfare) for government organizations, and holds multiple patents.

Jake Kolb/Co-founder/Chief Science Officer - Over 30 years of experience as a creator of bleeding-edge technologies for video gaming (e.g. visualization for Doom 2), founded and operated (as CEO) Whatif Productions for 12 years (producer of multiple titles and game engine optimizations, and products for Sony, MGM Interactive, Microsoft, Midway, and many others), and holder of multiple patents. 

Maria Popo/CFO - Maria Popo is an expert at global go-to-market strategy, P&L management and translating technology into business. As CEO/President of Ubee Americas, Popo was responsible for GAAP and SOX 404 compliance through outside quarterly audits in preparation for IPO. Ms. Popo successfully led product start-up initiatives at Foxconn, 3Com and 3M.

Brian Knapp/COO/Investor - Brian has over 25 years of experience in IT operations, project management, enterprise-level application development and production support at several multinational corporations. A 2-time winner of the prestigious "HP Top Talent" award at Hewlett Packard. Brian is also on the advisory board of the Make a Wish Foundation, Colorado.

Scott Scharpen/EVP Business Development/Investor - Scott has over 25 years of experience as a business development and processing consultant/advisor to organizations including: New York Presbyterian, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and Intermountain Healthcare. 

Even as a startup, we have attracted amazingly talented individuals with diverse backgrounds. Given the appeal of both vision and mission, we have  had diversity, equity, and inclusion at the core of our company from day one. 

Our team has created a jumpstart workbook that reflects our culture and our values.

Here is an excerpt from our jumpstart workbook on culture:

• Safe-house - This is the safest place you can be. There is no
  tolerance for harsh judgment, insults, prejudice, or deceit.
• Policy Changes - We take pride in our policies. If they
  don't work, propose new policies and inspire change.
• Lofty Goals - This team is comprised of real
  people with huge goals. Some people may find them overwhelming or difficult to grasp. For MindAptiv, they are appropriate and inspiring.
• Introspection - Take the time to reflect back on yourself
  and the decisions you make. Know your strengths and weaknesses and focus on improving your skills.
• No Stubborn Overlords - You are free to pick up
  your pace, propose new ideas, and excel. There are no stubborn overlords waiting to shut you down or set you back for crossing into their zone.
• Make a Difference - You actually get a say. If you want to
  influence something, large or small, speak up and be heard.
• Consider the Alternatives - You can have preferences,
  just don’t make decisions without considering alternatives.
• Adaptive Culture - Our culture is not a rigid
  environment. Just like driving a car, rules must be followed to reduce risks and ensure the flow of things. Individuality, diversity, and freedom are also important. Our culture is ever changing and you can contribute.

We primarily are seeking to become a Solver to raise awareness that we have committed considerable time, money, and sweat equity that deserves the recognition that comes with the program. We are confident that funding will be available, not only through the program, but also in response to the unveiling of Jewel in the summer of 2021.

We also seek mentorship and other support from the MIT Solve program and its affiliates that can help us to deliver Jewel (our gift to humanity) where it is needed the most.  

As founders, we have considered other paths to market that do not involve giving back to humanity as a priority. Jewel is technology that the world needs, and we would be delighted to make it our top priority, while being able to sustain our small team. We believe that MIT Solve support for launching Jewel would be a great part of our go-to-market strategy.

• We have had considerable interest in our technology and can see that the demand will require rapid scaling of human capital
• We plan to interact with the media on a substantially greater level than in the past, which will require quality PR services
• We recognize that monitoring and evaluating data is essential. Especially, for a rapidly growing company
• Given the expectation that there will be high demand for products and services based upon our technologies, we need to create a world-class product/service team
• We have created a process that will support big improvements in software interoperability, maintainability, and security, which will require rapid growth of the technology part of the company

• MIT faculty on the software factory of the future
• MIT faculty and other community thought leaders on transforming computer security, and cybersecurity
• MIT faculty on writing white papers about topics such as 'cumulative computing' and what it means for cloud, edge, and personal computing
• MIT faculty and other community thought leaders on the emergence of a Crypto Browser and Semantic-AI (using a Semantic Periodic Chart for Computing)
• Any organizations that can use our technology to benefit disadvantaged communities

Jewel will provide refugees with access to information in their native language, as well as the ability to create value from the knowledge that they already possess. Refugee resilience, self-reliance and integration will be enabled through better understanding of different cultures. Better understanding of each other will lead to less conflict and tension.

As AI gets smarter, quantum computers get faster, and security vulnerabilities escalate with no sign of slowing down, we are running out of time to deal with both the gaps between human understanding of what technology is doing [the opaqueness of code], the explosive growth in energy consumption by IT to the detriment of the Earth’s climate, and the national imperatives to lead in the global AI race.

Our technology uses Semantic-AI to increase transparency and explainability in software, including AI. Jewel provides a path towards inclusion, digital literacy, and economic opportunities in communities across the US and globally.

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by weak support for languages. It negatively impacts their health, education, and economic potential. Jewel will provide solutions that address all three of these vital aspects of life for women and girls around the world.

Funding from this prize would enable us to port our solution to Android, Windows, Linux, iOS, tvOS, and our own semantic-AI powered OS version of Essence OS (independent of legacy OSes) called Essence Noir.

Essence Noir captures the minimal support needed to run without legacy operating systems, which requires Hardware Drivers, Standard Network Stack, and a Boot loader.  Future phases enable those 3 areas to be expressed in Qcode (generated instructions), but for phase 1, it makes best sense to use existing solutions and focus on our own RunTime Scheduler, Code Generation ( via Qcode ), and Compute Solutions.  

Noir is likely better utilized on a BSD variant, due to licensing issues, as Apple, Sony, and others have done, compared to a Linux variant, considering the GPL.  However, Linux or other kernels are certainly possible."

Noir is an exploratory project that puts Essence into an Appliance.  Consider the range from wearables to usb-compute-sticks to handheld to desktops to cloud servers or giant-super-computing-clusters', they can all run Essence and all cooperate to better solve tasks.  The idea behind Noir is to dismiss the legacy complications, security risks, and update-schedules of the existing operating systems and provide a streamlined model for using and sharing computing resources.

At the conclusion of this work, we have an "Essence OS", like PlayStation's Orbis OS or Apple's iOS, that runs our platform exclusively. Users can group various Essence OS boxes together for automatic scaling of solutions as well.

As AI gets smarter, quantum computers get faster, and security vulnerabilities escalate with no sign of slowing down, we are running out of time to deal with both the gaps between human understanding of what technology is doing and the explosive growth in energy consumption by IT to the detriment of the Earth’s climate.

Jewel is the world’s first Semantic-AI powered Crypto Browser that unifies the web, desktop, IoT, all the world’s data, languages, and crypto currencies, while expanding the Crypto Marketplace.

Jewel allows everyone to easily create NFTs with embedded data & trusted-behaviors, made from ordinary language. You can literally create NFTs from NFTs with Jewel. They can be compatible with Ethereum and other blockchains, and can use a new quantum-ready ledger that we call Sapphire. Jewel solves trust, security, and privacy problems in software, including AI, by delivering a new transparency and explainability model baked into its core.

Jewel helps to bridge the digital divide and enables everyone to participate as creators, not just users, in a new global Crypto Marketplace. We're excited about our vision of a more digitally inclusive and expansive marketplace of ideas.