563 | A 21st century essay towards a real character language

GradCast · Jul 21, 2026 · 29m

In this week's episode, hosts Ryan Baxter and Mark Ambrogio interview John (Jack) Kausch, who recently completed his PhD in Library and Information Science, formally graduating in June.

In his research, Jack looks at past attempts to establish a universal language, as a way of communicating knowledge and ideas across linguistic and cultural divides. Attempts to establish a universal language can be said to go back to ancient Egypt and continued with Francis Bacon and the quest for a "perfect language."

Using Real Language Character ontology, Jack built, in his dissertation, a knowledge…