On United Nations Charter Day, June 26, 2019, AI World Society Distinguished Lecture will be co-organized by the United Nations Academic Impact and the Boston Global Forum as the United Nation Academic Impact Charter Day Lecture at the Headquarter of the United...
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) Is the Strategic Alliance to host the Summit on AI Governance, Big Data and Ethics
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) Is the Strategic Alliance to host a Summit on AI Governance, Big Data and Ethics, a special program of the AI World Government Conference in Washington DC, June 24, 2019. The rapid acceleration of AI has led to a global call for AI...
Japanese official says relations with China getting worse
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that ties with China are "significantly deteriorating"after Chinese vessels repeatedly entered disputed waters in the East China Sea. Mr. Kushida had called the Chinese ambassador to Japan to protest what the...
Preparations begin for Japanese emperor’s abdication
Emperor Akihito. The Japanese government has begun work to revise the law governing the imperial family system to permit an emperor to abdicate. Emperor Akihito wants to abdicate, government sources have said. He has been treated for prostate cancer and heart...
Congressional Quarterly Roll Call Documents John Savage’s Contribution To A Historic International Cybersecurity Agreement
(July 4th, 2016) Congressional Quarterly Roll Call recently interviewed Professor John Savage of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) to document a unique moment in history. "The May 26-27 meeting of the Group of Seven in Ise-Shima, Japan,"...
BGF’s John Savage cited for cybersecurity work for G7
Needless to say, the colleagues of Prof. John Savage at the Boston Global Forum (BGF) were very pleased to read the announcement below from Brown University, which we have slightly edited for clarity. John Savage is a BGF member and the An Wang Professor of...
Japan plans major warplane purchases to counter Chinese expansionism
As Chinese expansionism fuels fears all over East Asia, Japan plans to buy new fighter jets worth a total as much as $40 billion. Japan is increasingly worried about Chinese aggression in the East China Sea, where there are a number of islands whose ownership the two...
Wonders at Japanese artificial-intelligence show
Robot with some social skills. A fascinating display of the Japanese artificial-intelligence sector is now open at Tokyo Big Sight. At the three-day AI World exhibition, 15 companies exhibited cutting-edge AI technology to try to build a society in which AI will make...