AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
Co-founder of AIWS.net, Professor Alex Pentland, promoted as Board Member of the Michael Dukakis Institute and Boston Global Forum

Co-founder of AIWS.net, Professor Alex Pentland, promoted as Board Member of the Michael Dukakis Institute and Boston Global Forum

Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Director of MIT Connection Science, co-founder of the AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net), co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age, Distinguished Contributor of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global...

New book looks at past, future evolution of cyberterrorism

New book looks at past, future evolution of cyberterrorism

(June 6th, 2016) Julia Sweet , writing in Modern Diplomacy, praises Gabriel Weimann’s new book, Terrorism in Cyberspace: The Next Generation. See her review here. She writes: “The new book by Weimann can be found timely and valuable for a wide audience of readers....

Merkel urges U.K. to stay in E.U.

Merkel urges U.K. to stay in E.U.

(June 6th, 2016) Suggesting growing anxiety about the United Kingdom’s possible exit from the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned Britain that nations "at the bargaining table" negotiate better deals than those "outside the room". Mrs. Merkel...

U.N. conference pushes global citizenship education

U.N. conference pushes global citizenship education

(June 6th, 2016) A United Nations conference in South Korea has stressed the urgency of greater investments in global citizenship education programs around the world to unlock the potential of young people. The global education action agenda at the meeting affirmed...

Hackers spying on U.S. presidential candidates

Hackers spying on U.S. presidential candidates

(June 6th, 2016) James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, says that that hackers, possibly working for foreign governments, are spying on  American presidential candidates. As a result, government officials are working with the campaigns to tighten...

Fed has been under heavy cyberattack

Fed has been under heavy cyberattack

  The U.S. Federal Reserve System has detected more than 50 cyberbreaches between 2011 and 2015, with several incidents called "espionage’’. Most observers speculate that Russia and/or China, which are engaged in continuing cyberattacks against the U.S., are...