Michael Dukakis Institute and Boston Global Forum support in building the Mekong Smart City in Vietnam On January 23, 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City, CEO of Nova Group Hoang Thu Chau and Governor of An Giang Nguyễn Thanh Bình, Governor of Dong Thap Pham Thien Nghia, signed...
Volodymyr Zelensky has addressed student Ukrainian societies across the UK pledging that he would not give up or “concede”. territory to Russia. Ukraine’s president spoke to student societies at Birmingham University, Coventry, London School of Economics, UCL, City of...
(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,"...
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...
The Twitter account of Brendan Iribe, who runs Facebook’s virtual-reality headset maker, Oculus, has been hacked, making him the latest in a long line of celebrity and tech bosses to have had their social-media accounts compromised in recent weeks. This doesn't...
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...
Many Chinese journalists are giving up on that profession as the Communist dictatorship tightens media control and a technology boom opens new opportunities for being paid much more than most journalists could earn. The Wall Street Journal notes that: {T}he trend is...
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...