Governor Michael Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Zaneta Ozolina Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Sandy Pentland, David Silbersweig, Mats Karlsson, Jim McManus As Russia’s war against Ukraine continues, global leaders and diplomatic observers have turned their...
Discussion Leaders: Governor Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan Advisor: Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor Contributors: Professors Alex Sandy Pentland, Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, David Silbersweig,...
(May 30th, 2016) The Obama administration released its final data policy framework establishing security expectations for organizations that participate in the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). “The 10-page framework, which builds on the National Institute of...
The Guardian reports that, Symantec, an Internet security-research firm, have found clues in the malware used to hack into international financial-messaging network Swift that suggest a link to the Sony Pictures hack in 2014. That hack has been...
(May 30th, 2016) As usual in such encounters, North Korea threatened retaliation after South Korea on May 27 fired what it called warning shots when a patrol boat and fishing boat from the North crossed the disputed sea border off the west coast of the Korean...
(May 30th, 2016) President Obama, making the first visit to Hiroshima by a sitting U.S. president, asked the world to consider the site of the first atomic bombing as “the start of our own moral awakening.’’ He was in Japan to attend the G7 Summit. Mr. Obama, in...
The biggest issues at the G7 Summit have been how to get the global economy humming again; the refugee crisis in Europe and the Mideast; Chinese expansionism in the East and South China Sea, and cybersecurity. Read this link. The last item has been a priority...
(May 30th, 2016) China's Defense Ministry asserted on May 26 that its aircraft followed proper rules after two Chinese fighter jets carried out what the United States called an "unsafe" intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea,...