“And a lot of the focus that we have is in taking the two centuries old idea of census data and augmenting it to have richer census data. So, the census data is something that it’s hard to appreciate, but any sort of modern management of society, government services...
The Boston Global Forum (BGF), MIT Connection Science, and professor Alex Pentland will co-organize the high-level discussion “Teach for Peace,” as a part of the United Nations Centennial Initiative at Stanford University in November 2022. Professor Alex Sandy...
"In their new book Machines Like Us, computer scientists Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque discuss their view and potential solution to this missing piece of the AI puzzle, which has eluded researchers for decades. In an interview with TechTalks, Brachman...
On September 26, 2022, one day before national funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Boston Global Forum officially launches the website Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security at Abe.AIWS.city. We invite people to pray for Shinzo Abe by sending words,...
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, a Global Enlightenment Leader, join with other thought leaders in a letter to the Financial Times: “Developing countries must have the data to fight climate crisis.”
Ramu Damodaran, co-chair of UN Centennial Initiative, the first Chief of UN Academic Impact, and a Distinguished Contributor of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, presented opening remarks at BGF online high-level panel “Peace for the Global...
“Colleges and universities face severe challenges in preserving a secure research environment,” writes Inside Higher Ed, which, in the last two years, along with other news outlets, has “reported a surge in ransomware attacks, causing significant operational and...
The Special Competitive Studies Project released report “Mid-Decade Challenges to National Security” at https://www.scsp.ai/reports/mid-decade-challenges-for-national-competitiveness/ The report outlines the stakes of the U.S.-China technology competition and presents...