On the Trump–Putin Meeting in Alaska (Aug 15, 2025) and the Upcoming Trump–Zelensky Meeting in Washington (Aug 18, 2025) Boston, August 17, 2025 The Boston Global Forum (BGF) recognizes the significance of recent high-level diplomacy between U.S. President Donald...
Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of the tragedy of war and the bitter lessons from the era of Japanese militarism....
The Biden administration on Friday Oct 7, announced sweeping new limits on the sale of semiconductor technology to China, a step aimed at crippling Beijing’s access to critical technologies that are needed for everything from supercomputing to guiding weapons. The...
“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.”