Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
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Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is delighted to convene a pivotal conference on April 30, 2024, titled "Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity." Hosted at the prestigious Harvard University Loeb House, this event will bring together esteemed thought leaders,...
Deep Learning AI Accurately Predicts and Diagnoses Alzheimer’s Disease
The early and accurate diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is critical to providing quality care to afflicted individuals. Yet, with one of the largest populations of individuals aging into the high-risk years for Alzheimer’s, improved...
Professor Judea Pearl codes languages to challenge paradigms of computer science
Pearl, an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA, built his career by challenging generally accepted conventions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). When people upgraded to newer computers, Pearl continued to use his 20-year-old Wyse terminal. “I...
Professor Thomas Patterson will discuss with Barry Nolan about the Republican Party on May 5
Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, will speak about his new book “Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself?” at 10:00 am (EST), May 5, 2020 at AIWS.net. The moderator is Mr. Barry Nolan, member of the Boston Global Forum...
MIT presents AI frameworks that compress models and encourage agents to explore
In a pair of papers accepted to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, MIT researchers investigated new ways to motivate software agents to explore their environment and pruning algorithms to make AI apps run faster. Taken together, the...
Top Research Papers on Causal Inference
As researchers pursued the inevitable AGI in machines, there has been a renewed interest in the idea of causality in models. There are significant implications to applying machine learning to problems of causal inference in fields such as healthcare, economics and...
Father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, shares his perspectives
“What we need now is critical thinking. We have brains. God gave us brains. We shouldbe using them. Critical thinking is hard work.” On April 22, 2020, Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Google, Father of the Internet, and World Leader in AIWS Award...