The Boston Global Forum is proud to announce its collaboration with the Army Innovation Park (AIP) in Nha Trang, Vietnam, to establish the AI of History House as part of the AIWS Initiative. This groundbreaking project aims to curate and present the history of...
Two years since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Roundup on the Four Pillars
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...
Google is launching a global competition to develop AI
Google is giving the prize of $25 million to the group with the best AI solution for the world’s issues. The contest, the AI Impact Challenge was announced on October 29 at AI for Social Good event held at the company’s Sunnyvale, California office. Whereby the...
A new eco-friendly battery that can get a plane off the ground
A manufacturing trick with magnetic fields produces a battery that may discharge fast enough to get an aircraft off the ground. Yet-Ming Chiang, a materials science professor at MIT, and his colleague Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at...
Can robot be a better leader than politician?
With no emotions, machines could make fair, rational decision with concrete evidence; in addition there will not be corruption as well as unethical behavior. So can we entrust robots making decision for us? Can robot leaders do better than our politicians? The...
Agreement to cooperate AI and Education has been signed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Last week, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to Japan and met the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the India-Japan Annual Summit. The meeting brought about the collaboration in the effort of the technology’s innovation between the two...
President Vaira Vike-Freiberga is awarded the “Luise 2018” at Friedenstein Castle, Germany
On October 17, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga – President of the World Leadership Alliance–Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM), Former President of Latvia – was awarded the “Luise 2018” at Friedenstein Castle, Germany. This is the most valuable prize in the field of national...
Elliot Salloway in Memoriam
- By Llewellyn King, Executive Producer and Host "White House Chronicle" on PBS - Dr. Elliot Salloway, Executive Social Media Director of the Boston Global Forum Elliot Salloway was my friend but, in his way, he was a friend of everyone. Elliot was committed -- albeit...