Mark Kennedy, Member of BGF Board of Thinkers As submitted to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in response to a Request For Information asking for input for their upcoming US AI Action Plan Action Steps to Strengthen US AI Leadership and Economic...
Boston, MA – March 22, 2025 – The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is deeply saddened to hear the passing of Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of Massachusetts and the outspoken wife of BGF Co-chair Governor Michael Dukakis, who died at the age of 88. Kitty was a steadfast...
Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University...
Google Plus is a social networking and identity service that is owned and operated by Google Inc. Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an...
(Photo Credit: Japan Daily Press) (BGF) - On Sunday, May 4, 2014 The Boston Globe picked up a story from the Associated Press discussing the debate in Japan about revising the Japanese constitution. Current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pushing to revise...
(BGF) - Late last month Xu Xinbo wrote an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times in which he argued that the United States should allow Japan and China to resolve the territorial dispute on their own. U.S. action, such as reaffirming the U.S.-Japan security treaty, Xinbo...
(Photo Credit: AP) (BGF) - According to Reuters, in an article picked up by DNAIndia.com, Japan will host a military exercise from May 10 to May 27. The exercise is designed to provide practice defending an island and will take place on an uninhabited island in...
(Photo Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) (BGF) - Recently Mark Landler, writing for The New York Times, discussed President Obama's trip to Asia in light of the U.S. relations with China. As Landler notes in the article, President Obama's comments on the...