The Boston Global Forum's Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security aims to foster connections among businesses and people in the US, Japan, India, and Taiwan. This initiative seeks to create an AI public for the people in these regions, supporting an innovative...
Indo-Pacific and European faultlines: Four Pillars week
This week has been a more mellow one, but that doesn’t mean that nothing happened. In fact, plenty happened in the Four Pillars space, but as these are small events or stories without an broad overarching theme like last week or the NATO summit. We have compiled them...
Remarks of Ramu Damodaran on International Day of Peace
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...
Cybersecurity in Academic Research
“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...
Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the Special Competitive Studies Project Global Emerging Technologies Summit
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...
President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed further defense cooperation with President of Finland Sauli Niinistö
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 2022 BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, and President of Finland Sauli Niinisto, 2018 BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, discussed the countries' defense cooperation and visa restrictions for...
AI model detects COVID-19 infection in people’s voices
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect COVID-19 infection in people's voices by means of a mobile phone app, according to research to be presented on 5 September at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain. It was...
Harvard Professor David Silbersweig, co-founder of AIWS City, speaks at the Opening Ceremony of Academic Year 2022-2023 of Vietnam National University at Hanoi
On the morning of September 5, 2022, the leaders of AIWS City attended the Opening Ceremony Academic Year 2022-2023 of the School of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam National University at Hanoi. The Boston Global Forum CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan and Harvard...