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...
Amma, 2023 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, visits New England
Amma, renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader, continues her tour in North America with a visit to Massachusetts and New England. Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of Boston Global Forum, and BGF Board Members – CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, Professors Alex Pentland and...
“Revived the spirit of Massachusetts”: Governor Dukakis remembers Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit
July 11, 1976, was a day for the history books. It was the first trip to the United States from a British Monarch, and the first stop for Queen Elizabeth was Boston, Massachusetts. "People talk about the Miracle in Massachusetts, but when did it begin? The morning of...
‘Art is dead, dude’: AI-generated picture wins art prize, angering artists
"AI-generated art has been around for years. But tools released this year — with names like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion — have made it possible for rank amateurs to create complex, abstract or photorealistic works simply by typing a few words into a text...
Distinguished Vietnam Trip’s E-card of Global Enlightenment Leader Ehud Barak
The Boston Global Forum introduces a special digital work about Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a Global Enlightenment Leader, from Vietnam trip. Ehud Barak had a distinguished trip to Vietnam from August 2nd to 19th, 2022, holding great meetings and discussions and...
Happy Birthday to Global Enlightenment Leader Judea Pearl
September 4th was the birthday of Professor Judea Pearl. The Boston Global Forum congratulates his 86th birthday to him, the 2020 World Leader in AIWS Award recipient, a Distinguished Contributor to Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, and a...
Accelerating the pace of machine learning
Rick Blum, the Robert W. Wieseman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University, "seeks to bring efficiency to distributed learning techniques emerging as crucial to modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In essence, his...
Distinguished Vietnam Trip’s E-card of Global Enlightenment Leader Ehud Barak
VLAB Innovation creates a series of special digital works about Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a Global Enlightenment Leader, in Vietnam. Ehud Barak had a distinguished trip to Vietnam from August 2 to 19, 2022, holding great meetings and discussions, speaking to leaders,...