News
Indo-Pacific and European faultlines: Four Pillars week

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...

Happy Birthday to Global Enlightenment Leader Judea Pearl

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

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...