With the election of Trump in November 2016, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 2015 World Leader for Peace and Security Award Recipient, proactively engaged with his administration to help contribute to shaping its decisions rather than being shaped by them. At the...
Mark Kennedy Visits Vietnam to Strengthen Indo-Pacific Economic Ties
Mark Kennedy, Director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition and a member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers, will visit Vietnam from August 31 to September 7, 2024. The purpose of the visit is to gain deep insights into Vietnam’s...
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...
“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...