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Mark Kennedy Visits Vietnam to Strengthen Indo-Pacific Economic Ties

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...

Incursion in Kursk and hidden wars elsewhere: Four Pillars week

Incursion in Kursk and hidden wars elsewhere: Four Pillars week

While Ukraine fights on and continues making small gains in its incursion into Kursk Oblast against Russia, this offensive has revealed many topics of interests for the Four Pillars: Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking. [Washington Post]...

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...

Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel

Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel

The United Nations Secretary-General has appointed 10 high-level and eminent persons to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel. In line with the mandate of the IGF and as recommended in the Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital...