Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Director of MIT Connection Science, co-founder of the AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net), co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age, Distinguished Contributor of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global...
Professor Judea Pearl has been named World Leader of 2020 by the Artificial Intelligence World Society for his watershed work on quantifying cause-and-effect relationships in statistical analysis. This is a significant leap forward because statisticians heretofore focused on correlations, and remained mute on causality as being within their analytical realm.
(April 4th, 2016) This may be a sign of a further tightening of relations between South Korea and Japan, perhaps accelerated by their common concerns about North Korean and Chinese aggressiveness, as well as by Japan’s desires to create an upbeat mood for the G7...
(April 4th, 2016) The United Nations’ Global Citizenship Education program is a form of education of civic values in which the world is seen as global village where learning involves students' active participation in projects that address global social, political,...
(March 28th, 2016) Taking second place of the list of 50 of the world's greatest leaders is German chancellor Ms Merkel, who is currently facing an anti-migrant backlash after hoardes of refugees flooded the borders. Fortune magazine had named German Chancellor Angela...
(March 28th, 2016) The UN Secretary-General’s Global Initiative on Education has developed three core priorities: put every child in school, improve the quality of learning, and foster global citizenship. An upcoming U.N. Conference on Global Citizenship will host...
(March, 19th) In a deal in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel played a large role, the European Union and Turkey have agreed that new asylum seekers – many from Syria -- who arrive in Greece from Turkey will be returned to Turkey. In a deal in which German...
(March, 19th) Prof. Carlos Alberto Torres, a member of The Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers, will speak on “Global Citizenship Education and Global Universities Prof. Carlos Alberto Torres, a member of The Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers, will speak on...