Judea Pearl is the recipient of the fourteenth edition of the ICT Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the Spanish bank group BBVA for “providing a modern foundation to Artificial Intelligence”. The award includes a prize of €400,000 (about $457,000). Artificial...
In his trip to Vietnam to speak at the Policy Dialog “Building the Age of Global Enlightenment”, Vint Cerf, the Father of Internet, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google will attend the ceremony to launching the Vint Cerf House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet...
(April 11st, 2016) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assured visiting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last week that G7 leaders meeting at their summit in Japan on May 26-27 would discuss Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014 and its continuing support of...
(April 11st, 2016) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the European Union’s agreement with Turkey aimed at stemming the flood of refugees into Europe from the Mideast. Before the deal, Mrs. Merkel had been under increasing domestic political pressure, mostly...
(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...