AI in the Age of Global Enlightenment Contest

AI Contest 2023 – AI in the Age of Global Enlightenment is an aspiring competition organized by VLAB Innovation in collaboration with the Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation. It serves as a bridge...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral in 1965. This was an AI project that later also became the first expert system. Edward Feigenbaum is an...

Launching the Global Internet Governance, Digital Empowerment and Security Alliance (GLIDES) at C20 Summit in Coimbatore, India

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) empower people on the ground. However, there are few initiatives that bring CSOs together to voice their thoughts and best practices. Objective: Create an alliance of CSOs from across the world as part of Civil20 that...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published on 15 May, 2018. The book discusses causality and Bayesian probability, as well as their relations to fields such as AI and statistics. Judea Pearl is a renowned...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Deep Blue” machine defeated Garry Kasparov, the then-reigning World Chess Champion, at chess, in a highly-publicised match on 11 May, 1997. This date was the conclusion of 2 matches, one starting...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916. He is recognized as the father of Information Technology. Shannon also participated and was a part of the inception of the Dartmouth Conference. Claude Shannon...

Professor John Quelch speaks about “How to compete with China in the Age of AI and Data”

The Boston Global Forum is proud to host a high-level conference at Harvard University Faculty Club on April 26, 2023, featuring John Quelch, Emeritus Harvard professor and former Dean of three leading business schools. Quelch, who is also a co-founder...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate became the first industrial labor robot

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate, an industrial robot developed in the 50s, becomes the first to work in New Jersey in 1961. Unimate was invented by George Davol, who filed the patent in 1954. Davol met Joseph Engelberger in...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI Lab

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the MIT AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky in 1959. This marked the beginning of coordinated AI research at MIT. The lab focused on researching and developing AI. The Lab went through...