AIWS supports the Global Digital Compact of UN Secretary General António Guterres

The UN Secretary General posted on his Twitter on Nov. 16: It is clear that without guidance and guardrails, digital technology has huge potential for harm. At G20 Summit, I urged leaders to support my proposal for a Global Digital Compact – firmly...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET

This week in the History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET. ARPANET stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and was a project that was funded by ARPA and the DoD. While urban myths claim that ARPANET was...

Cross-Border Digital Payment Systems: The Case of Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Beyond

“A revolution in digital technology and telecommunication has made an outsized impact on financial services and payments in the last three decades. We access our bank accounts from our phones, make instantaneous transfers, and buy goods and services...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun receive the Turing Award 2018

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the Turing Award in 2018 for breakthroughs that made deep neural networks critical in computing. The Turing Award is one of the...

Boston Global Forum honors UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology Amandeep Gill with World Leader in AIWS Award

November 22 event draws world leaders, thinkers and diplomats for exchange on AIWS Actions to create the Global Enlightenment Age   Cambridge, MA Nov 11, 2022 – The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is pleased to announce that the Technology Envoy to the...

The Growing Impact of Blockchain on How We Run HR and Talent Processes

The annual Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival takes place in New York this week (https://iaac.us). Among the distinguished authors who will be in conversation is Elizebeth Verghese, author of “(Block) Chain Reaction – The Future of How...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published an expanded edition of Perceptrons

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published an expanded edition of Perceptrons in 1988. The original book was published in 1969. The original book explored the concept of the “perceptron”, but also...

Closing the Digital Geneva Gap

“International organisations based in Geneva already have a strong importance for digital governance independent of any Swiss strategy. Relevant organisations include the International Telecommunication Union, the World Trade Organization, the UN...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government in 1983. It is a project developed in response to Japan’s own Fifth Generation Computer project. There was no specific focus or directive,...