Ruth Pearl, wife of professor Judea Pearl, passed away at 85

Ruth Pearl, the mother of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who turned the profound and lasting agony of losing a son into a life of activism, outreach and bridging cultural divides, has died at her home in Los Angeles. Pearl, who died July...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the ‘advice taker’ in 1959

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the “advice taker” in his paper “Programs with Common Sense.” This hypothetical program was the first to use logic to represent information. The paper was published in 1959. John...

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

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons in 1969. The book explored the concept of the “perceptron”, but also highlighted its limitations. It was also pessimistic in its predictions...

AIWS Innovation supports the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG)

AIWS Innovation at AIWS.city is a platform for GADG. It will create lists of governments, organizations, companies, leaders, and thinkers that help GADG’s mission and collect their information on digital and AI projects: + Goals, purposes + Research,...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed perceptrons in 1957

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed perceptrons in 1957. It is a form of neural network that allowed pattern-recognition. Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist. Born in 1928, Rosenblatt would go on to...

The Causal Revolution as the Summit of Scientific-Technological-Industrial Revolutions

Judea Pearl is the author of The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect lead Causal Revolution. He is also the recipient of the 2020 World Leader in AI World Society and leads the section Modern Causal Inference of AIWS.net.   It is common...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code on 9th July, 1941. Alan Turing, considered the founder of computer science and A, played a vital role in this process in developing the Bombe. Alan...

Paul Nemitz’s idea for International Law on AI

At the AI International Accord Conference on April 28, 2021, organized by Boston Global Forum, Paul Nemitz presented his ideas: Is it right to take the multilateral agreement on the law of the sea which is a United Nations agreement as a model for our...

Apply AIWS Ecosystem at AIWS City: A Model for the Digital Age

Apply AIWS Ecosystem at AIWS City: A Model for the Digital Age Nguyen Anh Tuan   The Digital and AI Age is remaking the world. The issue is whether that remaking will serve the common good. Judging from history, it is a mistake to assume that such an...