Launching the book “Remaking the world – The Age of Global Enlightenment”

May 27, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM, EST 8:30 am: Opening Remarks by Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief, United Nations Academic Impact Remarks by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair, Boston Global Forum Speech by Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT, “Our...

Indian Ambassador Raghavan speaking at the AI International Accord Conference on April 28, 2021

I would like to warmly compliment Prof. Choucri for a masterly compilation of a concise, and yet comprehensive, paper outlining the elements of an AIIA, capturing the intricacies of the issues involved and appreciating the breadth of the challenges. She...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum formally introduces expert systems

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum formally introduces expert systems in 1965. He was a part of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, which contained other notable AI pioneers. Edward Feigenbaum is an American computer...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published in 2018

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...

UN Centennial Roundtable “Digital Tax and Trade Consortium”

The plethora of government tax, fiscal, and trade digital transformation initiatives are each occurring within a single country domain. A preliminary analysis of this growing digital transformation demand reveals multi-country interest in key tax, fiscal,...

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...

The United Nations Centennial Roundtable with Professor Alex Pentland

Live stream here Digital Future toward the Age of Global Enlightenment Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT, May 6, 2021 How are AI and data systems evolving? What is the future of digital Government, Commerce, and Citizen Services? Broad technology...

Ambassador Lambrinidis: “Exploring Social Contract for the AI Age, a Framework to ensure an AI ‘Bill of Rights’ in the digital age, is fundamental in international relations today”

On April 28, 2021, Boston Global Forum hosted the AIWS Award and AI International Accord Roundtable where Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis was awarded the 2021 World Leader in AI World Society (AIWS) and joined with fellow leaders in innovation to discuss...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky publishes “The Society of Mind”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky publishes The Society of Mind in 1987. This book is a theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents. Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist....