EVENTS
Chronicles
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University builds WABOT-2
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Waseda University built WABOT-2 in 1984. A follow up to the WABOT-1 they built in 1973, this robot was also anthropomorphic, but improvements were made. The WABOT-2 was a follow-up to the WABOT-1 project. This iteration can...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University builds WABOT-1
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Waseda University built WABOT-1 in 1973. It was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot, with a climb-control system, a vision system, and a conversation system. The WABOT-1 was the first of its kind. It was able to...
The History of Artificial Intelligence: looking back at history to shape the future
Nguyen Anh Tuan The Social Contract 2020 sets the foundation for a new historical chapter: the emergence of AI societies. Governor Michael Dukakis stressed the importance of studying history to prevent past mistakes from repeating in the present and the future. I...
Announcement
The History of AI" will be announced on May 5, 2020, at the Online AIWS Roundtable the Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Age, which is organized by Boston Global Forum and World Leadership...
Cornerstones in History of AI
Introducing AIWS City and AIWS.net at the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab
On September 17, at Session I of this event, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Co-Author of Social Contract for the AI Age, introduced the model of AI World Society City (AIWS City). AIWS City as a method of practicing the Social Contract for the AI...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network, in 1951. SNARC stands for the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator. It is a neural net machine, which itself is a randomly...
The Social Contract for the AI Age, completed and officially launched on 09/09/2020
This is the first social contract in the digital, Internet and AI era, a platform for connection among governments, stakeholders, and private and public institutions, and for balancing centers of power, initiated by the Boston Global Forum, will pay particular...




