AI and Geoeconomics

British and American diplomats signed  the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814      Selected excerpts from  Jeswald Salacuse – Harvard Business Review – February 2008 Jeswald W. Salacuse is Henry J. Braker Professor of Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, the senior graduate professional school of international affairs in the United States. He is also member of the Executive Committee of Harvard Law School Program On Negotiation (PON). A focus on four key aspects of negotiation theory—interests, relationships, voice, and vision—will improve your leadership skills. 1. Practice interest-based leadership Why should the people you’re supposed to lead follow you? If you believe that your charisma, your exalted office, or your vision is reason enough, you’re in trouble. While these qualities may affect how others relate to you, the unvarnished truth is that other people will ...

"Cutting plane" methods converge on the optimal values of a mathematical function by repeatedly cutting out regions of a much larger set of possibilities (gold sphere). Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Optimisation is everywhere Source: Phys.org 23 October 2015 Optimisation problems are everywhere in engineering: Balancing design trade-offs is an optimisation problem, as are scheduling and logistical planning. The theory—and sometimes the implementation—of control systems relies heavily on optimisation, and so does machine learning, which has been the basis of most recent advances in artificial intelligence. Last October, at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, a trio of present and past MIT graduate students won a best-student-paper award for a new "cutting-plane" algorithm, a general-purpose algorithm for solving optimisation problems. The algorithm improves on the running time of its most efficient predecessor, and the researcher...

Donald Tusk @eucopresident  China – National Party Congress (5 March 2016) China will let its fiscal deficit grow by 560 billion yuan to 3% of GDP in 2016 # NPC http:// ow.ly/Z7ZCa   OIL - GCC Equity Market (6 March 2016) GCC Stocks Enter Bull: lots of expectation has been built into the potential meeting at the end of the month http://ow.ly/Z803A #OPEC EU – Turkey Summit (7 March 2016) The political stakes for the German chancellor are rising by the week: human, political and geopolitical challenges @FT EU-Turkey summit: high-stakes and unpleasant choices, says Gideon Rachman http://on.ft.com/1U46Kt5   ECB – Mario Draghi (10 March 2016) Week Ahead Economic Outlook: ECB policy easing anticipated - FT.com http://ow.ly/Z80kd