XUNICEF News and Views

  Welcome to a brief overview of articles that appeared last week on our website. Please don't stop here - be sure to browse the full list of articles that appeared this week. xunicefnewsandviews.blogspot.com Our Traveler of the Week - Gautam Banerji Malta - A Whirlwind Tour Gautam's narrative and lovely photos take us to the blue lagoons, ancient churches and catacombs in Malta. He also takes us to the lesser known cities of Mosta, Mdina, Rabat, and the relics of Hagar Qim, as well as the famous seafront of Valleta. Click here. Our Columnists This Week   Ken Gibbs  AI - The elephant in the room   Fouad Kronfol  On Artificial Intelligence        Detlef Palm  Intelligence, Artificial or Otherwise   Ramesh Shrestha  Branding and Marketing of Hypocrisy   Richard Morgan  A Poem - About the War Memoir  Chance Encounters : Sree Gururaja Verse On Artificial Intelligence  - Fouad Kronfol Artificial Intelligence: This week we chose the theme Arti

  Where do I begin? It was just some random thoughts - of Madhu and I - that ignited this flame for yet another adventure. We found our two-months summer vacation far too long to stagger out in one place. And yet we had to be home in the UK to catch up with our two daughters and our three grandchildren on what has now become our annual pilgrimage from Armenia. Madhu loves 'adventure' and she does a great job with 'deals' as well. The four-star-plus package she worked out for the two of us, with a budget airline flight included, couldn't have been better. I shared the news in our weekly Google Meet of the XUNICEF editors and we concluded that a mini-reunion with Margherita Amodeo in Malta would be an added bonus. I last met her in person at the Armenia Reunion and much earlier when we were both assigned to UNICEF Baghdad under a complex emergency in the immediate aftermath of the first Gulf War.  We had also exchanged a few emails when I joined Madhu on her assignmen