Artificial intelligence changes the future. On May 16, the 2nd World Intelligence Congress Deans’ Forum was held on Peiyangyuan Campus, Tianjin University. The deans of computer, software and intelligence colleges in China, as well as the top experts in artificial intelligence field at home and abroad, gathered at Tianjin University to jointly discuss the artificial intelligence talents cultivation under the background of emerging engineering education.
Zhao Zhonghua, vice chairman of the Tianjin Political Consultative Conference, and Zhong Denghua, president of Tianjin University, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony of Deans’ Forum. They also attended inauguration ceremony of the Division of Intelligence and Computing of Tianjin University with Professor Raj Reddy, academician of the American Academy of Engineering, academician of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and laurate of the A.M Turing Award, and Bai Haili, deputy director of the Tianjin Education Commission, and Liu Suxia, deputy director of the Administrative Committee of the Haihe Education Park in Tianjin, and Gu Yunbiao, deputy director of the Tianjin Municipal Commission of Industry and Information Technology. Besides, more than 300 experts and scholars in the field of artificial intelligence education and industry witnessed the establishment of the Division of Intelligence and Computing of Tianjin University.
Zhong Denghua introduced the artificial intelligence continuous exploration of Tianjin University in his speech. “The Report of the 19th National Congress of the CPC points out that the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy should be deeply integrated. The quality and quantity of talents determine the level and potential of artificial intelligence development. The New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan points out that China’s artificial intelligence cutting-edge talents are far from meeting the demands. Relying on the platform of the World Intelligence Congress, Tianjin University holds a Deans’ Forum. It hopes to set up a broad and in-depth exchange platform for deans, experts and scholars, to jointly cope with the opportunities and challenges of the construction of new engineering, and to jointly explore ideas and measures of the cultivation of artificial intelligence professionals and to jointly share the frontier and hot spots in the field of artificial intelligence research. I believe that through communication, discussion and thought collision, we are sure to enlighten our minds, broaden our horizons, inspire our inspiration and make due contributions to talents cultivation and discipline construction of artificial intelligence, the development of artificial intelligence technology and industry in the world and the progress of human civilization”, said Zhong Denghua in his speech.
“In recent years, in accordance with the important requirements of "Three Efforts" put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping for Tianjin's work, Tianjin has actively planned the strategic layout of the intelligent science and technology industry and built "Tianjin Intelligence Port" to serve the national strategy of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei areas coordinated development. Around this goal, Tianjin has deployed the General Action Plan to Accelerate the Development of Intelligent Science and Technology Industry and made clear efforts to vigorously develop intelligent science and technology industry. The core of the development of artificial intelligence lies in human beings. Through Deans’ Forum, we look forward to gather the full strength of experts and scholars and wisdom consensus in exploring the professional construction related to artificial intelligence, and the mode of personnel training, and the cooperation production and learning field”, said Zhao Zhonghua in his speech.
According to the overall deployment of building a new generation of artificial intelligence in China and Tianjin, Tianjin University establishes the Division of Intelligence and Computing. Tianjin University has a long-term accumulation in cognitive computing, data science, intelligent technology and application, etc and has made a large number of achievements in the field of cognitive computing, machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, computer vision, speech signal processing, etc. After more than 10 years of development and construction, the School of Computer Software of Tianjin University has gained high popularity and influence in China. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, software engineering is A-discipline, entering the top ten. The Group of Intelligence and Computing of Tianjin University has successively undertaken 973 projects related to artificial intelligence, key R & D projects, major national S&T programs, and key projects of the natural foundation. At present, more than 50 teachers, including distinguished youth, outstanding youth and national youth, have been engaged in basic and applied research on artificial intelligence for a long time. Tianjin University will take the establishment of the Division of Intelligence and Computing as an opportunity to build a group of intelligence and computing discipline with Chinese characteristics, world class and great character for the purpose of promoting the development of computer science and technology, software engineering, cyberspace security and artificial intelligence.
At Deans’ Forum, Li Deyi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Sheng, chief strategy officer of Huawei Software Development Cloud, and Ma Jianhua, professor at Hosei University, Baidu campus brand director Li Xuanya and other artificial intelligence experts from various fields made a special report on talent training and the future development trends of artificial intelligence and other issues for in-depth exchanges.
By : Liu Min
