The 2018 International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications kicked off Wednesday in Nanjing. Through high-level dialogues and other activities, the conference will develop a total plan for the development of artificial intelligent cooperation and help Jiangsu build a modern industrial system by promoting the establishment of an artificial intelligence industrial highland in Jiangsu.
On behalf of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, Lou Qinjian, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, extended his warm welcome to the distinguished guests and expressed his highest respect to the winners of the A.M Turing Award, the world’s top award for computer science.
He also thanked the experts and scholars who have explored tirelessly in the fields of computers and the Internet and the entrepreneurial investment communities for their insightful support.
Lou noted that General Secretary Xi Jinping has elaborated on the necessity to promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence with the real economy to make the digital economy bigger and stronger.
Jiangsu will spare no efforts to promote informationization and intelligentization for the acceleration and construction of an innovative province and a modern economic system, he said.
In recent years, continuous breakthroughs have been made in computer theories and cutting-edge exploration, Lou said, adding that countries around the world are exploring changes in the structure of computer systems to win future development.
Yao Qizhi, winner of the Turing Award winner and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, addressed the opening ceremony. Yao is also a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences, the School of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Information at Tsinghua University and Dean of the Turing Institute of Artificial Intelligence.
The establishment of the Turing Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Nanjing will give full play to the high-level academic talents and high-level scientific research of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Information at Tsinghua University, become dedicated to transforming the frontier achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, promote the industrialization of achievements in universities and make positive contributions to the economic and social development of Jiangsu.
(Source: Jiangsu Interntional Channel)