Join hands with more than 50 colleges and universities around the world, open dozens of real business scenarios, and propose eight major technical directions - this is the core of Alibaba's 2018 Global Innovation Research Program .
Following major moves such as independent research and development of chips and the wholly-owned acquisition of Zhongtianwei, Alibaba has also shown its determination to conquer core technologies in global academic cooperation.
Different from previous academic cooperation, Alibaba will open up real business scenarios and combine it with the top scientific research strength of global universities, so that cutting-edge technologies can be rapidly iterated in real scenarios and play a greater value.
Ma Yun said at the first Digital China Construction Summit that China needs a large number of enterprises that can take on major responsibilities to lead technological change. Dharma Academy is an entity organization that reflects Ali's scientific research determination. In terms of R&D system, in addition to its own research centers, it also includes university joint laboratories and global innovation research programs. The combination of production, education and research has made breakthroughs in core technologies.
The "Global Innovation Research Program" (AIR Program for short) proposes 8 major technical directions in the research direction of DAMO Academy, allowing scientists from all over the world to define and solve problems together. The 8 directions include: machine learning, natural language understanding, multimedia and natural human-computer interaction, knowledge engine, infrastructure, system software, data computing and security. These are also key technical fields involved in China's construction of a cyber power.
Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng talks about the key areas of academic cooperation in 2018
At present, Ali has cooperated with scholars from more than 50 universities around the world: they come from top universities at home and abroad, such as ETH Zurich, University College London, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and Peking University.
Ali AIR plans to cooperate with more than 50 colleges and universities around the world
In the past, the R&D process of scientific research institutions has always lacked the combination of scenarios. Based on 8 technical directions, Alibaba has opened dozens of real business scenarios, allowing school research to iterate rapidly in the real environment to play a leading role in the industry.
Ali technicians and university scientists sit on the ground
It is reported that Ali's academic cooperation ecology is divided into three steps. Open real business scenarios; jointly discover and define problems; internal and external collaboration ultimately solve problems.
As a part of the AIR plan, Ali also announced the AIR special research plan on the same day - the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion plan. The program brings together five universities, namely Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Soochow University, to describe concepts, entities and their relationships in the objective world in a structured form, and to express Internet information content as It is closer to the form of human cognition of the world, so that the computer has brain-like reasoning ability. At the same time, Ali also announced that it intends to initially build the first open knowledge engine service platform in one year to serve small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Cangjing Pavilion plan will focus on building technologies at two levels of knowledge construction and knowledge reasoning, taking multi-source large-scale data as the object, and studying common key technologies for transforming from big data to general and domain knowledge. Alibaba hopes to introduce cutting-edge natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning technologies through joint research and development with universities to form a complete knowledge engine service platform and open it to the outside world to serve all small and medium-sized enterprises.
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