Huawei holds AI Summit for Teachers from 100 Universities to Accelerate AI Talent Development in Colleges and Universities

[51CTO.com original article] [Beijing, China, December 27, 2018] Today, Huawei and the School of Information Science and Technology of Peking University jointly held the AI ​​Summit for 100 Schools Teachers at the Yingjie Exchange Center of Peking University. More than 340 teachers from AI-related departments such as electronic information, computer, control engineering, automobile transportation, and robotics from 157 universities and research institutions attended the summit. At the meeting, Huawei and its partners discussed the development of AI in various industries and support plans for higher education, and invited university representatives to talk about the innovation and practice of AI teaching.

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AI Summit for Teachers from 100 Schools

Wu Zhan, Vice President of Huawei's IT Product Line, mentioned at the meeting: "In the past period of time, artificial intelligence technology has ushered in rapid development. Huawei will continue to invest in basic research, build a full-stack, full-scenario AI platform solution, and continue to invest in open ecology and talent training. Through today's AI Summit for 100 School Teachers, we hope to enable Huawei and teachers from research institutes and different fields of universities across the country to have an in-depth understanding of each other's AI-related products and technologies. We also hope that through the sharing and discussion of experts, we can provide useful suggestions for the training of talents in the field of artificial intelligence in my country. In the future, Huawei will continue to cooperate with universities in various ways."

At the AI ​​Summit for 100 Schools Teachers, Huawei also introduced the WoTu AI Talent Training Program. The program aims to help colleges and universities and research institutes use Huawei's full-stack AI technical capabilities and computing resources to develop AI disciplines in colleges and universities, and cultivate new industry talents needed for industrial transformation and innovative development; it also helps research institutes conduct academic research and scientific research innovation, and cultivate research and innovation talents in the field of artificial intelligence.

The benefits of the plan include providing Huawei Cloud AI resources and AI suite support. The AI ​​suite is based on Huawei's Ascend series chips and Atlas intelligent computing platform, and is a full-scenario AI infrastructure solution for end, edge, and cloud; jointly developing AI courses with universities and research institutions, jointly publishing books and teaching materials, supporting talent training and scientific research exploration, etc. For details of the plan, please visit the Huawei Cloud official website Wotu AI Talent Training Program page (entry link: https://developer.huaweicloud.com/aiplan).

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"Investing in an open ecosystem and cultivating talents" is one of the five major directions of Huawei's AI strategy. Huawei hopes to work with the entire industry to cultivate AI talents in colleges and universities, so that artificial intelligence can be brought to students faster, and every university, every department, and every student can further enhance technological innovation in the field of artificial intelligence!

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