Ali official says big things are coming! At the Conference on cloud computing, Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng (Xing Epilepsy) announced that Alibaba Group formally established the entity organization carrying the “NASA plan” – Dharma Hospital.
Zhang Jianfeng, CTO of Alibaba Group
On October 11, 2017, Hangzhou · Cloud Computing Conference opened in cloud Computing Town. At the meeting, Zhang Jianfeng, chief technology officer of Alibaba Group, announced the establishment of alibaba Dharma Institute, a global research institute, to conduct basic science and disruptive technological innovation research, and will invest 100 billion yuan in basic science research and development in the next three years. Then Jack Ma came to power and put forward three principles for the newly established Dharma Institute: First, Dharma Institute must live longer than Alibaba. Two, dharma Courtyard will affect at least 2 billion people. Third, Dharma Institute should learn to run for its own profit, but not without giving money.
In fact, as early as March this year, Ma Yun mobilized more than 20,000 scientists and engineers around the world to participate in the “new technology strategy” at the company’s first technology conference, launched the “NASA” plan, set up a strong independent RESEARCH and development department for the next 20 years, set up a new mechanism and system, and reserve core technologies for the new economy serving 2 billion people.
Zhang jianfeng said alibaba dharma Courtyard investment of 100 billion yuan over three years. The hospital by the global lab, university joint research institute, the global frontier of innovation research program studies include: quantum computation, machine learning, based algorithm, network security, visual computing, natural language processing, the next generation of human-computer interaction, chip technology, sensor technology, embedded systems, etc., covering machine intelligence, intelligence network, finance, science and technology, and many other industries.
At present, the “dharma” has already begun a frontier science and technology research center, around the world including Asia dharma courtyard courtyard courtyard, Europe, the americas dharma dharma, and in Beijing, hangzhou, Singapore, Israel, SAN mateo, bellevue, Moscow and other places to set up the different research direction of laboratory, plans to introduce the early 100’s top scientists and researchers.
Among the first group of 10 announced are three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and five members of the American Academy of Sciences, including:
Gao Wen: Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of Institute of Digital Media, Institute of System Chip, Peking University
Mei Hong: chief founder of Bluebird System, vice president of Beijing Institute of Technology, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wu Zhaohui: President of Zhejiang University, vice director of Zhijiang Laboratory
Huang Ru: “youngest female academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences”, authoritative scholar in the field of nanotechnology
A group of world-class scientists joined in:
Michael I. Jordan: World leader in artificial intelligence
George M. Church: A leader of the Human Genome Project
Li Kai: a scientist who proposed the idea of distributed storage design
Yizheng Zhou, director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, who defined computational thinking
Henry M. Levy: Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
When it comes to names, Alibaba doesn’t go out of its way. Why is he named Dharma?
Ali explained that in martial arts novels, dharma Academy represents the highest level of cultivation as the highest research institute of martial arts. In the same way, scientific research also needs the spirit of perseverance and concentration. We hope that ali people will have a “sense of patriotism” and a “sense of responsibility for the world”. Dharma Academy hopes to become a place where the wise men who love scientific research and are dedicated to scientific research can devote themselves to “cultivation and evolution”. It hopes to gather the world’s top scientific forces and devote themselves to the research of future-oriented core technologies, so as to truly achieve the goal of “the great man, the country and the people”. DAMO is actually DAMO. DAMO represents “The Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook, a research institute dedicated to exploring The unknown of science and technology driven by human vision”.
Therefore, it can be seen that the dharma Courtyard is not the dharma courtyard inside Alibaba, but the Dharma courtyard of an economic concept. Full of jack Ma’s eager expectations.
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