Tianjin Association for Artificial Intelligence Founded

On April 24, Tianjin Association for Artificial Intelligence was inaugurated by Tianjin University and Tianjin Supercomputing Center, vowing to promote the cultivation of artificial intelligence talents in Tianjin as well as the industry-academia-research-application integration. It is expected to improve the artificial intelligence ecology of Tianjin and enable the construction of Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Experimental Zone.

Dai Qionghai, Counsellor of the State Council, Chairman of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering delivered the opening speech. He said that the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence would provide full support to Tianjin Association in terms of academic research and exchanges, activity organization, industrial cooperation, and technical evaluation and awards.

Yao Jianquan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Tianjin University also attended the inaugural meeting. He remarked that artificial intelligence had significant spillover effect, which would stimulate the progress of other related technologies, boost the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the overall breakthrough of strategic emerging industries. “The next decade will witness the boom AI technology,” Prof. Yao noted.

More than 200 people from Tianjin Association for Science and Technology, universities in the city, some officials of Tianjin Xiqing District, as well as workers and entrepreneurs in the field in Tianjin participated in the meeting.

By Zhang Qingluan

Editor: Eva Yin