On September 16, 2018, the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University solemnly held a press conference on the open platform for AI -- "Huahui Cloud". Professor Zheng Li, Vice President of Tsinghua University, Fan Bangkui, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhou Zhixin, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lu Jianhua, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dai Qionghai, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Duan Dunhou, Former Vice Chairman of All-China Federation of Trade Unions, representatives of relevant departments of central state agencies, relevant departments of the People's Liberation Army and scientific research institutions, Nie Fenghua, President of Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd., Li Yanhe, Secretary of CPC General Branch of Tsinghua Unigroup, and Yu Yingtao, Chairman of Unisplendour Corporation and other guests of over 200 from the industry and the academia attended the press conference. Leaders of Office of Scientific R&D, Tsinghua University, Graduate School, Undergraduate Academic Affairs Office, Education Foundation, and Office of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Administration as well as main persons in charge of relevant departments also attended the conference.
Jin Depeng, Party Committee Secretary of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, presides over the press conference
Zheng Li, Vice President of Tsinghua University, delivers a speech
Jin Depeng, Party Committee Secretary of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University presided over the press conference, and Zheng Li, Vice President of Tsinghua University, delivered a speech. Zheng Li pointed out that AI is the latest frontier of contemporary technology and the strategic commanding heights of future technological development. The development of AI requires the integration of multiple disciplines and the university should undertake the heavy responsibility of AI theoretical innovation and technological application. Tsinghua University's R&D level in the AI field has always been at the forefront of the world, and its ranking in terms of academic institutions in the AI filed in the world is only second to Carnegie Mellon University, ranking second. In order to better implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the deep integration of AI and the real economy, focusing on increasing the source supply of AI innovation, Tsinghua University sets about from the breakthrough of the basic theories and key common technologies of AI, the tackling of key intelligent chips and systems, the enhancement of the industrial application of the AI field, and the cultivation of high-end and efficient intelligent economy, and vigorously builds an open and collaborative Ai innovation system.
Collaborating with the Institute for Electronics and Information Technology in Tianjin, Tsinghua University, fully relying on the discipline advantages of Tsinghua University, under the support of Binhai New Area, Tianjin and China-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University has researched, developed and constructed a global leading AI software and hardware open platform - - "Huahui Cloud". The platform can both provide basic support for the AI original scientific research of Tsinghua University, and provide technical research and application innovation support for society and industry, and it is an important measure for Tsinghua University to actively respond to the national AI development strategy, its persistence in the deep integration of the industry-university-research-application road and the real economy, which is of important strategic significance.
Several mainstream media such as xinhuanet.com, cctv.com, people.cn, gmw.cn, Science and Technology Daily, China Economic Times, ifeng.com, sina.com.cn, and china.com reported on the spot.
Professor Wang Shengjin, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Big Data Research Center, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, introduces the overall situation of "Huahui Cloud"
Professor Wang Shengjin, Chief Scientist of "Huahui Cloud" and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Big Data Research Center, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, introduced that "Huahui Cloud" is an important carrier of AI teaching, scientific research and industrial development, and is an important support for the basic R&D of AI, the implementation of innovative projects, and the incubation of technology industries. "Huahui Cloud" has six advantages and characteristics of computing ability that can provide flexible resource allocation, rapid deployment of the latest AI achievements, independent and controllable AI platform support, support of organic integration of interdisciplinary AI research, close combination of platform and AI teaching, and technical support of AI industry incubation. It can conduct high-performance physical resource configuration, and relying on the cloud computing resource management system and the HPC cluster management system, it can effectively organize the distribution and management of computing resources, and realize the self-service functions of users; the platform can deploy various AI algorithm frameworks, and has five functional sections of deep learning training calculations, developer SDK calls, image and speech recognition services, big data datasets, and AI application solutions; at present, "Huahui Cloud" has successfully run a number of advanced AI computing system, such as face recognition, speech recognition, image recognition and public opinion analysis, which are independently developed by the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. "Huahui Cloud" will also provide open services to the society, and provide intelligent computing environments for education and teaching, scientific research and product incubation in the face of smart cities, smart healthcare, big data mining, and national defense and military.
"Huahui Cloud" cooperates with the national industrial policies and has built a AI software and hardware open and innovative platform with standard technology, open data and generalized reference design. The Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University will take "Huahui Cloud" as a basic support platform and combines with local and industry advantages to implement typical AI solutions in fields such as public safety, smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart agriculture, and national defense and military, promote the application of AI technology and products in key fields and main areas, and build application demonstrative projects.
Zhou Li, Engineer of the Artificial Intelligence Big Data Research Center, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, introduces the open functions of "Huahui Cloud"
Dr. He Liang from the Artificial Intelligence Big Data Research Center, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University introduces the voiceprint recognition application
Li Yong, Associate Professor of the Artificial Intelligence Big Data Research Center, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, introduces the smart city application
Based on "Huahui Cloud", the Department of Electronic Engineering will also establish an AI innovation accelerator to speed up the promotion and popularization of AI applications, and the breakthroughs of frontier technologies based on fields of face portrait, speech recognition, big data mining, and edge computing intelligence, and so on, gradually form an industrial agglomeration effect to gather high-end elements, high-end companies, and high-end talents to build AI industrial clusters and innovation highlands in Tianjin Electronics Industry Park of Tsinghua University to enhance the latter's influence in the global AI field.
Ruan Bing, General Manager of Huahui Changtian (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd., introduces the development plan of "Huahui Cloud"
Ruan Bing, General Manager of Huahui Changtian (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd., the operator of "Huahui Cloud", said that as a basic support platform for the AI R&D and application development of Tsinghua University, "Huahui Cloud" will provide open services to the whole society. It can both provide AI big data computing platform services to scientific research institutions through dedicated lines, and provide support for the service of AI research results to the whole society through Internet. Based on the principles and purpose of sincere cooperation, mutual benefits and joint creation of a win-win situation, we insist on innovation and leadership, insist on the integration of science and education and insist on service demands, actively become bigger and stronger, and open and share resources. We welcome global colleges and universities, research institutions, companies and teams to apply for the platform services.
