The intelligence contest reveals the arrival of the big data age

Recently, the 36th annual http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/34724.html "> International Undergraduate Program Design Competition (ACM-ICPC) World Finals held in Warsaw, Poland." The competition attracted more than 8000 teams from 2219 colleges and universities in 85 countries, with more than 25000 contestants. The top 112 teams entered the annual finals, and after intense competition, St. Petersburg it and the University of Optical machines won the championship with 9 answers and fewer results. Warsaw University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, three. In addition, Chinese athletes such as Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese University of Hong Kong also performed well, winning silver medals in sixth and eighth place respectively.

As a prestigious university event in the world, the competition attracts the world's most gifted computer majors and is a veritable battle of the mind. Every international undergraduate Program design contest will be based on the prevailing technology trends, set the relevant technical Exchange theme, the organizers will also organize activities during the competition, to help students learn the latest business trends and industry technology. According to the Contest sponsor, IBM Software Group Architecture and Technology Vice President Salvatore Vella introduced, the theme of the finals, set for large data analysis, intelligent business, cloud computing and social commerce, reflects the current industry's main technical hotspot.

"A whole new era of computing is drawing near as the big data wave surges." "We will bid farewell to the traditional data-based computing model and begin to embrace the era of information based computing," Vella said. In this process, the value of large data-oriented analysis technology is further highlighted, with the help of more intelligent computing systems and software, computers will further break through traditional limitations and gain the ability to perceive, learn, think and predict. Based on the perspective of technological change, IBM defines this new computing model as "cognitive computing".

"The computing system of the next 20 years will collect the massive information containing its operating mechanism from the physical world, extract the meaning from it, and provide credible reference suggestions for all kinds of human decisions." Computational intelligence will be ubiquitous, and the computer will anticipate our expectations, rather than wait for human orders like now, which will make us smarter. "Vella said.

Doug Heintzman, strategic director and ICPC sponsor of IBM software products, believes that "cognitive computing", based on information analysis, is expected to achieve the commodity of information analysis. "During this competition, IBM has demonstrated the value of large data and related analytical techniques for participating students in a variety of forms, and has organized in-depth technical discussions in the hope of stimulating their participation in technological innovation." At the same time, as an important channel for IBM to discover and train the top talent of computer, IBM will also strengthen its talent reserve and develop a targeted talent training program. "Heintzman said.

"To develop and develop computer science talents in this way is the core theme of this professional tournament." "IBM has been sponsoring since 1997," says Bill Poucher, executive director of the International College of Program Design Competition and a professor at Baylor University, which opens up opportunities for more computer majors to showcase themselves on a larger stage. ”

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