The "Tide Head" of Science and Technology Releases the Momentum of Innovation ——15 world internet conference Leading Science and Technology Awards Officially Announced
Technology "Tide Head" Releases the Momentum of Innovation
— — 15 world internet conference leading science and technology awards officially announced.
Guangming. com reporter Li Wenjian Cong Fangyao Bing Lin
On the afternoon of November 8, as one of the important activities of the 2023 World Internet Wuzhen Summit, the award ceremony of the 2023 World Internet Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement Award was held, and 15 leading scientific and technological achievements were collectively unveiled.
Since 2016, in order to build a global platform for innovative display of leading scientific and technological achievements on the Internet to a higher standard, world internet conference International Organization has set up the "world internet conference Leading Scientific and Technological Award" to commend leading scientific and technological achievements to the world and share the extraordinary contributions of practitioners in the Internet field, which has been held for seven consecutive years. This year, the release of the world’s leading scientific and technological achievements on the Internet was upgraded to the "Leading Science and Technology Award" for the first time, and the results were divided into key technologies, basic research and engineering research and development, covering more frontier scientific and technological fields.
Opportunities and challenges coexist, and 5G is moving forward in breakthroughs.
In recent years, a new generation of information technology, represented by 5G, is accelerating its integration into all aspects of the economy and society, becoming a key support for the smooth circulation of data resources and an important engine to lead the transformation and upgrading of industries with intelligence, greening and integration.
In November this year, the 2023 China 5G Development Conference was held in Shanghai. According to reports, by the end of September, 3.189 million 5G base stations had been built and opened in China, and over 90% of the 5G base stations were jointly built and shared, and the 5G network was accelerated to be intensive, efficient, green and low-carbon.
Parallel to development, new problems and new challenges arise. With the continuous development of mobile communication, its energy consumption has also increased sharply. In order to achieve the goal of "double carbon", the energy efficiency problem of 5G network needs to be solved urgently. To this end, the project "Research on Energy Efficiency Mechanism of 5G Mobile Communication System" selected as the leading scientific and technological achievement award is just the right time. "By constantly exploring the mystery of energy efficiency of 5G ultra-dense cellular network, our team found that it has saturation effect with throughput, and proposed international leading solutions to improve energy efficiency and solve decoupling problems." Ge Xiaohu of Huazhong University of Science and Technology introduced the advantages of this achievement at the scene, expecting that these research achievements can effectively improve the energy efficiency of 5G networks, reduce carbon emissions, promote the sustainable development of the new generation of communication systems, and have been widely recognized internationally.
Reducing energy consumption is one aspect, and how to better improve the efficiency of resource use is also a major aspect that needs to be addressed in the development of 5 G. The project "Innovation and Industrialization of Key Technologies for Co-construction and Sharing of 4G/5G Mobile Communications" from China Telecom Group Co., Ltd. and China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. provides a solution model. "We have built the world’s first, largest and fastest 5G SA co-construction and sharing network, realized the full sharing of 4G IF networks, and broke through a series of major technological innovations and industrialization problems such as sharing devices, equipment, networking and operation." Jun Li, deputy general manager of China Telecom Group Co., Ltd., and Liang Baojun, deputy general manager of China United Network Communication Group Co., Ltd. jointly introduced the advantages of this project in innovating network architecture and operation, overcoming core technology algorithms and breaking through large bandwidth devices. Through joint construction and sharing, this project effectively reduced redundant construction, improved resource utilization efficiency, saved over 20 billion kWh of electricity and reduced carbon emissions by over 10 million tons every year, providing an innovative Chinese solution for the green development of global 5G networks.
In addition to meeting challenges, 5G is also providing key support for the smooth circulation of data resources in various fields. China United Network Communication Group Co., Ltd. brought the project of "Innovation and Application of Key Technologies of All-Optical Base", and its achievements have served more than 900 million users of China Unicom, providing reliable network guarantee for many major events including the Beijing Winter Olympics, and related innovative technologies have also been applied to more than 100 networks around the world.
Qualcomm Wireless Communication Technology (China) Co., Ltd.’ s "The World’s First 5G Advanced-ready Modem and RF System — — Snapdragon X75 "project. By taking the lead in introducing new features of 5G-Advanced and deeply integrating innovations such as 5G and AI, the project has extended advanced 5G technology to various terminals and many industries, including smart phones, automobiles, PC, mobile broadband and other user terminals, as well as industrial applications such as Internet of Things and enterprise private networks, and set up a "breakthrough road", "wisdom road" and "high speed road" leading to a new intelligent world.
AI empowers thousands of industries and applications to serve thousands of households.
Nowadays, countries around the world are actively developing a new generation of artificial intelligence, and medical AI is developing rapidly. Tencent has also been approved for innovative medical devices in pneumonia, glaucoma, colon polyps and other diseases, becoming the first Internet technology enterprise with three types of medical AI certificates for multiple diseases. Wu Wenda, president of Tencent Health, said that "Tencent Shadow Digital Intelligence Medical Imaging Platform" condensed the scientific research strength of medical AI, broke the bottleneck of clinical application of AI, and really handed AI assistants to doctors.
"Our ideal AI can not only improve production, promote innovation, but also be reliable. This ideal has been initially realized." Chen Xudong, Chairman and General Manager of IBM Greater China, introduced watsonx, an enterprise-level AI and data platform released by IBM at this year’s annual Think Conference. "It can not only help enterprises to use large models and generative AI, but also solve the three major challenges of enterprise-level AI application: one is to find the needed data, the other is to establish a suitable model, and the third is to supervise the operation of the system."
For the industrial Internet platform, AI makes data more valuable. Facing the new situation and trend of accelerating energy revolution and energy transformation, Shenyang Institute of Automation, China Academy of Sciences, together with China Petroleum and Shenyang Zhongke Aowei Technology Co., Ltd., launched WIA-PA technology and system of industrial Internet of Things for smart oil fields. By constructing an industrial Internet of Things system with full coverage of oil field production, an industrial Internet of Things ecosystem integrating network, hardware and software was built, and real-time online monitoring of oil well production process dispersed in a wide area was realized, forming a new mode of smart oil field production integrating remote measurement, fault diagnosis and energy saving optimization.
Antonio Frisoli, CEO of Next Generation Robot Intelligent Manufacturing Co., Ltd., said in the release of "ARGO: Autonomous Inspection of Locomotive and Rolling Stock" that railway robot is a new application field of artificial intelligence in inspecting railway vehicles, and ARGO is a new type of robot, which can independently inspect the safety of trains. "ARGO robot can adapt to any standard railway without being limited by space, and because the robot is equipped with lidar sensors, it can interact with humans safely."
Chen Shanzhi’s team of China Xinke, which also focuses on the transportation field, first proposed the LTE-V2X car networking technology in 2013, and the world’s first cellular car networking (C-V2X) technical route. Together with friends, it led the development of international standards in 3GPP, which was widely recognized and adopted by the global automobile and transportation industries.
"The Internet of Vehicles is an important enabling technology to improve our driving safety, traffic efficiency and intelligent driving." Chen Shanzhi, deputy general manager, chief engineer and director of the Science and Technology Commission of China Information and Communication Technology Group Co., Ltd. said that in the future, C-V2X will build the basic connectivity between people, vehicles, roads and clouds, empower the development of intelligent networked cars, smart transportation and smart cities, and realize safe, efficient, green and smart travel.
Consolidate the support of basic technology and embrace the future of digital technology
Natural language is the fundamental symbol that distinguishes human beings from animals, and it is an important tool for human beings to exchange ideas and express emotions. Making computers understand languages, that is, natural language processing, is the key to realize universal artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and the emergence of large language model has made people see the dawn of developing general artificial intelligence. Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of Baidu, said that "knowledge-enhanced key technology of large language model", which breaks through the technology of knowledge internalization and external use, has the unique technical advantages of knowledge enhancement, retrieval enhancement and dialogue enhancement, and the efficiency advantage of joint optimization of model framework, which is helpful to accelerate the upgrading of industrial intelligence and explore the development of general artificial intelligence.
Over the years, Tsinghua University and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have studied and established a set of "Basic Methods for Deep Learning of Natural Language with Multi-level and Multi-knowledge Integration" system, which has broken through some important bottlenecks of deep learning of natural language and significantly improved the basic ability of natural language processing model.
One of the functions of language is to express the cognition of the brain. How to simulate the cognitive mechanism of the brain and realize efficient and hierarchical visual content perception has always been a major challenge in the field of computer vision. Zhao Yao, director of the Institute of Information Science of Beijing Jiaotong University, introduced the project "Hierarchical Content Perception of Visual Media". "Taking visual media as the main research object, we systematically and deeply study the related theories and methods of hierarchical perception of visual content, and form a coarse-grained and fine-grained progressive perception theory and solution from image level, object level to pixel level." Zhao Yao said.
In addition, promoting the construction of digital infrastructure provides more possibilities for building a community of cyberspace destiny and promoting the progress of human civilization.
Database is the jewel in the crown of basic software, and thousands of industries are deeply dependent on database for digitalization. Professor Li Guoliang, director of the Computer Department of Tsinghua University and deputy director of CCF Database Committee, introduced the project "GaussDB: Distributed Database", saying that GaussDB is an enterprise-level database for digital infrastructure. As a new generation of distributed database, it has built key advantages of high performance, high availability, high flexibility, high intelligence and high security through multi-dimensional innovation, meeting the full-scenario, intelligent database management needs of finance, government and enterprises, and supporting the digital transformation of thousands of industries.
The security of digital information infrastructure is an important link in the construction of digital infrastructure. Li Jianhua, Dean of the Institute of Network Security Technology of Shanghai Jiaotong University, said that the project of "Efficient and Reliable Content Distribution of Large-scale Cloud-network Convergence System and Research and Development and Industrialization of Active Defense Technology" is characterized by integrating cloud-network convergence, content-driven and collaborative sharing into an integrated solution, realizing highly reliable content distribution, highly available network security and highly manageable content security.
"The future development direction of IT and information security is network immunity. The network immune IT system has led us to take another step towards a safer and more resilient digital world. " Jun Yi, vice president of government affairs and public policy in Kaspersky Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, said that "Kaspersky Automotive Security Gateway" is a security gateway solution for the next generation of automobiles, which can meet the key requirements of secure communication within the automobile architecture.