DAMO Academy (DAMO Academy) is a global research institute announced on October 11, 2017 by Alibaba. DAMO Academy is an institute dedicated to exploring the unknown of science and technology, driven by the vision of humanity, and is a scientific research institution set up by Alibaba at multiple points around the world, based on the research of basic science, disruptive technology and applied technology.
One: The third generation of semiconductors, represented by gallium nitride and silicon carbide, is ushering in an explosion of applications.
Third-generation semiconductor gallium nitride, silicon carbide via, mainly used for industrial charging, 5G high-frequency devices, renewable energy and energy storage field of power. With the gradual explosion of the new energy industry, the third generation semiconductor will also usher in explosive growth.
Two: After the "quantum hegemony" era, quantum error correction and practical advantages become the core proposition.
Chinese scientists have built the world's first optical quantum computer, "Nine Chapters", which opens a new era of quantum computing. This is a major breakthrough in the field after Google released its quantum computer last year.
The Dharma Institute Quantum Laboratory has completed the development of the first controllable quantum bit, realizing a breakthrough in the preparation of "quantum chips" from 0 to 1. This will allow the quantum chip to have a real physical carrier. The Dharma Institute's quantum lab will focus on the research and development of high-precision quantum bits, which is a key step towards a general-purpose quantum computer
Three: Carbon-based technology breakthroughs to accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
Carbon-based materials, including zero-dimensional fullerene, one-dimensional carbon nanotubes, two-dimensional graphene, three-dimensional graphite and diamond, etc., of which, carbon nanotubes and graphene with excellent electrical properties, light transmittance and ductility, is considered to be the "heavenly choice" for flexible electronics materials. Some manufacturers have already announced the development of flexible screens, and I believe that flexible screens will soon become the next outbreak of cell phones.
Four: AI improves the efficiency of drug and vaccine development.
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is Artificial Intelligence, which is the study of human intelligence, and simulation and extension of the emerging science and technology. the research areas of AI technology include robotics, language recognition, image recognition, natural language processing and expert systems, etc. The purpose of AI is to hopefully allow computers to learn and think like humans. The combination of AI and clinical research on vaccines and drugs can reduce duplication of effort and time consumption, improve R&D efficiency, and greatly promote the universalization of medical services and drugs.
V: Brain-computer interfaces to help humans transcend biological limits.
This year Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink showed off a pig implanted with a Neuralink device called Gertrude, which was implanted two months ago and is in good shape. This event pushed brain-computer interfaces into the limelight. Although brain-computer interfaces are still far from being practical, as the key core technology for a new generation of human-computer interaction and human-computer hybrid intelligence, brain-computer interfaces have played an important role in driving the development of neural engineering processes.
Six: Data processing for "autonomy and self-evolution".
Now that we have entered the era of big data, more and more people are joining the industry of big data analytics to analyze big data and get a lot of intelligent, in-depth, and valuable information through analysis. The attributes, quantity, velocity, and diversity of big data present an ever-increasing complexity, so the analysis methods of big data become especially important in the field of big data. Intelligent methods to achieve automatic optimization of the data management system is the inevitable choice for the future development of data processing. Artificial intelligence and machine learning methods are gradually being widely used in intelligent hot and cold data layering, anomaly detection, intelligent modeling, resource mobilization, parameter tuning, pressure test generation, indexing recommendations and other fields. This is a great opportunity to realize the "autonomy and self-evolution" of data processing, which will effectively reduce the management costs of data computation, processing, storage, and operation and maintenance.
VII: Cloud Native reshapes the IT technology system.
Cloud computing has entered the second half, how to combine cloud computing with different business scenarios in depth? How to make the technology really work for the enterprise? How to save the cost of enterprise IT deployment?
Breaking through the traditional IT development environment, cloud-native architecture takes full advantage of the distributed, scalable, and flexible nature of cloud computing to more efficiently apply and manage all types of cloud computing resources in heterogeneous hardware and environments. Alibaba has established a dedicated Cloud Native department to research and develop this technology.
VIII: Agriculture enters the era of data intelligence.
Digital technology represented by the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc., is y integrated with the agricultural industry, opening up the whole chain process of the agricultural industry. Agriculture will say goodbye to "rely on the sky" to eat, enter the era of intelligent agriculture.
Nine: Industrial Internet, from a single point of intelligence to global intelligence.
The current industrial intelligence is still mainly to solve the fragmentation needs, automotive, consumer electronics, branded apparel, iron and steel, cement, chemical and other manufacturing industries with a good foundation of information technology, the industrial Internet will run through the supply chain, production, assets, logistics, sales and other aspects of the realization of the enterprise production decision-making closed loop of the global intelligent applications.
Ten: Intelligent operation center to become the future city standard.
The acceleration of urbanization has given cities unprecedented economic, political, and technological power, and cities are inevitably pushed to the center of the world stage, playing a leading role. At the same time, cities are facing challenges in terms of environmental pollution, traffic congestion, energy constraints, housing shortage, unemployment, and disease. Under the new environment, how to solve the many problems brought by urban development and realize sustainable development has become an important proposition for urban planning and construction. In this context, "smart city" has become a feasible way to solve urban problems. Smart city refers to the use of a variety of information technology or innovative concepts, the city's systems and services through, integration, in order to enhance the efficiency of the use of resources, optimize the city's management and services, as well as to improve the quality of life of citizens. It uses information and communication technology means to sense, analyze, and integrate key information of the core system of city operation, and make intelligent response to the needs of people's livelihood and other needs, so as to create a better city life for human beings. The great speed of smart city construction will drive the rapid development of the local economy, will also drive the rapid development of satellite navigation, Internet of Things, intelligent transportation, smart grid, cloud computing, software services and other industries, bringing new development opportunities for related industries. China's smart city development into the scale of the promotion stage, the state encourages the development of application model innovation, to promote the construction of smart cities.
With the construction and promotion of smart cities around the world, data management and analysis of smart cities has become a major challenge, and smart operation centers will unify city systems and provide overall smart governance capabilities, thus becoming the digital infrastructure of the future city.
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