"Pinch your fingers and count" has gone from myth to reality.
The "Jiuzhan No. 3" optical quantum computing prototype came out, and the speed was 1 million times faster than that of "Jiuzhan No. 2"!The highest complexity samples it can process in a millionth of a second would take more than 20 billion years for the most powerful supercomputer in the world, FrontierIn mid-October, the internationally renowned academic journal "Physical Review Letters" published that the newly developed "Jiuzhang No. 3" quantum computing prototype successfully developed by Chinese scientists once again refreshed the world record of the technical level of optical quantum information and the superiority of quantum computing, which further consolidated China's international leading position in the field of optical quantum computing.
Computing power is the key infrastructure for the development of the digital economy and the core competitiveness in the digital era. In February 2023, the Communist Party of China issued the "Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China", which proposed to systematically optimize the layout of computing infrastructure and promote the efficient complementarity and collaborative linkage of computing power in the east and westThe Ministry of Science and Technology has launched the deployment of the national supercomputing Internet, and has built a national computing power base by connecting national supercomputing centers, regional supercomputing centers, and university supercomputing centers to form a network. The university forces behind this are the main force of computer science research and the source of major breakthroughs.
Connect the dots to form a net and ignite a spark
On the one hand, colleges and universities strive to build university-level supercomputing centers to support the development of scientific research and talent training. Since the establishment of the Supercomputing Center of the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003, many universities have built their own university-level supercomputing platforms. According to incomplete statistics, in 2022 alone, among the ** published by users of the Supercomputing Center of the University of Science and Technology of China, there are as many as 464 SCI** articles (including 38 articles in top journals such as Nature series, Science series, PRL, JACS, and CELL).
Independent innovation is the source of innovation
On the other hand, universities are the main force in basic research and independent innovation in computer science. A journey of a thousand miles, accumulated in steps;The ship of thousands of miles is made in the compass. In response to the needs of the country, Chinese colleges and universities have made great progress on the road of computer science construction. Since 1981, more than 280 colleges and universities across the country have offered computer science and technology disciplines, and it has now developed into one of the largest disciplines in science and engineering.
From 2016 to 2020, Chinese universities have won more than 20 national science and technology awards in computer science and technology, including Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, among which Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have won the National Natural Science Award. Winning the national "three awards" in the field of disciplines is undoubtedly a national authoritative recognition of the scientific research level and achievements of universities in computer science and technology.
Discipline development level data monitoring platformComprehensive monitoring of universities with computer science and technology disciplines set up by:High-end talentsplatformProjects, Achievement Awards, Academics**withTalent developmentReal-time monitoring and data analysis of disciplines are carried out to help discipline managers grasp the dynamics of disciplines in a timely manner and objectively evaluate the level of disciplines.
Among the nearly 280 colleges and universities that have set up computer science disciplines, which colleges and universities have achieved outstanding results and are worthy of reference?
What are the specific outstanding performances of these universities in terms of faculty, platform projects, major achievements, and talent training?
Zhejiang University
The history of the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University can be traced back to 1960, and the addition of the Department of Computer Science of Hangzhou University in 1998 injected new strength into the discipline. In 2017, the school's computer science and technology became a national "double first-class" construction discipline, and was rated A+ in the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, and maintained its advantage in the fifth round of discipline evaluation. In the recently released ranking of the best disciplines in China, Zhejiang University ranked third in computer science.
The computer science department of the school is well-bled in the talent team, and has created a high-level talent team led by double academicians. Pan Yunhe, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Wu Zhaohui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, can be described as the "twin stars" of computer science at Zhejiang University, and both of them stayed on to teach after graduating from the Department of Computer Science of Zhejiang University, and served as the president of Zhejiang University in 1995 and 2015 respectively.
Two high-end leaders led this first-class discipline team to work together to build the school's computer science discipline. In 2020, Professor Zhou Kun led the completion of the "Theory and Method of Real-time Computing of Realistic Graphics", which depicts the three-dimensional world realistically in real time and overcomes the "performance" bottleneck of realistic graphics computing, and this research was successfully obtainedSecond Prize of National Natural Science Award
While deeply cultivating scientific research, the professors of computer science of Zhejiang University have also not forgotten the three-foot podium, and they have also achieved fruitful results in talent training. Professor Chen Wenzhi adheres to the teaching concept of "educating people for a hundred years and building our country", and opens a precedent for the national "system ability teaching reform", and his teaching achievements have radiated to hundreds of colleges and universities, benefiting hundreds of thousands of teachers and students, and laying the foundation for talent training for the country's independent research and development of computer chips and operating systems, which has been awarded for two consecutive yearsSecond Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Many "firsts" in the history of New China were written by Northwestern Polytechnical University, among which "the first airborne computer", "the first small general-purpose computer controlled by microprograms", "the first aviation large-scale application-specific integrated circuit chip", and "the first engineering database management system chip" all came from the school's computer school. In addition to many "firsts", the computer science and technology discipline of Xi'an University of Technology has made rapid progress in recent years, with an A- in the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education in 2017, and excellent results in the fifth round of discipline evaluation, making a historic breakthrough. Ranked 7th in the 2023 Ranking of the Best Subjects in China.
According to the analysis of the double-first-class monitoring function of the discipline development level data monitoring platform, the computer science discipline of the school has made efforts in the "big team", "big platform", "big project" and "big achievement" in recent years, and has made a series of landmark achievements, and has made a good momentum of rapid development with an enterprising attitude. Its strength is on par with many "double first-class" disciplines.
In the convergence of the "big team", the school's computer discipline is introduced and cultivated at the same time to create a high-level talent team. Among them, Professor Li Xuelong has been elected as an ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow, and in 2021, he was elected to the Association for the Advancement of Art (AAAI). Intelligence) executive committee member, is the first executive committee member from Chinese mainland, and has become a fellow in the field of AI. In 2023, 46-year-old Li Xuelong will become the youngest candidate for academician of the Shaanxi Academy of Sciences.
In terms of building a "big platform", the computer discipline of the school combines the characteristics of aviation, aerospace and navigation of the school, and has been approved as three national platforms.
In terms of undertaking "big projects", the computer science discipline of the university adheres to the guidance of the frontier of science and technology and the major needs of the country, and has successively undertaken and completed a number of national scientific research projects such as the National Key Basic Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Key Project. In April 2023, it was chaired by Professor Gao WuNational Natural Science Key Project"Research on key technologies of reconfigurable pixel readout integrated circuits for high-energy resolution X-ray imaging detectors" held a kick-off meeting, the project is based on the X-ray astronomical observations emitted by solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and carries out the basic theory and related methods of the development of special pixel-type readout integrated circuits for X-ray imaging detectors, which will lay the foundation for the development of the next generation of solar exploration astronomical telescope satellite X-ray imager payloads.
With academia as the soul, we carry out high-level basic research around the direction of international cutting-edge disciplines. In recent years, the faculty of this discipline has published more than 2,000 articles in important international journals, and the number of papers published in top international journals has increased year by year, including IEEE transactions on image processing, IEEE-ACM transactions on networking, IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering, The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction has provided important support for the construction of "double first-class" computer science.
In recent years, the computer science discipline of Xi'an University of Technology has won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award, the Ministry of Education and the provincial science and technology award. In 2023, the first professor who has made original achievements and important contributions in network active cognitive security and group cross-domain (anti)intelligent decision-making was awarded3rdThe national innovation is the firstMedals
In the scientific research and education of computers, there is one person who is worth Xi learning from and remembering, that is, Mr. Xia Peisu, who is known as the "mother of Chinese computers". "What we are teachers is the 'human ladder'. She said this when talking about graduate education. This article commemorates the centenary of Mr. Xia's birth, and also encourages the "human ladders" in the computer industry that have contributed to the development of China's computer industry.
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