Recently, the FTC Technology Challenge 2014-2015 season (FTC) for the 14-18 year old high school students kicked off in China. The event organizer FIRST® is a non-profit organization founded by the famous American inventor Dean Carmen (the inventor of the power balance car Segway Segway). Recently, the agency announced that Qualcomm has become its strategic partner - the organization's highest sponsor level, in recognition of Qualcomm's long-term volunteer service and financial support for FIRST events. The organizers expect that the FTC Technology Challenge will attract more than 300 teams in eight competitions in China.
Qualcomm and the organizers expand the China Division
For a long time, FIRST has hosted a robot challenge for all ages and has a wide range of influences around the world. In the 2014-2015 season, Qualcomm will work closely with FIRST and provide the following support: Promote technology education in China and Hong Kong, expand the number of FTC teams in China, and promote robot games to more cities in China. In addition, Qualcomm and FIRST jointly launched the “FTC Qualcomm Small Reporter Contestâ€, which is open to all students, with the aim of “inspiration and cognition of science and technology†and “noble professionalism†advocated by the event. More Chinese teenagers. Students and their mentors who won the "Little Reporter's Contest" will join the FTC China's final winning team in the 2015 FIRST Championship Finals in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, as a special correspondent. Report it.
FIRST was founded to inspire the next generation's inspiration and enthusiasm for science, engineering and invention. The founder, Dean Carmen, is an inventor and entrepreneur. He once said: "The world is not a conservative person. Subversive geeks." This coincides with Qualcomm's philosophy. Qualcomm has long been committed to supporting innovation and talent development in the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Qualcomm has regularly sponsored FIRST events since 2007, including providing guidance to participating teams, subsidizing non-employee instructors, and supporting the expansion of the US Division. In April of this year, Qualcomm Executive Chairman Paul Jacobs and Chief Technology Officer Matt Grob were invited to participate in the FIRST World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and received the award from Dean Carmen. The Founder Awards recognize Qualcomm's long-standing commitment to support the FIRST Robotics Challenge.
Recently, Qualcomm announced that it will once again become a special sponsor of the 2015 FIRST Championship and announced that it will strengthen its support for the promotion and development of the international K-12 robot STEM learning organization, including the China FTC Robotics Challenge, participating teams and events. stand by. Qualcomm executive vice president and chief technology officer Matt Grob said: "Qualcomm is committed to nurturing future inventors and strongly supports and encourages young people from all over the world to participate in various STEM projects. We are also very happy to be The FTC Technology Challenge is helping to develop in China."
(2014 FIRST World Championship Live Scene)
"With all the cool things"
In fact, Qualcomm, the global wireless leader, is essentially an invention company. Qualcomm believes that by supporting the STEM learning program, especially encouraging young people to work in the STEM field at school and at work, it will inspire a new generation of innovators and inventors.
In the era of universal connectivity, Qualcomm pioneered the concept of “sixth sense of numbersâ€, in which mobile devices can perceive the surrounding environment and simultaneously interact with connected people, things, and objects in real time. At present, the company's processors and various innovative technologies have provided computing and connectivity capabilities for billions of smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, set-top boxes, air conditioners, rice cookers, lights, smart glasses, smart watches, cameras, and more. Of course, even cooler things include cars, robots, and more.
(Qualcomm shows robot Snapdragon Rover, built-in Opteron processor and Zeroth brain-inspired computing technology)
Earlier, Qualcomm Neuromorphic Chips were selected as one of the world's top ten breakthrough technologies in the 2014 MIT Technology Review. The project was referred to by Qualcomm as the Zeroth brain-inspired computing technology, a new computing architecture that Qualcomm's R&D team has been developing over the past few years to break through the traditional model. They want to create a new computing processor that mimics the human brain and nervous system, enabling the terminal to have embedded cognitive knowledge driven by the brain. In other words, Qualcomm is blurring the boundaries between silicon and biological systems, and your smartphone and other terminals will anticipate what you want to do next. "Bionic learning," "making the terminal able to observe and perceive the world like humans", "creation and definition of the neural processing unit (NPU)" are the three goals of Zeroth. Recently, Qualcomm's Snapdragon Rover with its built-in Snapdragon 600 processor uses Zerot technology.
(Figure: Qualcomm robot Snapdragon Micro Rover, built-in Opteron processor)
The Zeroth Brain Inspired Computation Project is one of the most important R&D projects within Qualcomm to advance the development of robotics. A very interesting and inspiring truth story: Qualcomm Labs employee Kiet Chau, who participated in the Zeroth brain-inspired computing project, was a contestant at the FIRST Championship in his early years. In his last year of high school, he designed a robotic reconnaissance application for all participating teams. Through this application, the team can collect data from the robot and understand the performance of other teams to develop a strategy. He said, "A VP of Qualcomm saw this application and immediately let me participate in the interview of the company's summer internship..."; in addition, there is a "stimulus" data for your participation, that is, "every 9 MIT students One has participated in the FIRST competition!"
Finally, it is appropriate to use this slogan as a conclusion, that is, "Let us be with all the cool things!".
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