Bulletin No. 1, 2021

43 THE NEW GOSPEL ACCORDING TO A.I. 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue defeatedworld chess championGarryKasparov 1999 Sony created AIBO the robot dog, the first robot designed for home entertainment 2011 Apple released Siri ; IBM’s Watson, which understands tricky questions using NLP techniques, defeated two former champions on the US TV quiz show Jeopardy! 2010 2000 2020 2016 The CUHK Multimedia Lab was named one of the world’s pioneers in AI research at the GPU Technology Conference, being the only Asian institution to receive this recognition 2018 CUHK co-launched the Global AI Academic Alliance 2019 CUHK launched the Artificial Intelligence: Systems and Technologies (AIST) programme, Hong Kong’s first Bachelor of Engineering programme in AI 2020 Eleven CUHK engineering researchers made the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List; PhD student Xu Hao came first at the global college AI training camp DeeCamp 2021 PhDstudentGaoYifan wasnamedoneoftheTop 100ChineseNewStarsin ArtificialIntelligenceby BaiduScholar 2001 The CUHK Multimedia Laboratory, a pioneer in deep learning and computer vision, was established 2012 CUHK launched an optional intelligence stream under the undergraduate Computer Science programme 2014 NVIDIA established Hong Kong’s first CUDA Research Center at CUHK to encourage graphics processing unit (GPU) research 2015 Four CUHK engineering students came first in the ‘Huawei Cup 2015’ Intelligent Design Competition for College Students AI at CUHK Source: juergvollmer, Alan Levine