It is an admission ticket for independent enrollment in colleges and universities.

It is a stepping stone for children to enter the ideal university.

This is NOIP.

In the era of artificial intelligence, the demand for talents is imminent!

20 17 is called the first year of artificial intelligence development, and artificial intelligence, which was born more than 60 years ago, finally ushered in blowout development. On 20 17, the state announced that it would seize the commanding heights of artificial intelligence in the world in 2030 and set up artificial intelligence courses in primary and secondary schools! There has been a worldwide upsurge of artificial intelligence technology revolution, but a large number of artificial intelligence talents are needed for basic research, technology research and development and application. At present, China is actually facing a huge gap in this respect.

The 20 17 global white paper on artificial intelligence talents shows that by the end of 20 17 and 10, the demand gap of artificial intelligence talents in China has reached one million. In the first 65,438+00 months of 2065,438+07, the demand for AI talents nearly doubled on the basis of 2065,438+06 and 5.3 times on the basis of 2065,438+05. The compound annual growth rate of talent demand exceeds 200%, and there is a shortage of talents in the domestic AI field.

Under the background of the times, the significance of training Olympic talents in informatics (NOIP)

What efforts do we need to make up for the huge talent gap in artificial intelligence? From the national strategic planning, we are also vigorously promoting the overall scientific literacy of young people. Experts believe that artificial intelligence needs a large number of computer professionals who know algorithms. Informatics Olympic Games, as a very important channel to train computer talents, has once again become a hot topic that parents can't avoid under the realistic background.

Popular science classroom:

The National Informatics Olympiad (NOIP) is one of the five leagues recognized by universities for independent enrollment, and winning provincial or national awards is of great significance for participating in independent enrollment in universities such as Qingbei.

Since 1995 was held, it has been held every year by China Computer Federation. Competition programming language: Pascal, C, C++ (version free Pascal, Dev C++).

The competition is divided into three groups: improvement, popularization and introduction. Each group is divided into two stages: preliminary and semi-final. The preliminary contest is a written test, which is about the basic knowledge of information technology and programming. The rematch is computer programming, and its content is algorithm design and programming problem solving.

NOIP is organized by special commissioners from different provinces and cities at the same time. Unified national syllabus and unified examination papers. Students from junior high school, senior high school or other secondary specialized schools can sign up.

The league is divided into two stages: preliminary and semi-final. The preliminary contest examines the general and practical knowledge of computer science, mainly written test. The rematch is programmed and must be debugged on the computer. Participants in the preliminary round must reach a certain score to qualify for the semi-finals.

The league is divided into two groups, the popularization group and the improvement group, with different difficulties, aiming at junior high school and senior high school students respectively. Junior high school students can participate in the improvement group, but it is more difficult to improve the group.

Children's programming is a new track, which will activate a new field and attract the attention of capitalists. It is undoubtedly a great welfare for a group of unemployed young people and transports a large number of talents for the field of artificial intelligence.

It is understood that the independent enrollment policies of top universities such as the resumption of diplomatic relations in northern Qinghai are also obviously biased towards informatics talents. Around the National Informatics Winter Camp at the beginning of the year, Tsinghua and Peking University launched a "war of grabbing people" in Changsha. Fudan University has opened up a separate rule for informatics players, and in the 20 18 self-enrollment brochure, it gave the green light to the players who scored more than 360 points in the NOIP Informatics Improvement Group competition.

Dozens of universities, such as Tsinghua, Peking University, Chinese University of Science and Technology, Beihang University and Shanghai Jiaotong University, all mentioned the requirements of winning the Informatics Olympics in the 20 18 self-enrollment brochure.

Take Tsinghua Peking University as an example, only 20% of the students are admitted with bare marks, but students with special skills in informatics enter famous schools early. At the Informatics Experience Camp of Tsinghua Peking University held in early June this year, a group of junior high school students were admitted to Tsinghua Peking University in advance, and the actual number of contracts signed was amazing.

Among the 50 freshmen who entered Yao Ban, Tsinghua, 46 were competition bulls.

According to the list of 50 freshmen of 20 18 in Yao Ban, Tsinghua, 46 of them are competition bulls, and 26 of them are informatics Olympians, including 3 players from IOI (International Informatics Olympiad) and 19 gold medal players from NOI (National Youth Informatics Olympiad).

The talents trained by Informatics Olympics will be the talents urgently needed by artificial intelligence.

What kind of talents does Informatics Olympic Games train?

For students who participate in the Informatics Olympics, they should first learn a programming language Pascal/C/c++ (C++will be used after 2022), and then learn basic algorithms and data structures to solve practical problems. The purpose is to cultivate students' mathematical thinking, computational thinking and logical thinking and improve their comprehensive ability to solve problems.

And these are the basic knowledge of artificial intelligence. Learning these will make it easier for you to walk in the artificial intelligence industry. At present, because informatics has entered the college entrance examination, it is absolutely helpful to learn these things for the college entrance examination, as we have said in the previous case of resuming diplomatic relations between Qing and North China.

The winners of Informatics Olympics are all industry elites. How did they do it?

As mentioned earlier, most of the winners of the Informatics Olympics were sent to prestigious schools, but what did these champions do? What will they do after graduation?

For example:

1. In the field of information retrieval (search engine, recommendation engine, input method), Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan (IOI 1996 gold medal), as a leading figure, is now leading sogou into the era driven by comprehensive artificial intelligence.

2. Also in the field of information retrieval, today's headline "caught" Wu Yi (IOI 20 10 silver medal) who published many papers at IJCAI, AAAI and other summits and improved the logical reasoning of artificial intelligence by 60~ 100 times.

3. In the field of computer vision, under the authorization of Face ++ CTO Tang Wenbin (NOI Gold Medal), Yang Mu (IOI Gold Medal in 2007), Yang Yi (IOI Gold Medal in 2007) and Zhou Erjin (IOI Silver Medal in 2009, IOI 20 1 1 Gold Medal), they gathered successively.

4. In the field of unmanned driving, pony. ai CTO Lou Tiancheng (IOI2004 Gold Award) invited the only Chinese Turing Award winner as a consultant, leading experts including Qi Zichao (IOI2009 Gold Award), (20 16 Gold Award) and Du (2065438+).

5. In the field of enterprise intelligent decision-making, the "Fourth Paradigm" founded by Dai Wenyuan (the silver prize of NOI, the global champion of ACM-ICPC) and his partners is making great strides in this industry. Many people in this team used to be elites in the NOIP/NOI arena.

6. In Microsoft Research Institute AI, Zhu Ze Garden (IOI Gold Award in 2005 and IOI Gold Award in 2006), which won five papers in ICML 20 17, also made contributions in the field of artificial intelligence.

7. Chen (gold medal in 2007), Chen (gold medal in 2008), Rong Rong (gold medal in 2004), Kelly Y Zhou (gold medal in IOI in 2005), Gao Yihan (gold medal in IOI in 2009) and many other great informatics Olympians are doing theoretical research for artificial intelligence in academic circles.

Next, let's take a look at a recent case of the popular "Tsinghua Yao Ban" Grand Slam champion:

Qiao Mingda, who walked to Yao Ban, Tsinghua on 20 14, was once a Grand Slam winner of Informatics Olympics. The record is as follows:

During his stay abroad, he successively obtained

20 1 1 Gold Award in Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympic Competition

20 12 first prize of national senior high school mathematics league.

20 12 gold medal in the national informatics Olympic competition

20 13 international informatics Olympic gold medal (second in the world)

20 13 "Baidu star" programming contest won the first place in the finals.

He was sent to Oxford University, Sydney University of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University to participate in the research of machine learning theory.

Academician Yao Qizhi, academician of China Academy of Sciences and president of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Information of Tsinghua University, said: To achieve the goal of the world artificial intelligence innovation center in 2030, China needs to solve the problem of lack of theory in the development of artificial intelligence.