Yao Qizhi Is the Editor-in-chief, and the Regular High School AI Textbook Is Here

Tsinghua University recently announced that the AI textbook "Artificial Intelligence (High School Edition)" designed for high school students will be officially published in September 2020. The textbook is edited by Yao Qizhi, and the editorial board is composed of teachers from Tsinghua's "Yao Class" and "Intelligent Class". The content of the textbook is written in combination with the unique insights of these experts and years of educational experience. What kind of impact will this textbook bring?

On January 7, 2020, the publishing signing ceremony of "Artificial Intelligence (High School Edition)" was held at Tsinghua University. Yao Qizhi served as the editor-in-chief of the book. He led a number of senior industry professors from the "Yao Class" and "Zhi Class" to complete the writing of the book.

With labels from industry giants such as Tsinghua University and Yao Qizhi, the emergence of this book will undoubtedly bring the most significant impact to the field of high school textbooks.

Content that has been repeatedly researched and has gathered the strengths of many people

According to the news released today, the book "Artificial Intelligence (High School Edition)" has a total of 9 chapters, starting from the most basic knowledge, arranged from shallow to deep, and finally leading to some of the current mainstream fields.

The chapters are:Mathematics and programming foundations, search, machine learning, linear regression, decision trees and random forests, neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning.

At the same time, the design of the textbook also focuses on hands-on practice. Each chapter is equipped with exercises and programming experiments so that students can personally experience the practical applications involved in the course during the learning process.

Regarding the specific content format, Yao Qizhi said that the book will start with the development history of artificial intelligence and introduce the basic background of artificial intelligence. In addition to exercises and programming practices, it is also equipped with exclusive learning website resources in order to reasonably quantify the teaching content and provide assistance to students' subsequent in-depth learning.

Yao Qizhi also said that the book "Artificial Intelligence (High School Edition)"The editorial board combined the perspectives of experts in the field with many years of undergraduate education and teaching experience to write this book.The editorial team has discussed the chapters and knowledge points dozens of times and has carried out systematic design, striving to understand the principles and master the specific forms in the process of learning.

Authoritative textbook finally published to combat evil spirits

Since 2018, relevant textbooks have begun to emerge, and the release of these textbooks is also promoting the development of basic education in artificial intelligence in primary and secondary schools.

But on the other hand, many parents have questioned whether teaching materials with varying quality of content can bring about positive promotion.

For this reason, publishing formal scientific textbooks will play a vital role in improving high school AI education, and this book "Artificial Intelligence (High School Edition)" seems to have been created for this purpose.

All-Star Editorial Board: Yao Qizhi leads many big names

Although the book has not been officially released, its signing ceremony has attracted close attention from all walks of life. One of the reasons why it is so popular is that its editorial team is composed of well-known big names in the industry.

Editor-in-chief Yao Qizhi is a world-renowned computer scientist. He won the Turing Award in 2000 and holds multiple academicianships: Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Member of the American Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently a professor at the Center for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University.

In addition to this super-famous editor-in-chief, the rest of the editorial board are all professors from the Institute of Cross-Disciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University, including the excellent teaching teams of the "Yao Class" and the "Smart Class": the deputy editor-in-chief is Huang Longbo, the head teacher of the Smart Class, and the editorial board consists of well-known professors such as Gao Yang, Li Jian, and Ma Xiongfeng.

The members of the editorial team have a deep and comprehensive understanding of the foundation and frontiers of AI disciplines, and they have also been deeply involved in the research and teaching of AI for a long time. With such a luxurious editorial team, the compiled textbooks will definitely be fully guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence really starts from childhood

With the rapid development of AI, the education and training of relevant talents has become an extremely important part. All of this is being carried out in an orderly manner under the promotion of relevant policies.

The spark started in July 2017 when the State Council issued Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, which mentioned the need to set up artificial intelligence-related courses in primary and secondary schools. In the following two years, several documents proposed guidelines for carrying out AI education in primary and secondary schools.

At the beginning of 2018, the Ministry of Education released "General High School Curriculum Plan and Chinese Language and Other Subject Curriculum Standards (2017 Edition)", artificial intelligence, big data processing and other related fields have officially entered the new curriculum standards of the "General High School Information Technology Curriculum Standards".

Starting from the fall semester in September 2019, some provinces and cities that implemented the comprehensive reform pilot of the college entrance examination took the lead in implementing new courses and using new textbooks. AI has officially entered high school classrooms.

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