NASA計劃急速推進 亞馬遜科學家加入阿里巴巴

Internet powerhouse Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has appointed a seasoned scientist at Inc to spearhead its efforts in artificial intelligence, a move that will propel its so-called NASA plan to double up on technology research.

互聯網巨擘阿里巴巴集團任命亞馬遜公司一位經驗豐富的科學家來領導其人工智能方面的工作，此舉將推進阿里巴巴所謂的NASA計劃，加大技術研究力度。

Alibaba in March announced a major project at its first technical meeting in Hangzhou, to galvanize the group's technological capabilities, code-named NASA.

在今年3月在杭州召開的首屆技術大會上，阿里巴巴宣佈了一個旨在激勵該集團的技術能力的重大項目，代號爲NASA。

Since June, Ren Xiaofeng, former senior principal scientist at Amazon and a Chinese citizen, has taken on the role as chief scientist and deputy dean at Alibaba's Institute of Data Science and Technologies, its global research and development center, the company confirmed.

阿里巴巴方面日前確認，我國公民、原亞馬遜資深主任科學家任小楓，自6月起擔任阿里巴巴全球研發中心數據科學與技術研究院的副院長和首席科學家。

Ren is recruiting a world-class computer vision team at a fast-expanding site in Bellevue, in the US.

任小楓目前正在美國貝爾維尤一處高速發展的基地招募世界一流的計算機視覺團隊。

In his four years at Amazon, Ren was the lead scientist at Amazon Go, using computer vision and machine learning, to transform retailing.

在亞馬遜任職的4年間，任小楓是Amazon Go的首席科學家，利用計算機視覺和機器學習來重構零售業。

Prior to Amazon, Ren also had deep experience in vision-related projects at Intel Lab.

在此之前，任小楓在英特爾實驗室也有着視覺相關項目的豐富經驗。

Alibaba said that Ren's coming onboard indicated an accelerated pace to carry out the NASA project, proposed by founder Jack Ma.

阿里巴巴方面稱，任小楓的加入顯示了阿里巴巴正在加快推動由公司創始人馬雲提出的NASA計劃。