新思路大学英语综合教程第二册第三版课件Book 2 - Unit 5 Section B.pptx

section B Part 1Lead-inUnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Self-driving cars,also known as driverless cars,computer-driven cars,or wheeled mobile robots,are intelligent cars that achieve unmanned driving through computer systems.Chinese autonomous driving companies are revealing their latest products and ambitions,expanding the frontiers of the booming sector and promising cost-effective and worry-free mobility in the near futureUnit5Background InformationPart 2UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you know about Robin Lin?Robin Li,founder,board chairman and CEO of Baidu,is fully responsible for the strategic planning and operation management of the company.Before founding Baidu,Robin Li had been a top-ranked search engine engineer in the world.His“Hyperlinks Analysis”technical patent is one of the fundamental inventions that set the development trend and direction of modern search engines.Unit5Unit5UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you know about Robin Lin?Robin Li has won awards including the“CCTV China Economic Figure of 2005”and one of the“30 Prominent People in the 30 Years Reform and Opening Up.”He was also selected as the“Best Business Leader”and“Most Influential Business Leader in China”by American Business Weekly and Fortune.In 2011,he ranked 95th in the Forbes Global List with an assets worth of$9.4 billion,becoming the richest man in China.Unit5Unit5UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you know about Robin Lin?Robin Li was born in Yangquan,Shanxi province,in 1968.Robin Li graduated from Peking University in 1991,majoring in information management.He later completed a postgraduate course for computer science with a Masters Degree at the University of Buffalo,the State University of New York.Unit5Unit5UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you know about Robin Lin?In the early stages of the development of search engines,Robin Li,as one of the earliest researchers in the world,created ESP technology and successfully applied it to the search engine of INFOSEEK/GO.COM.The image search engine from GO.COM is one of his technical innovations with a great application value.At the end of 1999,bearing a dream of“changing peoples life with science and technology,”Robin Li returned to China and founded Baidu.After years of effort,Baidu has become the most popular Chinese website in China,the largest Chinese search engine and the largest Chinese website.Unit5Unit5UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you know about Baidu Inc.overview?Our mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology.Founded in 2000 as a search engine platform,we were an early adopter of artificial intelligence in 2010 to make content discovery on the Internet easier.We have also used“Baidu Brain,”our core AI technology engine,to develop new AI businesses.Today,Baidu is already a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation.We are one of the very few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack,encompassing an infrastructure consisting of AI chips,deep learning framework,core AI capabilities,such as natural language processing,knowledge graph,speech recognition,computer vision and augmented reality,as well as an open AI platform to facilitate wide application and use.We have put our leading AI capabilities into our products and services,as well as innovative use cases.Unit5Unit5UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you know about Baidu Inc.overview?Over the past two decades,we have built a diversified portfolio of products and services with large total market opportunities.Our portfolio of products and services is accessed by over one billion devices monthly,and our business spans across an ecosystem of hundreds of millions of users,millions of developers and hundreds of thousands of enterprises.Our flagship product,Baidu App,which is the No.1 search-plus-feed app in China,reached 544 million MAUs in December 2020.Our usage of a strong technology foundation to support an open platform business model not only draws more participants into our ecosystem,but also adds richness and vibrancy to our ecosystem,strengthening the long-term prospect and vitality of our business overall.Unit5Unit5UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you know about Baidu Inc.overview?Our mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology.Founded in 2000 as a search engine platform,we were an early adopter of artificial intelligence in 2010 to make content discovery on the Internet easier.We have also used“Baidu Brain,”our core AI technology engine,to develop new AI businesses.Today,Baidu is already a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation.We are one of the very few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack,encompassing an infrastructure consisting of AI chips,deep learning framework,core AI capabilities,such as natural language processing,knowledge graph,speech recognition,computer vision and augmented reality,as well as an open AI platform to facilitate wide application and use.We have put our leading AI capabilities into our products and services,as well as innovative use cases.Unit5Unit5UnitUnit1BOOKBOOK2Do you 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