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G l o b a l I S Editor: Alun Preece University of Aberdeen AI Research in China: apreece@csd.abdn.ac.uk 50 Years down the Road Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences Daniel Zeng and Fei-Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Arizona ear 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of cialization will bring about a new generation of CAD/CAM Ymodern artificial intelligence research. Chinese re- technologies. China is also investing intensively in robot research, so searchers have been conducting AI research for more than we wouldn’t be surprised to see Wu’s method applied to four decades. Here, we sample some of the most promising industrial, underwater, servant, or even lunar robots. areas Chinese AI researchers are studying and predict related Intelligence science: Toward a molecular- future activities. level understanding Intelligence science intersects with a range of fields, Automatic geometrical theorem proving: including brain science, cognitive science, neural science, Beyond mathematical mechanization psychology, molecular biology, biological physics, mathe- In 1997, Wen-Tsun Wu, a mathematics professor and matical and physical sciences, computer science, and infor-