The 45th International Exhibition of Inventions-Geneva was held between March 29 and April 2. The exhibition was founded in 1973 under the patronage of the Swiss Federal Government and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Roughly 1,000 inventions from more than 40 countries and regions, including 83 inventions from mainland China and 14 from Hong Kong, were on display at this exhibition.The Industrial Research Institute of Zhejiang University submitted three inventions for this ex...

Founded in 1973 and supported by the Swiss Federal Government and the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva is known as the thinking man’s fiesta for modernism and innovation. Between March 29 and April 2, 2017, about 1,000 inventions from more than 40 countries and regions debuted on its 45th competition,including 83 inventions from mainland China and 14 from Hong Kong. The Industrial Research Institute of Zhejiang University were h...

 On March 30, Wu Zhaohui, President of Zhejiang University, met with a delegation from the University of York led by Vice-Chancellor and President Koen Lamberts.The two presidents held a talk about the prospects for further enhancing substantial cooperation in more fields and concurred that the two universities should set up a collaborative platform as soon as possible―ZJU-York Joint Research Center―so as to promote research partnerships. Meanwhile, both sides will expand student exchange...

 The 25th Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology-PACON, co-hosted by the Ocean College of Zhejiang University and the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was held on Zhoushan Campus on March 28-29. The conference attracted 200-plus experts and researchers from 10 nations, including China, America, Russia, Japan, Korea and Indonesia.PACON International is an organization comprised of marine scientists, engineers, industrialists, and policy-m...

In February 2017, Gentaro Watanabe who is working as a faculty member of Department of Physics and Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics at Zhejiang University, has published his research on quantum thermal machines in Physical Review Letters as an Editors' Suggestion. Gentaro Watanabe is the first and corresponding author of this paper. This paper is also featured in APS Physics Synopsis (physics news issued by the American Physical Society).Technological development has spurred the fabricat...

 On the morning of March 28, Prof. Martin Schmidt, Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, paid a visit to the International Campus of Zhejiang University. Song Yonghua, Executive Vice President of Zhejiang University and Dean of the International Joint Institute, gave a detailed introduction about the construction of the International Campus and relevant academic information. They carried out an in-depth discussion in regard to the potential cooperation between ZJU and MIT.

 Editor's note: The winners of the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards were announced at a prestigious awards ceremony held on March 14, 2017 at Olympia, UK. In its 16 Awards Categories, the Academic and Professional Publisher Award went to OECD Publishing (France) while Journal of Zhejiang University-Science (JZUS) and CSIRO Publishing (Australia) were nominated for this award. It is the first time that an academic journal has been shortlisted since the establishment ...

Hangzhou will possess its own Watson in near future. What is Watson? It is a super computer by IBM powered with artificial intelligence, which successfully diagnosed a rare type of leukemia within 10 minutes. Then what function will the Hangzhou version of Watson fulfill?Recently, Zhejiang University unveiled the establishment of Real Doctor Artificial Intelligence Research Center that will be headed by President Wu Zhaohui. It is said that the Center will construct the first open medical AI pla...

A Hangzhou version of Watson1 is about to be born. In March 26, 2017, the Smart-Doctor Artificial Intelligence Research Center established in ZJU with a generous donation of $14.5 million from the WeDoctor Group. Headed by President Zhaohui Wu, this Center will be the first open medical AI platformin China under an integrated mode.The Center will focus on critical technologies in medical AI, including clinical big data, imaging and genomics. Meanwhile, the medical AI services platform will play ...

 On March 15, Song Yonghua, Executive Vice President of Zhejiang University, met with a delegation of Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) led by President Joerg Steinbach.Song Yonghua extended his cordial welcome to the guests, introduced to them the latest development of Zhejiang University and expressed his willingness to cooperate with BTU in the field of education and research.BTU was founded in 1991. It combines outstanding international research with future-oriented teaching. A...