Musk at the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Congress
On February 9, local time, according to the official website of the National Academy of Engineering, Tesla founder Elon Musk was elected as a member of the American Academy of Engineering. The reason for the selection was identified as SpaceX's achievement. As the CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, Musk is believed to have achieved breakthroughs in the reusability of rockets and the design and manufacture of new energy systems.
In the future, we will have to call the world's richest man "Academician Ma".
After learning the news, Musk posted that he was very grateful.
This year, the National Academy of Engineering announced a total of 111 new members and 22 new overseas members, and among the 22 elected overseas academicians, Dr. Zhang Hongjiang, chairman of the Beijing Zhiyuan Research Institute, was among them.
Founded in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering is a non-profit, non-governmental organization affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). NAE is responsible for carrying out the engineering projects needed by the country, oriented by education and research, recognizing and affirming the value and achievements of engineers. Up to now, the total number of national engineering in the United States has reached 2388, and the number of overseas academicians has reached 310.
How to describe Elon Musk?
In December 2021, Musk was named Time's 2021 Person of the Year. Time magazine used 11 words to describe him as a crazy mix of "clowns, geniuses, leaders, visionaries, industrialists, performers, scoundrels, Edison, p.t. Barnum, Carnegie, and Dr. Manhattan" who aspired to save the planet and give humanity a new home.
To date, he has founded PayPal, OpenAI, Tesla, rocket company SpaceX, brain-computer interface company Neuralink, underground tunnel The Broing Company, solar power generation company SolarCity and other companies.
In addition, among the 22 newly elected overseas academicians announced by the National Academy of Engineering, there are two Chinese mainland scholars, namely Fang Daining, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president of Beijing Institute of Technology, and expert in the field of materials and structural mechanics, and Zhang Hongjiang, one of the founders of Microsoft Research Asia, chairman of the Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, and expert in artificial intelligence and multimedia computing.
Editor: Shen Xiangsha
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