Aiming at the nation's important demands, with the development strategy of "one core and two platforms", the Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems (CICS) takes developing world-leading intelligent computers as the core mission and aims at establishing a research platform of new theories, architectures and methodologies for building intelligent computers and key chips such as domain-specific processors, with the goal of establishing a promising and attractive platform for excellent talents in the area of intelligent computing systems. Adhere to the route of "application driven and innovation driven", giving full play to the unique advantages of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in the computer architecture area, such as the academic reputation, achievements in designing big machines and large-scale chips, the attraction for talented researchers, and high-level international cooperation, according to the nation's planning and strategic demands in the intelligent computer area, CICS is striving to be a new intelligent computer research team with prominent discipline characteristics and influence in the world, by making original and disruptive innovations in the fundamental theories and architectures for designing intelligent computers.