A consolidated listing of the Pixmoving offerings of 2018 is listed at Future of AV Open Source See the movie about Pixmoving at: Robo Cars of China .
Pixmoving Page is online at WWW.TOURGUIZHOU.COM
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A Message from the Publisher
March 2, 2019
To: Whom it may concern
From: John S. Porter, Publisher of WWW.TOURGUIZHOU.COM
Re: Support for www.tourguizhou.com and the video: “Robo Cars of China”
The Tour Guizhou system of web blogs and chats is intended to create space online information about Guizhou people (including foreigners) our shared culture, food, education, natural beauty, technology, doing business, wine, minorities, and many other things. I have been coming to Guizhou, helping teach English and sharing the culture of Guizhou. I like informing western, English speaking, peoples about Guizhou. I have been coming to Guizhou for nineteen years (first visiting Guizhou to teach in the year 2000) and I have actively promoted Guizhou online through the www.tourguizhou.com web site for the last seven years. There is also a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/tourguizhou/
My background in the USA has included data processing, community leadership, and, as a community leader, I helped create a transportation authority which provides bus transportation to the Grand Traverse Bay (GTBay) region. GTBay is in Northern Michigan of the USA. For a period of time, I was Chairman of the Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA). That is why I am so excited about the Big Data and transportation innovation in Guizhou. I recognize its potential in bring us all closer together by advancing the quality of our lives, not just in Guizhou, but also the world.
The video “Robo Cars of China” is an attempt to merge many of my ideas about China and the West into a coherent concept of cooperation, friendly competition, and inspiring young people to engage the new technologies. I want the young people to prepare themselves in an enthusiastic and collaborative way. A key element to this cooperation is “Technology English”. As engineers work together, they soon discover that their English teachers didn’t prepare them for collaborations on technical issues using English. English teachers are typically not engineers. For almost a year I have worked on this video about Guiyang and its robotic car basic research.
The video is staged in Guiyang, promoting Guiyang to the tech community, but also it teaches “Technology” English. It blends technology English with an interesting cooperation and competition, all taking place in Guiyang. It is an English teaching document, a technical document, and an effort to inspire the young. It is also a promotion of Guiyang, China, and the cooperation that is growing between and among different countries.
The Tourguizhou web site stresses the lifestyle in Guiyang which is geared to young professionals who want to live in an interesting and progressive culture. Guiyang combines tourist attractions with a progressive technology culture. I have enjoyed telling this story on the web, and the video is my most ambitious effort yet. Unfortunately, I have been forced into retirement by operation of law. At age 68 I am faced with returning to my home country to find work in order to sustain myself. My work in promoting technology and Guizhou will draw to a close unless I find support from the Chinese government and the Chinese businesses that value collaboration with the West. I think Westerners should also have an interest in promoting this kind of cooperation as well. Any thoughts on grant ideas or other support are requested and appreciated.
Robo Cars of China
This video ties together many years of my activity here in China. I have multiple objectives in the creation of this video:
- Inspire young people to get involved in technology.
- Teach “Technology English” in a relevant format.
- Allow English learners to listen and “catch” informal English conversation.
- Introduce Guiyang/Guizhou as a legitimate technology center in China. It is also known as China’s “Big Data Valley”
- Introduce the “Pixmoving” company as a small research company with big ideas for Autonomous Vehicles (AV).
- Demonstrate how innovative competition can take place between people of countries from all over the world, making the world a better place through technology. Vigorous competition and friendships between countries is good.Please contact me at USAInfo@yahoo.com with your comments.
Guiyang Jazz
This is Guiyang Jazz. Martin, an Australian, has loved music all his life. He plays with Chinese musicians and brings his jazzy friends up from Australia to play at the Obsession Jazz bar, on Wenchang Beilu. Live Jazz ( Alt Link ) . It is right across from the Wenchang Castle in the old part of town. It is a multicultural experience with Chinese and foreigners together in the same Jazz Bar venue.
Martin has drawn from many parts of the globe, including from England to Australia. Guiyang Jazz, like all Jazz has it roots in the south of the USA. Martin even pulls in Americans to play drums, horns, and one of my favorites, the zydeco. 
The zydeco is sometimes referred to as a Louisiana washboard Zydeco ( Alt Link ).
Guiyang jazz seems to be coming up in the jazz world. Guiyang Report
Market for Self Driving Cars
The market for self driving cars (Autonomous Vehicles) is growing rapidly and is particularly active in the USA and Europe. Guiyang, as referenced elsewhere on this site (see: http://www.tourguizhou.com/guiyang-automated-vehicle-project/) is ideally suited to promote this technology in China. Here is what is happening in the USA and Europe: https://www.vmrnewswire.com/self-driving-car-new-future-car-travelers/
2017 Big Data Expo
A racing car simulator. The screen had a race course.
The 2017 Big Data Expo was a bit of everything in technology and was heavy on digital imaging (healthcare related), major database systems (Finance related) , and VR (Virtual Reality). It seemed a bit light on 
robotics and motion control, which is a key component of AV (Automated Vehicles). The Alibaba AV was on 
display in it’s Big Data Expo booth, but without promotional information, at least in English. The car looked like a regular car and just sat there. On Sunday, the staff was unavailable to answer questions about it. The 2017 Big Data Expo was a big hit.
On Sunday, the last day, there was a big line. It was boring outside in the line. Sitting on Daddy’s shoulders made it a bit more tolerable.
There were a variety of classes and seminars on technical topics of interest.
Virtual Reality (VR) children were playing with their preferred laser guns.
The exhibits and exhibitors improved significantly over the prior two Expos, which I attended. The government owned businesses were not so prominent, and booths were smaller. The visuals were extraordinary. Computer generated graphics were at their best in this conference and the English materials were generally very good, in contrast to last year. The content was much richer, even though the booths were smaller.
One wall was dedicated to the Exhibitor Logos . . . a who’s who of technology.
The 2017 Big Data Expo had a distinctly international flavor, with many of the world corporations represented.
Participating companies are prominent in both China and the world tech industries. Many have corporate offices in Guiyang. One of the Expo sponsors, Guiyang Truck Alliance Company is a logistics company coordinating China truck deliveries. It has corporate headquarters in Guiyang, and is the “leading internet plus logistics information platform in China”. This demonstrates the commitment of China to the Guiyang based “Big Data Valley”. World corporations represented at the 2017 Big Data Expo include Tencent, Oracle, Foxconn, Qualcomm, Dell, JD.com, Huawei, and Alibaba.It is noteworthy that the term “Guiyang” was dropped from this year’s Expo title. The Expo is simply “2017 Big Data Expo”. It reflects a focus of China on Guiyang as the center of “Big Data” activity. Last year China supported several “Big Data” branded conferences, but this year it seems that Guiyang is the the only one. It is the prominent “Big Data” host. This bodes well for Guiyang based data companies.
The 2017 Big Data Expo catalogue .
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Guiyang International Big Data Expo 2017
The 2017 Guiyang Bid Data Expo promises to be the best ever.
See the Youtube presentation: Click Here
See coverage of the 2016 Big Data Expo:
Big Data Valley – National Coverage of Guiyang Meet
Guiyang aspires to be the “Big Data Valley” of China, with a high tech expo highlighting many of the developments here. China Daily, USA Edition, has complete coverage at: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-05/26/content_25479827.htm
Big Data Conference of Guiyang had VR 3D Glasses
My students Wang Min and Bai Zhong Jun attended the conference and helped me talk to the exhibitors. 
Wang Min loved to play with the Virtual Reality Three Dimensional Glasses. When you view the world through these glasses, it takes you to a differenct world and a different reality. When you turn your body around, you are looking at a different world behind you, but in fact you are standing in the middle of a conference.
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- Wang Min loves this new toy.
Big Data Comes to Guiyang
Photo taken the day prior to opening day.
From May 25 to May 29, a Guiyang hosted the China Big Data Industry Summit and China ECommerce Innovation and Develpment Summit. I attended the confernce with two of my students. Wang Min is a student studying Hospitality Manageent at Guizhou Normal University and Bai Zhong Jun is a student of Software Engineering at Guizhou University.
Sign advertising the event
These signs are everywhere in Guiyang.
The Big Data Conference in Guiyang brought companies from all over China and from around the world. Companies that were represented include:
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The Big Data Conference had good attendence by State Owned Businesses which can provide services and financing to companies with interesting projects, projects that can employ Guiyang’s technical labor force. A small stream can grow to a river and an ocean. Guizhou Province of China aspires to become the “Big Data Valley” of China. The private and public comapnies represented here suggest that this is very feasible.