On August 21, 2000, the 16th World Computer Congress (WCC2000) was ceremoniously opened at the Beijing International Convention Center. President Jiang Zemin of the people's Republic of China attended the opening ceremony of the Congress and delivered a speech. This is a grand gathering of the world information industry across the century. Experts and entrepreneurs from all countries gather to exchange academic views, display technological achievements, and explore development trends, which will have an important impact on the development of information technology in the world. The development of information technology enables human beings to excavate and make use of the huge information resources hidden in the material movement. Information resources have become as important as material resources, and their important role is increasing day by day. In order to meet the requirements of information processing in the information age, the current information processing technology is developing in the direction of intelligence. From the carrier of information to all links of information processing, it widely simulates human intelligence to process all kinds of information. Intelligent information processing is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary subject in computer science and an application-oriented comprehensive discipline. Its goal is to deal with massive and complex information and study new and advanced theories and technologies. Intelligent information processing research covers many levels, such as basic research, application basic research, key technology research and application research. It not only has high theoretical research value, but also is of great significance to the development of the national information industry and even the whole social and economic construction and development.

Carry out basic theoretical research on intelligent information processing, including mathematical theory of information and knowledge processing, algorithm design and analysis of complex systems, parallel processing theory and algorithm, new computing modes such as quantum computing and biological computing, machine learning theory and algorithm, biological information and neural information processing, etc. Intelligent information processing in specific fields with Internet applications as the main background includes large-scale text processing, image and video information retrieval and processing, web-based knowledge mining, extraction and integration, etc. In addition, there are intelligent information processing in business and financial activities, including e-government, e-commerce, e-finance, etc., to promote the application of intelligent information technology in various fields of the national economy, and strive to achieve and improve the social and economic benefits of information processing technology.

According to the needs of social development and scientific research, IFIP proposed a conference on Intelligent Information Processing and held the first International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing.