Hammer of Technology

But now that Ningwei's video is released, and with Ericsson's response, no one can sit still.For the management, they only need to assign tasks. After all, the code is typed out bit by bit by the software engineers below. In order to realize a certain function, have you borrowed the code published by Ningwei in the paper? I have the same question, whether the reliability is enough, not to mention the high-level, most of the engineers involved in the research and development are full of question marks at this time.

Of course, while waiting for the test results, Cisco executives did not do nothing.For example, Cisco’s chairman and CEO Zhuo Ke Luo made more than a dozen phone calls, and Cisco’s chief technology officer has been in touch with the technical departments of his peers, including Ericsson. The news received in this area is not optimistic.

But one thing is worthy of praise. After communicating with the bigwigs on Wall Street, Zhuo Ke has already done his best to appease the founder of Turbulence Algorithm, Ning Wei. Honor, even dispatched technicians overnight to assist the market network administrators to switch the network back to the old network.

Yes, even a company like Cisco is careful enough to upgrade the list of trading markets.While upgrading, the old and stable network system was maintained by the way. If there is a problem with the upgraded product, it only takes half a minute at most to switch to the old network equipment channel.

But everyone understands that even if they suddenly replace all the upgraded equipment, or even make the backup network better, it is not enough, because this is not just a technical problem, but also a problem of market confidence.This is really thanks to Ericsson's backstab without warning, putting a technical problem that can be easily solved into a big event that may shake the entire market's concerns about safety and thus lose confidence!

This is why the Wolf Foundation is determined to award this year's mathematics award to Ning Wei, and even decided to compromise and put the award ceremony in China in order to allow Ning Wei to participate in the award ceremony.

If Cisco's products do not pass the test, at least they should appease Ning Wei and refrain from posting on Weibo in the near future.This is not an exaggeration, because Ningwei has proven himself before.How important is it for a mathematician who can send hundreds of Weibo posts a day to explain a truth for a casual post on Weibo that can cause the entire technology sector to plummet? Weibo is not an exaggeration.

Yes, everyone has done everything they can before the final result is out.In the end, if there are no problems with Cisco's products, then of course everything is easy to say, and by the way, I have to teach that so-called big company that is not very obedient in Snow Country, but if there is a problem...

In case it does eventually show up.

"The test report came out. There is an unavoidable problem that may cause the entire system to go down. The analysis report is here. We have reason to suspect that this is not a code problem, but in that paper, he put this hidden The channel idea was built into the algorithm, which directly caused our engineers to directly call him to give a set of functions when refactoring the code, and then this result appeared.”

At that time, when the science and technology officer of the company's network R&D department put the test report on the desk in Luo Zhuoke's office, everything was finally settled.

"In other words, we are the same as Ericsson, and all products may have the same problem?"

Zhuo Ke looked at the report, and when he asked these words, cold sweat was already dripping on his back:

If we hadn't been cautious enough when receiving the order to upgrade the market network, and the old network and the old backup network were not directly dismantled, then today's fun would be really great.

"How should I say this..."

"Worio is not the time to shirk responsibility now, please answer my question directly!"

"Yes!"

Luo Zhuoke looked at the person in charge of the technology opposite, nodded, and said, "Okay, very good! That is to say, you gave me such an answer sheet for an investment of 5 million U.S. dollars in half a year? Do you remember? Three A month ago, you were also standing here, patted your chest and assured me that although our products are a little worse than Huawei in terms of performance, there is absolutely no problem in terms of security! Without your guarantee, how could we possibly talk about it? Place a Wall Street order?!"

"This was an accident, really an accident! No one thought that he could add these things to the algorithm he conceived before, but it would not affect the operation and performance of the entire algorithm at all, and we also have mathematicians..."

"Okay, Wario, no need to explain, you should know how much damage this will bring to the company's reputation. I suggest you submit a resignation letter to me immediately, it's not that I don't talk about people, really, I am In order to protect you, you can imagine what the upcoming board meeting will be like. When the news spreads, and you still stay in the company, you may be torn to pieces by angry shareholders!" Zhuo Ke was tired He waved his hand at Wario.

"I see, thank you, Mr. Robinson."

"Also, this news must be kept strictly confidential. Your resignation letter will be approved in three months. During this period, including the news of your voluntary resignation, it must be kept absolutely confidential, okay?"

"No problem, the engineers who participated in this test have signed the strictest confidentiality agreement."

"Okay, now you can make an announcement and tell everyone that our latest product has no problems, and the contract can be fulfilled normally!" Zhuo Ke waved his hand.

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256 Morality and Fist

In the spacious and luxurious study room, Sackler Berg was sitting on a comfortable chair, carefully flipping through a paper document.If Ning Wei was in this room at this time, he would probably feel very honored, because his photo is pasted on the front page of this profile. The photo is a photo of him without a hat when he was a freshman. At that time, he still had the youthfulness of high school , grinning at the camera, with the vigor and stupidity unique to young people.

Really, Sackler Berg thought he had paid enough attention to this young Chinese genius. He even remembered that on the last day of September, at the meeting he specially convened, the strategy he set up could not let This guy has more leverage.

He still remembers that everyone was very enthusiastic and offered many plans. He was very satisfied and let these people do it freely.The final result has come out now, and it cannot be said that everyone did nothing, it can only be said that the reverse engineering of this matter is perfect!After their various manipulations, the influence of this young Chinese scientist was finally magnified infinitely.

Of course, there were mistakes in their work, but it was more because everyone underestimated the ability of this young scientist.

If Ningwei's public speaking in September last year could only affect a small conceptual sector in the stock market here, then if he speaks out loud now, it may affect the entire US stock market.

At this moment, Sackler Berg felt exhausted even if he wanted to get angry.

As an old man who has witnessed a lot of history, he knows better than anyone how dangerous the stock market situation is at this time and how important confidence is to this market. An algorithm developed by the young man himself more than a year ago, what is even more frightening is the young man's scheming and ruthlessness.

According to the evaluation in the data, this software anti-piracy method is so well conceived and designed that it can not only bring him hundreds of millions of wealth, but even this method itself can play a great role in promoting the healthy development of the software industry.But this Ningwei was able to hold back from announcing it until this critical moment before taking out this technology and showing it directly to the sky.

This is actually similar to the March Showcase.

When this program was born in March, it was enough for him to win the Turing Award, but he did not announce it, and even made this artificial intelligence program play a big joke on him with the whole world. Ge can feel his blood pressure soaring wildly.It is no longer possible to restrict or even dilute Ningwei's influence through the operation of the audience.

In Sackler Berg’s view, history has proved that on the development route of modern scientific civilization, whenever the process of lighting up the technological tree of human beings stagnates, there will always be great scientists who are epoch-making and point out a way for the development of civilization. Way to come.Copernicus's heliocentric theory illuminated ignorance; Watt made mechanical motion a reality; Newton directly advanced modern humans' cognition of force to an unprecedented era; the appearance of Einstein directly triggered a revolution in the physics world at that time, and Laid a solid foundation for modern physics; von Neumann made the computing power of the machine infinitely magnified...

God has favored the western world for hundreds of years, until now a young mathematician and computer scientist - Ning Wei appeared in China.

Yes, Sackler-Berg believes that Ningwei already has all the conditions to grow into a scientific giant who advances human science a big step forward in this era.This is also one of the reasons why he chose to spend more than three hours studying this material.Another important reason is that it can be said that Ning Wei hijacked the entire stock market with a Weibo post he posted yesterday.

The current appeal has changed from suppressing Ningwei to being able to shut him up, at least to reach an agreement secretly with Cisco to resolve this dispute.Otherwise, whether it is to terminate the contract with Cisco or continue to entrust Cisco with the contract to complete the network security upgrade in the market, it will bring huge risks.

But from this information, it seems that Ning Wei has almost no points that can be used.

In fact, a year ago, when Ning Wei had not yet graduated from college, Cisco offered him an annual salary of 80 US dollars, along with a series of favorable conditions.Unfortunately, it was directly rejected.This annual salary seems stupid now, even if it is increased by a hundred times, it is not an exaggeration, but Sackler Berg knew very well that the salary of a fresh graduate was not low at that time.

When Ning Wei showed his talents, it was not without hard work. Many professors from Ivy League universities have already offered him olive branches.

What hurt Sackler Berg the most was that Ning Wei had been to the United States.When he participated in the socd conference last year, he was less than [-] kilometers away from Washington, but at that time no one thought of keeping him.That's all, when he participated in the stoc conference in Montreal, it was the best chance to keep this young hero, but it was missed again.

Of course, some people cannot be blamed for their insensitive sense of smell.The two computer conferences give people the feeling that this little guy has been doing theoretical research.Even though the turbulence algorithm is partial to application, he also selflessly put the core code in the paper. At that time, no one thought that this young man was so insidious that he included so many private goods in the theory of the paper!

No one would have thought that while Ning Wei was doing theoretical research on artificial intelligence, he would still have the energy to make applications along the way. The new artificial intelligence theory and the new artificial intelligence technology appeared almost simultaneously...

The most important thing is that after March came out, the young man was unmoved even when he was invited to go abroad to participate in the award ceremony. After reading all the content of Ning Wei's chat with Dan Shechtman It's very deep, and the number of cards that can be played is instantly reduced, so how should this young man be bribed?

As for spending money to smear on the Internet, it has been proved before that all the reverse propaganda is not ineffective. For example, the mouthpieces that received money were almost wiped out, but Ning Wei remained unscathed, but had a higher reputation, which directly led to the recent There are many fewer people who dare to collect money to do reverse publicity on the Internet.

This is something that Sackler Berger did not expect. In the face of huge profits, some people even bother to use reasonable tax avoidance methods.Really, if those partners around him have such a high level of awareness, then all the problems facing the United States can be solved.

Yes, the rich people around him would rather spend their money on hiring the smartest accountants and lawyers, or lobbying politicians to change the law so that they can find a reasonable way to avoid tax burdens, rather than doing their best obligation.He understands better than ordinary people why the US tax law encourages the public to avoid taxes reasonably, because only the truly rich can truly enjoy most of the reasonable tax avoidance policies, and of course these truly rich people include himself.

Sackler Berg still remembers that when he was young, he always hoped that he could be the one who broke all the constraints and rules, but now that he is old, in his mind, rules are everything, and anyone should act according to the rules. , because he has personally participated and made the rules.

Finally, Sackler Berg closed the document in front of him, and his eyes fell on the childish smiling face on the cover again.It's hard to believe that this young guy has grown into a character who is so dazzling in science and so slippery that he feels he can't start in just four years.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on his door, and the young, beautiful, and super-figured female secretary walked into the study, walked up to him with the unique voice of high-heeled shoes, leaned down and whispered in the old man's ear: " Mr. Zhuo Ke just called, and he asked me to inform you that the internal test results have come out, although the situation is not optimistic, but they are working hard in the best direction according to the plan."

Listen, what wonderful news this is.

Sackler Berg smiled and said, "Okay, I see, by the way, Julian, do you want to go to Huaxia to meet this young man?"

The female secretary glanced at the boy on the cover in disgust, then shook her head decisively, and said, "No, Mr. Berg, I'm not interested in Huaxia."

Sackler Berg laughed, then spread his hands and said, "Haha, Julian, temporarily put away your prejudices. That country has already become not what you imagined. Don't look down on this young man, if he Yes, we can make him the hope of all mankind, so don't underestimate a rising tech star. Actually, I really want you to meet him, if you can charm this promising future Young man, I am willing to give you this whole building as a wedding gift, and even help you pay for the maintenance and management costs, insurance and taxes of this building for ten years."

These words made the female secretary stunned. After being in contact with her for a long time, she knew that Sackler Berg was not joking, and she also knew how rich the old man in front of her was.In other words, if she can really make this young man her guest of honor, she can really own this building.

Really, at this moment, Julian seemed to see... love from that green smiling face.

"If you wish..."

"Haha, don't think about it, Julian, you know I'm not stingy, you have to know that this young man even rejected Princess Isabel, maybe that princess is not better than you, but she is younger than you and..."

The old man paused when he said this, with a smile still on his face, but his eyes were getting colder, but his tone was still gentle: "If he is willing to come here, I will give you a chance, Julian, but it's a pity, It's probably going to be hard. Well, go ahead and call Rodgers back and tell him that I don't want to hear any bad news, and that if he doesn't handle the mess they've made, it could be serious."

"Yes, Mr. Berger!"

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Huaxia, Yanbei University, Yanbei International Mathematical Research Center.

Ning Wei originally thought that in order for him to be invited to participate in this foundation, the chairman of the Wolf Award Foundation would be magical enough to hold the awards ceremony in China, but he did not expect that magical things would continue one after another. Things are happening.

For example, now, at night, he has not waited for classmate Lai Jiang, but he is waiting for a call from Yan Ming. The CEO of Cisco Greater China has flown from Hangzhou to Beijing, and he hopes to meet him now, and his car has already arrived. We were almost at Yanbei University, but we couldn't get in touch with him, so we first got in touch with Yan Ming, who had business dealings with Ning Wei.Look at this big night, don't you treat doctoral students as human beings?

Ning Wei asked curiously: "Mr. Yan, do you know what this Mr. Huang wants to see me at night?"

"Probably because of that video on your Weibo." Yan Ming replied.

"Cisco also has products that have stolen the turbulence algorithm?" Ning Wei asked a little surprised.

"We can't talk about misappropriation. We can only say that there will be some unexpected reactions when testing Cisco's similar equipment with the method you gave. According to our test results, Cisco's equipment will experience more serious network instability after testing. There is a risk of equipment downtime, and it can return to normal after restarting the equipment. Compared with other test results, it is actually much better.”

See what this says, if telecom operators use equipment that requires frequent restarts to work normally, it may blow up in a few days.

Of course, Ning Wei can also hear the feeling of gloating in Yan Ming's tone, which is very emotional. In fact, the video Ning Wei posted was mainly for Ericsson. Who would have thought that even the giant company that invited him Ba Company also exploded.

"One more question, Mr. Yan, why are they in such a hurry? Do they have to rush over here at night?"

"You don't know?" Mr. Yan was obviously surprised that Ning Wei would ask such an unprofessional question.

"How could I know?" Ning Wei just felt baffled.

"Cisco just received a big order for the security upgrade of the network equipment of the three major stock exchanges in the United States last month. Haven't you always been concerned about the U.S. stock market? Although there is no information on what step the upgrade is now, but if it is exposed at this time There is a high probability that Wall Street will worry about the security trading environment of the entire market. We were planning to wait for the two parties to announce the security upgrade before discussing it with Cisco, which is a pity."

Yan Ming said regretfully: "We have made a rough judgment here. Huawei has also accepted orders to upgrade the network security of the three major exchanges in Mingzhu, Shencheng and Beijing. The data involved in this project is too sensitive and requires extreme caution. The entire project is expected to take half a year, and now it has been five months, except for the capital exchange, all have been upgraded. We estimate that Cisco will take about this long."

"There is such a thing? Why didn't you say it earlier?" Ning Wei was surprised and even regretted.

He seems to be too indifferent to practical matters. If he knew about this matter earlier, he really wouldn't mind giving Cisco more time.Think about it, if the exchange suddenly dropped offline during the trading day, it would probably be a very beautiful alternative scenery.

It's a pity, it's probably impossible to trigger this kind of alternative landscape now, as you can tell from the fact that people rushed from Hangzhou to Beijing at night.

"Well, Dr. Ning, I always thought you cared about the US stock market, so naturally you wouldn't miss their announcements, and even if it really got to that point, it would be many times more difficult to deal with than it is now. It will involve many The question at the level... Now the question is, do you plan to meet with Mr. Huang?" Yan Ming forcibly changed the topic to the normal line.

"Let me see. I made an appointment with Chenshuang for her to come at nine o'clock, and there is still half an hour left. If he can arrive at my office before nine o'clock, then there is still some time."

"Okay, then I'll call Mr. Huang back."

After hanging up the phone, Ning Wei felt that he understood some logic, and couldn't help feeling that the world was really magical. He even felt that he had figured out some basic rules to keep the world running.

For example, the so-called moral bottom line really only works when the fist is hard enough.After all, morality can only play a role when both parties have a bottom line, but if one party has no bottom line, the moral binding force will directly drop to zero.But the fist is different, you can swing it whenever you want.

Therefore, the fist is king.

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257 I am a person who understands the general situation

Drawing on his thesis, and then producing a product that is easy to use in the test, but has potential safety hazards when it is actually used, Ning Wei feels that it is mainly due to human nature.In the case of peers who are already ahead, programmers who feel the pressure will probably unconsciously borrow some functions that have been prepared in the algorithm. This is a very normal thing and almost unavoidable.

So when Ning Wei saw Cisco's President Huang, he didn't actually feel angry, but rather surprised that the president of the Greater China region came to visit late at night alone. He will bring many professionals with him, and he has almost never been seen running here alone. This seems a bit shameless. After all, he is also the president of the Greater China region of a world-class technology company.

This somewhat moved Ning Wei, and after exchanging pleasantries, he casually asked, "Boss Huang, did you come here alone today?"

"Dr. Ning, the incident happened suddenly, and it was not a very good thing, so I came alone." Huang Yunjian replied with a smile.

"Oh." Ning Wei nodded, then glanced at the time, and said, "Then I'm not too polite, I have an appointment with a friend later, why don't you just say something, let's see if we can make it consensus."

This statement is straightforward and heartbreaking.

To be honest, Huang Yunjian did not expect to meet Ning Wei in this place, and there is an electronic piano stuffed in the office of up to [-] square meters?The table used is also an ordinary desk, and the bookcase behind it is even more shabby. The standard metal cabinet and the sofa feel really uncomfortable. The most important thing is that I didn't even make a cup of tea...

To tell the truth, when Ning Wei slandered Huang Yunjian for not having any cards, the CEO was also full of doubts. Is this the attitude of the Mathematics Research Center towards hundreds of millions of doctors online?So what is Ning Wei trying to figure out?Of course, what is even more exasperating is that Ning Wei's attitude of pretending to be confused.

Why did he come, and why did he come alone? Does Dr. Ning really have no clue in his heart?But these complaints can only be suppressed, after all, he is ready to swallow his anger this time.

After deliberating for a while, Huang Yunjian said cautiously: "Well, Dr. Ning, I actually talked to Huawei's President Yan before I came here. In fact, we have not closed the communication channel with Huawei. Regarding the network security of the turbulence algorithm In fact, we have always been very interested in it. Licensing fees and other issues can be discussed, so we hope to resolve all disputes between us in a relatively mild way.”

"Oh!" Ning Wei nodded, and then replied: "Mr. Huang, have you noticed Ericsson's statement today? To be honest, I admire this company very much. This company's statement made me realize a truth. Any company that can survive for a hundred years and grow stronger has a reason. I personally think that Ericsson can survive another 100 years, what does Huang think?"

Huang Yunjian instantly felt tremendous pressure from the plain and natural words, and the corresponding expression was helpless.

After all, Cisco and Ericsson are different. The two countries belong to different countries, and the situations they face and the issues they consider have fundamentally different ways of thinking.Especially for the surrender culture in Europe, it is really a headache.

In addition, Cisco needs the support of those at the top to acquire Ericsson, and it is more difficult to deal with and straighten out the complicated relationship when making a decision; the embarrassing thing is that the situation Cisco is facing now is more complicated than Ericsson. Embarrassed.

As a listed company, according to the rules formulated by the US Securities and Exchange Supervisory Commission, such a new generation of equipment has major hidden dangers, and negative news involving multiple large contracts needs to be disclosed.However, under the pressure of capital, the headquarters has now chosen to announce the completely opposite news through official channels.This is what Huang Yunjian just learned.

So the current situation is very embarrassing, it is difficult to kneel down, and it is impossible to stand up straight.After all, after the headquarters released the false news, there was no turning back.An extremely influential technology company like Cisco publishes false news, and after the debunking, it does not matter how many penalties there will be. The key is that someone should be held accountable.If he doesn't make a good deal, no matter who is pushed out to take the blame, his position will be very passive.

So Huang Yunjian could only speak earnestly: "Cisco is not the same as Ericsson after all. We still hope to resolve this unnecessary dispute in a more decent way. Dr. Ning can make some conditions. If we can do it, we will do our best." Yes. But if our chairman is to be like Mr. Ledon, it is indeed a bit difficult."

These words made Ning Wei respect the man in front of him, straightened his body, gave a thumbs up, then nodded and said: "Understood, Mr. Huang means that you should stand up and make money! "

Huang Yunjian was stunned for a moment, and chose to remain silent, not answering the question.

Ning Wei thought for a while, and continued: "Mr. Huang, you know, I'm just a researcher, and I don't understand the twists and turns of your business field. I can only tell you about my superficial understanding of the world. , A large part of this is what my father taught me since I was a child, let me tell you, and then let's continue this conversation, okay?"

Huang Yunjian nodded quickly and said, "Dr. Ning, tell me."

Ning Wei nodded, tilted his head to think for a moment before opening his mouth and said: "I remember when my dad finished drinking, he told me that some people in this world are human beings who can reason or tell him Human words; some people are not human, so they can only be raped. Why? Because everyone in this world is afraid of violence. You dare to act like a psychopath, and normal people will just walk around you."

"So don't always pin your hopes on the justice of this world. Sometimes when you encounter a problem that you are right but can't solve, you can actually change your mind, that is, directly make the matter so big that the other party is unwilling to bear the burden of continuing to entangle Costs and consequences, they will take the initiative to choose to make big things smaller, and at that time, as long as you can walk down the steps, if you are not sure, they will thank you for letting them go."

"Why does the world run like this? My dad didn't say it, but based on some of my own experiences, I still came up with some truths. That is, it is useful for speaking from a higher position or for a big man in charge. Generally speaking, their first demand is often efficiency, which is to solve problems quickly, rather than the so-called fair and just solution to problems.”

"Because efficiency is the first element, when ordinary people are wronged, the more they behave unforgivingly, the more they show that they want to make this matter a big deal, and make it a situation that everyone knows is out of control. The more likely it is that the really big people will come forward to solve the problem. Really, this is really tried and tested. Especially as I make more and more achievements and get higher and higher, the big people who help me solve the problem also More and more, so I'm really experienced in that."

"For example, when I was in the graduate school, I punched the teacher in the research and recruitment office because of the information problem. For example, I was slandered on Weibo, and I simply reported myself. In the end, the result is very explosive now. These experiences also let me Now when dealing with similar issues, I always like to think about this aspect."

"Sometimes there is even a sense of anticipation, and I can't help but think, when I make a big mess again, who will be the next big guy to turn the big thing down? So, Mr. Huang, How about you give me a suggestion, should we spend 10 minutes to reach a consensus as soon as possible, or start the process?"

Is this about to start the process? !

Really, it was clearly a threat, but Ning Wei said it so kindly and simply, and then started with his father's childhood education, which once made Huang Yunjian feel very reasonable, and even aroused curiosity that empathized with him.So this time it really made things big, and I was able to blow up a lot of amazing characters to help everyone make big things smaller.