Hammer of Technology

"Okay, thank you, Tian."

"You're welcome, it should be."

……

After hanging up the phone, Tian Yanzhen glanced at the papers on the table, pushed them aside, picked up the phone, flipped to Ningwei's name, thought about it, but didn't dial it, but continued to flip through the phonebook. I searched, and found Mr. Yao. When I pressed the call button this time, it was very quick and powerful.

"Hey……"

"Old Yao, good news. Someone called me just now to inform Ning Wei that he has confirmed that he will win this year's Turing Award. It will probably be announced on the official website in a short while! Good news for the whole world to celebrate! "

"Well... I see... Wait, shouldn't I be notified in advance of this kind of thing? Why did I find you?"

"Hey, they couldn't get in touch with that kid Ningwei. He didn't reply to the email, maybe he didn't read it at all, and he couldn't get through the phone either. You know, that kid Ningwei stopped all calls from strangers across the board. No, news It's almost announced, and the organizing committee still can't get in touch with Ning Wei, so they can only ask me, and I'm really exhausted physically and mentally as a mentor."

"Oh..." The other side of the phone answered peacefully, and then calmly said: "Is the show over? If not, continue quickly. If it's over, I'll hang up."

"Haha, it's almost over. I'm not the kind of person who likes to be hated. Today I invite everyone to dinner. Are you free?"

"No, goodbye!"

"Beep beep..."

"Heh... look at all of them, they are all stingy."

……

"Ning Wei, where are you?"

"It's in the office, what's the matter? Director Tian?"

"It's really a matter, are you coming over, or am I going over?"

"Then you wait for me for 10 minutes, I'll go over."

"Okay, I'll wait for you in the office."

……

"Ning Wei, ah, I have good news for you. You are the winner of this year's Turing Award! How is it? Doesn't it feel great?"

"Eh? How do you know?"

"What do you think? The organizing committee can't get in touch with you, and all the congratulatory calls have been sent to me!"

"This... Mr. Tian, ​​they must feel very honored, right?"

"Um……"

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314 little people

In the huge office, Tian Yanzhen began to lose his mind, or Ning Wei's casual words made him lose his mind for a moment.

Well, he could see that Ning Wei really lacked interest in winning such an international award. Tian Yanzhen has met many young people in his life, and he can easily tell whether some words follow his heart.

Obviously, what Ning Wei said just now is probably his real thought. The kind of contempt that comes from the bottom of his heart is really not something that a young man in his twenties like Ning Wei can pretend.What's even more exasperating is that this guy is obviously not without fame and fortune, maybe he just thinks that those people are no longer qualified to judge his achievements?

This award is given to me, the jury should be very happy, right?Or if I am willing to win this award, they should be very happy, right?

Thinking about Ning Wei's inner activities at this time, Tian Yan really felt that the temple of Yanbei University was really too small, and it was almost impossible to accommodate this great god.

After all, it's not just that the ACM group is not qualified to comment on Ningwei's achievements.

This made Tian Yanzhen feel a little dispirited, especially the phone call to Lao Yao just now made him feel ashamed.It made him even want to imitate Ning Wei's tone: "Well, they should feel honored to come here. By the way, they left me a phone number. Out of politeness, you should call someone else later. If I don't want to make a phone call, but reply to an email."

"If it's out of politeness... Well, then you should give me the phone. I can stop by on the way back to the office later. If you have to send another email, it will waste time. This kind of email is not safe Let March reply, how should I put it, its understanding of politeness seems to be a little different from what we imagined. Communication with it in terms of text often deviates from the topic, and it is still a bit stupid."

After finishing speaking, Ning Wei smacked his lips, as if talking too far...

"Okay, I'll send the phone number left over there to your WeChat, and you'll get back to it later. In fact, it's not just about winning prizes. Our Ning class has decided to do it here. The selection of the Cining class is also very important, and the admissions office is also under great pressure. To grab good students, the other side also told me, see if you can cooperate with them to shoot a few promotional videos, small interviews and the like For admissions."

After finishing speaking, he paused and explained: "I know you are busy, but this matter must be done by you. You are very popular among young people, especially many children regard you as a role model. If you say something, they should I can listen, so you should be fine with this matter, right?"

Ning Wei nodded and said, "That's fine, as long as you don't need to prepare for a long speech."

Tian Yanzhen showed a smile on his face: "You don't need to prepare anything, just some words of encouragement and care for your future juniors or your future students will do. Say something nice and let those outstanding seedlings Just come to us if you want."

After hearing this, Ning Wei became more relaxed, and said, "Okay, Director Tian, ​​you can just ask the teacher from the admissions office to contact me later. Let's not talk about those who are in the Ning class but not Ning class, after all, this is a matter of immeasurable merit." If those children choose the school next door, half of their lives will be ruined directly, and now they study mathematics and artificial intelligence and choose to go abroad, then their lives will be completely ruined, so this propaganda should indeed be done. "

Tian Yan really likes to hear these words that are so affectionate.

"Okay, then I'll let you know over there later. Another thing, I recently re-determined a new topic selection direction, you can see if you are interested. If you are also interested, do your artificial intelligence number theory When you are tired from research, you can also choose this proposition to change your mind.”

After finishing speaking, Tian Yanzhen handed the opening report that he had sorted out to Ning Wei.

Well, Ning Wei thinks that he still needs to read the subject of his tutor's research, but he reads the report very quickly, and he probably understands Tian Yanzhen's new research direction at a glance.

Coincidentally, Ningwei is indeed somewhat interested in this aspect of the proposition.I really don't want to flatter Tian Yanzhen. In fact, with his current status, Ning Wei really doesn't need to flatter anyone, but in fact, the research on infinite-dimensional manifolds is actually related to artificial intelligence.

The popularity of infinite dimensions, infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, infinite-dimensional function spaces, operator spaces...these are all very imaginative.

In fact, everything contained in nature needs to be solved using the concept of infinite dimensions, which of course also includes the field of artificial intelligence.An infinite-dimensional mathematical structure, if only viewed from the perspective of the generators of the structure and the relationship between them, is very complicated, and it is difficult to have any mathematical intuition, but if this infinite-dimensional mathematical structure describes an infinite-dimensional free The physical system of the degree, which is very interesting.

So after reading the opening report, Ning Wei said without hesitation: "Okay, Director Tian, ​​I have closed this topic, but I think we need to find a more subdivided research direction if we want to do it. , let's talk again."

"Haha, okay, it's fine if you have what you say, and I'll think about it, go get busy." Tian Yanzhen said with a smile.

The mood is very good. At his current position, in fact, his heart has faded whether he can win the award. Even if he has not, with a student like Ning Wei, he is not too lazy to show that he is rewarded for some foreign certifications. Have an attitude of looking forward to it too much.

But he is still looking forward to the groundbreaking research results before he retires.

It is a pleasant thing to be able to see more of the mysteries of mathematics itself, isn't it?

……

After walking out of the office, Ning Wei followed Tian Yanzhen's instructions and called back.

There is no way, China is an ancient civilization, the most basic courtesy is indeed necessary, people gave him the award, no matter whether he cares or not, he can't lose a piece of meat by saying thank you.In fact, the most important thing is that Ningwei is not short of money now, and can afford international calls.

If he went back to the time when he was still at Jiang University, there was a high probability that he would not make this call. If he had to make it, he would use his tutor's phone to make it.The saying that the economic base determines the superstructure is indeed a universally applicable truth.

If you have a lot of money, you can look at the small money with a detached attitude. Of course, the small money here refers not only to the cost of overseas calls, but also the bonus of the Turing Award.This is also the root of being tough.This is the same as when a man covets someone else's body, he can often lick like a saint, living and dying for the goddess, dedicating everything to the goddess without knowing that he has lost all principles, and it is actually a reason to become a licking dog.

If you have pictures, you will be soft, but without desires, you will be strong.

So Ning Wei can be so tough largely because of the magic of money.In fact, Ning Wei thinks that with his current mentality, he can probably say in front of the camera, I don't like money, I have no interest in money at all, but he won't say it, because the irony is that daring to say this sentence is based on his It's already built on a rich foundation, so it's uninteresting.

What's even more annoying is that he could have chosen not to be so rich...

If I knew that he basically has nothing to spend money on now, for example, the villa he lives in is free, and if he needs a car for travel, there will always be a special car to pick him up, and he can switch models according to the number of pick-ups and handle different things; There is also a special plane to pick up and drop off, and if you don't ask him for money, even when you go out to treat someone to a meal, Liu Wei silently checks out the bill in the end, which makes the money lying in his bank card meaningless...

No, the meaning is everything, for example, now you can use March to play games.

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The phone rang three times and was connected. This was probably a kind of self-restraint, neither to make the caller wait too long, nor to appear too urgent on my side.

"Hello, I'm Ning Wei." Ning Wei introduced himself before asking.

"Oh, Dr. Ning, hello, I'm the chairman of the ACM committee, you can call me Qimi."

"Hello, Chimi."

"Well, Ning, I think you already know the news of the award. Congratulations, you have become the winner of this year's Turing Award!"

The passionate tone was converted into a signal and then restored into a voice into Ning Wei's ears, and then the chairman of the ACM Association also heard Ning Wei's response the next moment.

"Oh."

It was very flat, and Qimi was at a loss for a moment, not knowing how to continue the conversation.

The emotion on the other side is really too low, it seems that it is not the Turing Award, and it is not even as exciting as winning a third prize after shopping in Da Ma's supermarket, and being able to get a free tube of toothpaste from an unknown brand .

Fortunately, I seemed to realize that this kind of reaction might not be very polite, and the other person said again: "Actually, what the instructor means is, make a phone call to thank everyone, and then I will pull your number into my address book, so it can be counted as multiple friends." , but I believe that if you are in my position at this time, you will also feel that this fact is nothing to be excited about."

"It's not that I look down on the Turing Award, but you know, Mitch, if I were just a simple scientist, I would be very happy and excited, and feel that I have been recognized by the whole world. Maybe I will invite you tonight Let’s have a meal. But from the perspective of the sponsor of the March Award, I’m not really happy to receive this award. After all, the March Award actually includes computers, which are competing products. From the perspective of the business environment, We are now friends."

"Friends and merchants are natural enemies. Presumably you won't object to this, right? I won't say all the negative news exposed by various brands on the Internet. At least 80.00% of them are masterpieces of friends and merchants. Really, I didn’t know about these things before, I just thought that it was convenient for people to obtain information on the Internet, and a lot of information was fermented naturally.”

"But since I have cooperated with some companies in the business field and learned some knowledge about communication, I realized that even on the Internet, it is actually very difficult for something to have a certain amount of communication without a driving force behind it. Of course I don’t rule out accidental explosions, but the number of such explosions is very small, and more of them are artificial explosions. Spending money to attract traffic and hype negative news about opponents is a routine operation for everyone. Especially competing products This is a compulsory course for those friends and businessmen who are highly competitive."

"So originally, I was already prepared to not win the Turing Award this year. I was also prepared to wait until the Turing Award was officially announced, and try to hype the topic that the father of strong artificial intelligence actually missed the Turing Award , If the effect explodes, it will be a profit for the March Award. After all, the credibility of this thing, every little bit, means that there are fewer people who can be influenced. There is a process until no one cares about it."

"But now that you have awarded me the award, the plan has come to nothing, so you can't expect me to be very happy. Are you right? Of course, it's not disappointing, it's just that there is one missing point of communication. It's a little pity."

Chimi listened carefully, his thoughts drifting a little. In fact, the Turing Award was finally awarded to Ning. Why is it not because of similar reasons.

Just to be honest...

Of course, the most important thing is that the other party seems to have mispronounced his name...

After brewing for a while, Qimi said, "Well, my name is Qimi, not Mickey..."

"Oh, sorry, slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue..."

"It doesn't matter, but, Ning, in fact, science has no national boundaries..."

"No, no, no, I want to correct you on this point, Mitch, I used to think so, but then I found that science not only has national boundaries, but also has clear barriers and clear prices. The so-called science without borders is just some scientists. It’s just a romantic slogan. We all know that slogans are meaningless. For example, we hope to share their research results with some companies, do you know how difficult it is?”

"The layers of patent barriers do not represent science? Does science have national boundaries? It just depends on who owns the science. You see, before I develop the turbulence algorithm, if I go to Ericsson's Mr. Leden Say, science knows no borders, share your 5G patents with us, guess how he will answer me? I guess he didn’t even bother to tell me the words. A psychiatrist to see if I have lost my mind."

"But after we have the turbulent flow algorithm, I told him that science has no borders, share your patents with us, and we want to create the future together. Mr. Ledon not only looked at me straight, but also flew from Switzerland to China Come hold my hand and shout slogans after me, yes, science should have no borders! I have made you my friend, and we will share these scientific achievements in the future!"

"For another example, before our March artificial intelligence and three-dimensional silicon-through-tube chip manufacturing technology was invented, I told Tim Cook, big brother, science knows no borders, take out your technology, and let's cooperate. The world is invincible in the future, do you think he will talk to me? If you think the above example is too commercial, then the simplest, since science knows no borders, do you dare to share your latest research results directly with our intelligent platform? ? I will provide you with a port here, if you dare to connect, I respect you for being a duplicity man!"

Qimi felt speechless again. He felt that Ningwei’s words were hostile, but he didn’t know where the hostility came from. He felt that Ningwei was confusing science with technical patents, but he didn’t There is no way to make a complete cut of science and technology patents.

After all, the concept of science is very broad. It cannot be said that only theoretical research belongs to science. Other technological advancements, such as the microstructures on the individual chips, do not belong to science, and those carefully stored mushroom eggs do not belong to science...

Just how did the conversation become like this?

What was supposed to be a simple phone call to get in touch turned out to be a field of debate. What's more annoying was that he didn't know whether it was deliberate or a slip of the tongue, and he kept calling him by the wrong name.

However, before he could speak, the other party opened his mouth again...

"For example, before selecting the winners, you always have to inform the winners of this process in advance. What kind of response do you expect? The winners are grateful to Dade, and feel that it is their honor to be selected? They should be very excited to get your affirmation? Because your choice represents the justice of science? Or is your will correct? Of course, the most important thing is, why are you the judges who judge scientists to promote human progress?"

"Actually, this is what I'm not convinced about. To tell you the truth, I'm a true egalitarian. I think your judging mechanism is not reasonable enough. For example, how many computer scientists make up the third world on the judging committee? How many Chinese are there? ?How many Americans are there? How many independent research professors? How many scientists accept funding from the main funder? Do you have a specific, quantifiable model or benchmarking standard to determine the nominees’ contribution to the world’s computer science progress? Contribution ranking? Let all the unsuccessful nominees have nothing to say?"

"I believe there is none, because if there was, it would have been announced on the official website long ago. The so-called selection is nothing more than placing the candidates in one or several meetings, and discussing with those who you think are qualified, who has contributed more A few. Of course, not only the Turing Award, everyone does this. So who can win the award and who can’t win the award depends on the conscience and subjective consciousness of the judges in addition to the respective contributions of these scientists."

"But do I need your approval? Or do I need some people whose achievements are destined to be inferior to mine to recognize all the achievements I have achieved? It may even be the recognition given to me by grievances? According to normal development, it should not You invited me to be a judge to determine whether other people's research results can be seen by me? This is the most appropriate performance of scientific evaluation."

"Really, it's not that I'm floating, or I'm too proud. I didn't have the qualifications to judge before, but unfortunately, I have now. So I just say these words casually, there is something to offend, Don't take it to heart. It's not worth it to be angry. Of course, if you are angry and plan to change the candidate for this year's Turing Award, I don't mind too much. Really, you can choose other candidates, and I won't because of it And feeling depressed.”

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Ning Wei said in one breath, the other party was silent for a moment, and did not comment on the above remarks. When he spoke again, he began to narrate like a robot: "Actually, this call, I also hope to invite you to participate in the ACM conference held in San Francisco in June this year. Moreover, this year's Turing Award ceremony will be held during the ACM conference. In fact, we are planning to officially include you as a professional member of ACM on that day. We also have many special interest groups that are looking forward to your joining. We also believe that you can join us. Bringing a lot of different things to these interest groups.”

This response made Ning Wei laugh, and said: "Haha, Qimi, you are such an interesting person. But do you think I dare to go to San Francisco to attend your conference after I have complained to you so much? You think highly of me Be brave, I belong to the king of strong mouth, mouth cannon is quite powerful, but hands-on ability is extremely weak. So I am afraid of being beaten face to face. By the way, the Wolf Award ceremony was originally held in Israel according to tradition. It was held in the Capitol. Guess why I chose the Centennial Auditorium of Yanbei University in the end? Isn’t it just because I am timid? If your ACM conference can be held in China, I will definitely participate, even if it is overseas. That’s it, I We're at the office door, goodbye. Hang up..."

After finishing speaking, Ning Wei pressed the hang up button the moment he pushed the door open.

It's just that after walking into the door, he found that Liu Wei who was silently following behind him did not go to his lounge as usual, so he couldn't help but wondered: "Brother Liu, are you planning to talk to me too?"

"No, I just want to persuade you, sometimes don't speak so clearly, you will make people around you feel very tired if you live so straightforwardly, such as me. I have been thinking about whether I should make a report and make more arrangements. Team up."

These words made Ning Wei first carefully reflect on what he said just now, and then he raised his head and said, "Brother Liu, you can't really blame me for this. After all, this is probably one of the few pleasures I have now. If you can become famous at a young age without being arrogant, How terrifying is that xinxing? Not to mention that I was just an unknown little person before I became famous, and I really can't do the kind of thing that can show a gentleman's smile even though it's not comfortable to see each other."

"More importantly, Brother Liu, compare your heart with your heart. You really don't think I belong to the kind of employer who is hardly more perfect. For example, if you are protecting another scientist with similar achievements to mine, he was notified today The Turing Award, and then very happily agreed to the other party to go to San Francisco to participate in the ACM conference. By the way, I also prepared a speech at the award ceremony, and I am very sure and definitely must go to this conference. If I don’t let it, I will choose autism , will you feel more headache when you encounter this kind of situation?"

Liu Wei was stunned for a moment, and then found that he was speechless.

"So, brother Liu, the so-called gains and losses, don't be too picky. And I can get rid of the burden of being an idol and express my inner feelings without any scruples. What are you still struggling with? Right, brother Liu? As long as you keep reminding yourself that I, Ning Wei is just an outspoken little person, will you be able to take all of this for granted?"

Liu Wei nodded subconsciously, but soon felt that something was wrong...

Ah……

Outspoken... little man?

Setting such a personality for yourself is like having an invincible golden body...

Heh... little man!

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315 The Horn of Yanbei University

Ning Wei, who regards himself as a small person, honestly guards his three-acre land, doing what he thinks he should do.But when the ACM official website released the news that he won the Turing Award, many people still felt excited.

Although Ning Wei didn't take the Turing Award seriously, it caused a carnival when it was put on the Internet.After all, the Turing Award is still very popular, and it is also the top international scientific award. If it is compared, it can probably be counted as an award on the same level as the Nobel Prize.