Hammer of Technology

He is used to seeing the company logo composed of thousands of news pictures when he walks into the lobby of the building, he is even more used to the bustling crowd in the building, he likes to walk into the "earth" shaped news production center, and he is used to going to the The Mexican restaurant bought a Taco for lunch, then stood in front of the railing, watching the crowd below...

This kind of life is suddenly going to leave him?

"No, no, Mr. Adela, there is always a reason. Twitter can't ban our account without a reason. I haven't posted any illegal news recently. This is impossible. There must be something wrong! And this I am not responsible for the Twitter account alone, there are other people who are responsible for this account with me, so you must tell me why, Mr. Adela, otherwise I will resort to the union..."

Billy Adela looked at Andy Posen sympathetically.

In Billy Adela's view, Andy Posen is a very motivated young man. Without this accident, he might be able to get promoted and raise his salary in two years, and he may even be able to sit in his current position. position, and then retired, but it's a pity that now this young guy will have to say goodbye to this decent job...

No matter how much the outside world criticizes CNN, at least in terms of employee benefits, especially the payment of pensions and medical insurance, the company is still very conscientious.

If it's something else, or the union can really help this helpless young man in front of him, but this time...

"Okay Andy, all I can tell you is about the tweet about Ning and Lucasson, unfortunately, I'm pretty sure it was you who tweeted it, you should still have a record on your computer. Okay , It is true that some things have happened and have a great impact. For you, it is actually a wrong multiple-choice question, but this world is like this. Life is not like an exam in school, and it will not give you a chance to correct your mistakes. , if some things happen, you have to bear the consequences, don't make extra troubles, I will give you an excellent evaluation... Well, this is the decision of the 12th floor, so do you understand?"

"Lukasen and Ning? The 12th floor? But this is not everyone's decision?"

"No, no, Andy, it's the account you manage. You are the first responsible person. Don't push this matter to other people. It's not good for you. In the near future, we may need an account to deal with a certain country. Kinder speaker, Andy, it's best for you to leave with dignity, trust me! You can go and find answers, but not here, get it?!"

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When Andy Posen stood outside the CNN building holding a cardboard box full of his personal belongings, the whole person was full of confusion...

Working in CNN, he has seen a lot of drama in life, but he never thought that this drama would really appear on him, let alone that it would be a tragedy. Unprepared unemployment meant that he needed to start over in another place. , This is not good news for a 30-year-old man who is just about to stabilize.

He didn't even know how to break the news to his girlfriend.

There are many super companies in this city, such as Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines...but the only professional counterpart to him is CNN, unless he chooses to start again at the age of 30...

The company's compensation is probably enough for him to live a stable life for a while, but if he can't find a decent job soon, his pension and medical insurance will have problems, especially in the booming economic situation , He didn't graduate from science and engineering, and it seemed that it was not easy to find a decent job with a decent salary. Most importantly, he couldn't figure out what was wrong with that Weibo.

Back at the rented apartment, Andy Posen sat on the sofa, turned on the computer for the first time, and then began to search for Ning Wei’s name on Google. After clicking the next page several times, he finally saw it on a forum. Some news that might clear his mind.

This forum called world often has netizens take screenshots of questions from a question-and-answer platform like Quora in Huaxia, translate them into English, and put them on the forum. According to the forum, there is a strange thing about a question-and-answer platform like Huaxia. name - youknow?

Well, these are minor.

But what Andy Posen saw on the forum made him suddenly enlightened...

"...Professor Ning announced the product vulnerabilities of many top technology companies in the world at one time. The companies involved in these products include Intel, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Oracle..."

Yes, at this moment Andy Posen probably understood why CNN’s Twitter account was suddenly banned, and why the big bosses on top of him chose to compromise with those platforms, and even directly expelled himself. At the same time, he also understood Now, why would Billy Adela say that he needs someone who is more friendly to China in his position...

For a moment, he suddenly felt that his life was ridiculous.

Sure enough, this is a great country, so great that the middle management of a small company like him can silently resist such a big pot...

So those high-ranking people will tell that professor named Ning that they fired themselves to show their favor?

F^K!

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Of course, the bosses don't care about the mental journey of a small and middle-level CNN.

In this world, a lot of people lose their jobs every day, some because of dereliction of duty, and some because of the company's strategic layoffs. numbers.

What they worry about is the overall interests of the company, such as how this incident will end.

The rumors are not terrible, the important thing is that the situation should be within the controllable range, such as before the loopholes spread widely and cause irreparable losses, these loopholes should be blocked in advance, so that this matter can pass quietly...

It's not impossible. For example, Microsoft got the details of the system vulnerabilities and started to fix them.It is said that the price paid is that the system company will provide a specific server version for a special department, and provide the complete source code of the special version system at the same time.The promise is that Microsoft will be able to obtain the platform's vulnerability information about Microsoft's products as soon as other members of the Huaxia Network Security Vulnerability Sharing Platform...

Of course, there may be other benefits, such as more orders may be signed. These are commercial secrets, and Satya Nadella will definitely not announce them.

This situation has irritated many people, but the development process appears to be uneventful.

At least in China, the news that really shocked many people was Huawei’s official high-profile announcement that the company’s 2012 laboratory will set up a new laboratory to formally enter the field of consumer-grade desktop CPU design...

The new laboratory is named Ningsi Laboratory. According to the official announcement, Ningsi Laboratory will cooperate with Huaxia Frontier Intelligence R&D Center to design large-scale general-purpose desktop-level CPUs using three-dimensional silicon full-body chip manufacturing technology.

With a brand-new instruction set and a brand-new architecture, the goal given is to produce a domestically produced U with completely independent intellectual property rights within five years.

Ning Wei forwarded a message on Weibo for the first time and contributed to this official announcement...

Then Huaxia Network quickly exploded...

For ordinary netizens, the focus of attention is on the real and complete independent property rights.

Very exciting. After all, chips have always been one of the shortest boards in China's high-tech industry. Apart from excitement, there are expectations. For a manufacturing powerhouse, the shortage of chips always leads to price increases for many products, which is the most direct for consumers. Bad experience.However, purely domestic products can always help many foreign companies to recognize the reality and learn how to set prices.

Just like two or 30 years ago, when the reputation of domestically produced cars was not obvious, whether it was an imported car or a joint venture car, it has basically become a consensus that if you want to buy a car, you must increase the price. If you want to buy a car, you can't wait to ask for car sales.

30. [-] years later, when domestically produced cars suddenly emerged, even customers who have never considered buying domestically produced cars can truly feel that the prices of vehicles of various brands have become more affordable. Except for a few carriages, few cars dare to look like they used to Blatantly asking for various price increases in disguise.

This is the benefit brought by self-production capacity. For ordinary consumers, even if they regard Intel as their belief, if the same CPU product can be bought for only more than 1000 yuan, it will definitely be more fragrant than spending more than 2000 yuan.

Of course, the most important thing is that this official announcement is really powerful.

There are also very annoying things. In the past, marching into high technology will definitely attract countless cynical comments. This time, there are surprisingly few ironic voices...

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351 Busy and Anticipating

Passion on the Internet comes and goes quickly...

After a week, the discussion began to gradually subside, and soon the discussions on Huaxia Chip began to focus on professional forums, but the discussions were not so enthusiastic.Because for the vast majority of practitioners, what should come has finally come.

When the dust finally settled, the power of a bunch of loopholes that may affect the underlying security of the Internet finally began to show. A group of hard-working programmers, under the guidance of Professor Ning, started a popular overtime life at the end of September.

National Day is around the corner, but for most programmers, it seems that there is no hope of a holiday.To paraphrase the words of a former great commander, this is probably life...

Ning Wei didn't apologize at all, because he felt that he was too busy to explode.

In the third quarter of this year, things suddenly increased.

First of all, it is finally time for the turbulence algorithm to participate in the national science and technology awards.

It's a pity that at this time, Ningwei has no obsession with bonuses, and it doesn't matter whether the turbulence algorithm can be awarded an award.

It is embarrassing that the person in charge of the National Science and Technology Award Office specially called Ning Wei to ask Ning Wei what he meant, whether he would like to participate in the selection of this year's National Highest Science and Technology Award...

To be honest, whether it is the turbulent flow algorithm or the March smart platform, these two inventions have already made Ning Wei eligible for this award, not to mention that he also threw out the king bomb last year - the three-dimensional silicon-through-silicon tube chip architecture.

Combined, these things are more than enough to win prizes.

But for the jury, it is also very tangled when faced with this problem.

Ning Wei is really too young.

The National Highest Science and Technology Award can basically be said to be a lifetime achievement award similar to the Wolf Award.In the past, the youngest person with the highest science and technology award was nearly [-]. Receiving this award is basically an affirmation of scientists' contributions to China over the years.

For example, Mr. Yuan was 70 years old when he won the award. For example, Mr. Gu, who participated in the design of various aircraft in China, was close to 90 years old when he won the award...

A 24- or 5-year-old young man suddenly slipped into the ranks of these older scientists, which is somewhat contrary.The headache is that there was no age limit in the application conditions for the highest science and technology awards before, and it also specifically stipulates that one must still be active at the forefront of contemporary science and technology and engage in scientific research or technological development.

Of course, these older scientists don't mind Ning Wei getting this award.

There are more than 130 institutions and experts qualified to recommend this year's National Science and Technology Award, of which Ning Wei's name appeared more than 30 times. In other words, many of them are older scientists who have won the highest award and are still alive. recommended……

This made it very difficult for the jury. If the final candidate has Ning Wei, it is no problem to get more than half of the votes. But if he wins the highest award now, what will happen in the future?After all, for a normal person at the peak of his physiology, Ning Wei is still far from the time when his intelligence and thinking are truly mature, and the road ahead is too long.

In a dilemma, Director Xu, the person in charge of the Office of Science and Technology Awards, simply called Ning Wei.

The words of greeting may be a bit vague, but the translation is actually just one sentence: "Professor Ning, do you want this award this year? If so, you will definitely be selected for this award this year, or you may as well judge this award after you turn 30, anyway. Definitely get it."

It is difficult to decide here, so I simply leave it to the parties to decide.This kind of thing has indeed never happened, but there is no way, the results are too outstanding, and it looks like it won’t convince the public if you don’t give it, and it looks like you don’t know how to reward it after you give it.

After glancing at the winner of the highest technology award, Ning Wei decisively refused.

It is indeed a bit embarrassing.

After all, the bigwigs who have won these awards have all worked in their respective research fields for decades, and it is indeed a bit eye-catching for him to rush forward suddenly.

The main reason is that he is not short of money now, and the reward of 800 million is not so important.And reputation, to be honest, Ning Wei didn't pay much attention to it.

If it is necessary to talk about Ning Wei's pursuit of reputation, he still hopes that the award named after him in the future will become the most important scientific and technological award in the world, surpassing the Nobel, Fields, and Wolf Awards kind of.

However, Ningwei still has something to gain. Although the selection of the highest award was launched, Director Xu on the opposite side also hinted that Ningwei still has a lot to gain in national science and technology awards this year. For example, the turbulence algorithm will definitely win the National Science Progress Award, Three-dimensional silicon-through-silicon tube technology is bound to win the National Science and Technology Invention Award, and his thesis at the STOC conference, as well as his achievements in promoting strong artificial intelligence, are enough to win the National Natural Science Award.

This phone call probably told Ning Wei that autumn has come to the harvest season.

In addition, there is actually another big event. Ning Wei's name has appeared in this year's academician supplementary candidate list, and it has been announced.

Although academicians from both academies recommended Ning Wei, in the end Ning Wei only appeared on the list of the Academy of Natural Sciences.

This is probably what the bosses meant. According to official information, Ning Wei has not yet passed his 25th birthday. It is indeed not appropriate to have a double academician at this time.

In addition, the achievements of outstanding young people have also passed the acceptance test. Before being judged as an academician, Ning Wei also now has the title of Outstanding Youth of China on his title.Baidu Encyclopedia immediately added this title.

Of course, these are not the most troublesome things for Ning Wei, he just needs to take a car to go out and make some testimonials.

The point was that it was almost October, and he had to start choosing his students.Not the students of Ning's class, but his first direct doctoral students.

This matter is very important to Ning Wei.If the students are selected well, it is very easy to train the tutors, and the students can also have a good time during this period; if the students are not selected well, it may be hurting each other for several years.

It's as if he read Tian Yan as a straight Ph. The kind of students who can't learn how to choose a topic are very troublesome, and it is a headache not to let the child graduate...

Especially since this is the first batch of students he brought, the meaning is even more different. It can be said that everyone has high hopes, and he himself hopes to have a group of capable and trustworthy assistants in three to five years.

So Ning Wei had to disperse part of his energy and maintain communication with the students. Before this matter was left to March.Sanyue did work hard to score these students, but March's modeling was too rational, purely through past grades and interactive emails, these students made the most rational suggestions for the understanding of Ningwei's previous papers Model judgment.

In other words, the grades in March only judge the learning, memory, and comprehension abilities of these students, and the relationship between people is not only these, but also whether the personality is suitable, although these can wait until the interview in October to make a decision , but through daily email exchanges, Ningwei can have a more comprehensive understanding of these students.

Yes, the interviews for Ningwei’s direct Ph.D. students have been scheduled on the 9th and 10th two days after the National Day. The main reason is that the number of places is too high. It is basically impossible to have a place for graduate students. Recommendations come like snowflakes Xin, the doubling quota has already been filled up early, and those who can enjoy the recommendation letter treatment are all top students from various schools, so naturally it has been confirmed early that they can get the exemption qualification...

In addition to the selection of students next month, there are also invitation letters from many top universities. I hope that Ning Wei can go to the school during this time to give a lecture or something.In fact, to put it bluntly, I want Ning Wei to go to school and get acquainted with the students recommended by his family first, so that he can be more confident during the interview.

Other schools are easy to talk about, and they can simply refuse, but Jiang University first called from Dean Kong, who sincerely invited Ning Wei to return to the School of Mathematics. Thinking about my alma mater in this golden autumn season, the kindness is hard to refuse!

In addition, Ning's class has started. It's the first time for Senior Brother Zhou to be a counselor, and he insists on doing work reports every day. It's not good to talk to him, or to ignore him.

The Ningsi laboratory that Huawei is preparing to build often needs to coordinate with him on some technical issues. He also wants to design the instruction set as soon as possible to build a ladder for Ningsi's subsequent chip design work.

In addition, Ning Si may also send a group of people to study under the banner of assisting research...

All the time added up one by one, and Ning Wei felt that he really wanted to blow himself up.

Every day when I open my eyes, I have to be busy with various things.I used to check the mailbox for a week, but now I have to check it twice a day, look at the emails replied by the students, and even accept some rainbow farts; then I started to build the entire instruction set system with March, from time to time Let March carry out digital simulation, can it run more efficiently...

During this period, there are often constant phone calls, and every call seems to be very important, because the discussions are still about big events, or some more important meeting invitations, he has to think about how to politely refuse, as for the previously agreed to carry out systematic research on physics The study plan has been passively thrown out of the sky.

Even though he was so busy, Ning Wei still decided to go back to Jiang University.After all, it was his old alma mater...

However, there is really no time on weekdays, so I decided to go there during the National Day holiday.

Anyway, I was only invited to give a speech. Whether the students go to listen or not is completely voluntary. By the way, I will meet the math student recommended to him by Dean Kong...

Of course, what's more important is that during the holidays, he can still take classmate Jiang around Jiangcheng openly and aboveboard, and he can take classmate Jiang to have a look at the places where he has studied and lived. It's quite impressive to think about it.

In addition, Ning Wei also made a decision to free Yu Xingwei from the tedious teaching affairs of Ning's class and let him stay here in the laboratory. Those direct PhD students.

Yu Xingwei is fully competent in teaching some basic courses.

The only thing that made Ning Wei hesitate was that he still didn't know what Yu Xingwei was thinking.Why do you want to focus on research or teaching? Although you can choose both, but the two have been together for a long time, and Ning Wei also knows that although Yu Xingwei's ability can be considered excellent, if he really distracts his energy, he wants to work on both sides. It is still relatively difficult to achieve results, which requires a focus.

It is not easy to help Yu Xingwei make a decision on this one. Now Yu Xingwei temporarily belongs to the lecturer sequence of Yanbei University. According to the school's regulations, the main teaching series positions like Yu Xingwei adopt the job performance salary system, and the basic salary The welfare is borne by the school; the employment cost of the research technology series positions is mainly borne by the departments or research groups.

So now Yu Xingwei should still be able to meet his salary.

If you can get the basic salary from the school, Ning Wei will include it in your own research research group, and you can also get about 60 research subsidies and Ning class teacher allowances every month. The income of [-] is basically no worse than that of many professors at Yanbei University.

But that is compared with teaching positions. With Yu Xingwei's current qualifications and level, if he goes to some technology companies, he should be able to earn more.So Ning Wei decided to go to the specialized school on the last day of September, have an in-depth talk with Yu Xingwei, and discuss the National Day arrangements with classmate Jiang by the way.

September was still a little too tense, and Ning Wei felt that he could also relieve his mood.

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September 31st, Yanbei International Mathematical Research Center.

Today was a sunny day, and Ning Wei rushed back to school from the laboratory early in the morning.

In fact, I wanted to go back to school last night, but I worked too late. Regarding the addressing problem caused by the internal structure of a processor, I still couldn’t find a good solution. I accidentally discussed it with March until the early morning, and finally I don't even want to take a shower, I just climb into bed and go to sleep, let alone make a special trip.

So delayed until today.

Rushing back to school, Ning Wei first glanced outside the classroom where Ning's class was in class.

Because it is a small class, the professional courses of Ning's class are basically arranged directly in the classroom of the research center, which is upstairs from Ningwei's office.

The feeling is still very good. Most of the children listened very carefully. Of course, there are some exceptions. For example, Ning Wei saw several people buried their heads in writing the questions, and then wrote down the names in a small notebook...

It's just what the head teacher in high school liked to do most, but now that Ning Wei has learned it, it feels very touching.

Then Ning Wei invited Yu Xingwei to his office.