Chinese entertainment for engineering students

Shuimu University, Main Building, East Wing, Wang Xu Laboratory.

Wang Xu's laboratory only has four rooms in total, two of which are large rooms, and the smaller one is Wang Xu's independent office. Wang Xu is not here all year round, so his assistant usually takes care of it.

Director Jiang and Professor Luo Congwen used another office to work, and there were also offices for several doctors, which seemed a little crowded.

Especially today, because Professor Yan also came here to get information. Although he could just find a doctor to do this, who made him want to know about Wang Xu's current situation with Director Jiang.

"What is Wang Xu busy with recently? He is a professor, so why can't he see anyone? Which project is his project? There are so many things." Professor Yan looked at the piles of documents in front of him and knew That boy Wang Xu is causing trouble again.

"He should be busy making movies now. He is very enthusiastic. It feels like he is more interested in it than doing scientific research.

Some results have been achieved so far. I have been to his film and television base, and if you don’t look carefully, you can’t tell it’s a set. It’s amazing. "Director Jiang and Professor Yan were sitting on the sofa smoking. There was a sofa, a coffee table, and they could drink tea. This is already top-notch treatment in Shuimu's office.

“He just likes those literary and artistic things, but his artistic attainments are not lower than his scientific level, and they are also top-notch in the world.

I don’t know much about art, but I often listen to comments from professionals in various fields, including Professor Jin from the Conservatory of Music, who is one of the top music experts in the country.

Whether it's music or painting, people's evaluations are the same, and the songs I listen to are also great. Almost all of his wife's songs are written by him. Speaking of which, I can be regarded as a fan of their young couple.

Since he dares to make a movie this time, it means that his level is not bad. "Professor Yan still trusts Wang Xu as always. He didn't even need to investigate, and he could guess that Wang Xu would not start the film project at all if he was not sure.

"I feel the same way. Although this kid may be unreasonable, but if you want to say that he is unreliable, then there really is no reliable person."

Director Jiang may actually know more about Wang Xu than Professor Yan. Although he does not have as many private contacts as Wang Xu and Professor Yan, he can see the confidential materials. How could there be less comments about Wang Xu in them.

"You said on the phone that he has launched a new project. What are they?" Professor Yan brought the topic back to the topic. It is almost normal to talk about Wang Xu without finishing it. Anyone can start the conversation. He can talk for a long time.

"He compiled this pile a while ago. Yuzhuo and I took a rough look at it. There are many of them that are suitable for you. Let you pick them first. After all, you are your mother's family here, but you can also do what you can. The above have already criticized Wang Xu's creativity in Shuimu Monopoly.

So, you pick a few good ones first, and help the others to figure out what kind of charter they should be.

Divide it as much as possible. There is a lot of money from patents this year, so you can plan it carefully. Nowadays, life in various universities is not very easy. Although there is a serious talent gap, there are still many young scholars who are very pursuing. "

As Director Jiang spoke, he pushed a large pile of materials in front of Professor Yan. Of course, there was also a stack of three-inch floppy disks, which were electronic files.

Wang Xu used open source projects to develop countless products, and these products naturally produced a variety of electronic documents.

In order to unify the format of these documents so that they can browse and even reference each other, Wang Xu designed a number of open interfaces in the middle so that people can easily unify the information format.

The 1990s was the most complex era of various document types. At this time, the Internet was not yet so popular, and a large number of document transmissions still relied on floppy disks. Major software companies had not yet divided their territories, let alone completed acquisitions and integration operations.

Therefore, various document formats can be said to be flying everywhere. Naturally, Wang Xu also has a headache, so he drew on the XML of later generations and directly developed an XML-based tagged document embedding rule system, so that all documents can Interoperability based on the same standard system.

You can keep your document format confidential, but you must provide interfaces and applications that can be connected.

It also defines new standard binary formats for commonly used vector formats, scalar formats, image formats, video formats, image compression formats, video compression formats, printing formats, etc. Anyway, it includes everything he can think of. .

Judging from the current popularity of open source products, at least it will not be like the situation in later generations, because a document format is stuck in various ways.

He even designed some brand-new printer systems based on micromachining and thin film processing technology. Well, the general principle is that although it is not possible to directly print out chips yet, there is still no problem in printing text images with fixed colors.

After all, if you think about it, even a high-definition image with a resolution of 3000dpi is on the order of 1/100 millimeter, which is a millimeter. This is an order of magnitude different from integrated circuit units such as microns and nanometers.

Wang Xu provided a specific design idea. The basis was the micromechanical structure produced by the growth method, coupled with the color system developed by Wang Xu in the Department of Chemistry, and four-color and six-color inkjet printers were developed. It's really not that difficult.

Although these things are inconspicuous, the market is very large. They are widely used in ordinary homes and offices. Epson, Canon and HP have all made a lot of money from this thing.

What Wang Xu did is not completely consistent with their technical route. The patent rights can be controlled by himself. If foreign countries don’t know about it, at least they can sell a lot domestically.

Large-format and even giant-format printers support several large electronics companies. Especially large-format wide-format printers are the first step in industrial digitization.

At the same time, it is also the basis for the popularity of various large-scale flat advertisements. This thing is much better than using photos.

Wang Xu had thrown this thing to Senior Brother Yuzhuo a long time ago. Now in his eyes, an invention of this level is simply not something that should be taken seriously. It is said that the Precision Instrument Department is very interested and is working on it. That's half a year.

The establishment of various standardizations has actually provided a lot of convenience for Wang Xu's various operations. At least now, he doesn't have to worry about taking out a document and people don't know how to open it, and Wang Xu no longer has to carry heavy printed manuscripts. Ran everywhere.

On Shuimu's side, all employees have been quickly replacing Tongfang workstations. The office and scientific tools that can be run on this are much easier to use than those pirated ones.

It’s not that they don’t exist on PC, but that CDs haven’t emerged on a large scale yet, so piracy is still at the stage of copying floppy disks from each other.

Even in college, it is quite difficult to find some software.

The software companies in Chou Country are all focused on Chou Country. China doesn't even know what new software has been born.

Therefore, although the various software that Wang Xu created was full of bugs and not that easy to use, it really solved many people's problems, and there really weren't too many complaints.

After all, most of them are written by students. In terms of user-friendliness, the fluency of use cannot be compared with real commercial software, and the users are also people in the industry, so at most they can't be bothered by themselves.

But even in the near future, this will no longer be a problem.

As far as Wang Xu knows, various universities and research institutes have established dozens or hundreds of various software companies, focusing on detailing these software products and using the core of open source to launch their own packaging products.

There are even independent office software, financial software, database software, CAD software and the like already on the market. It is said that the sales are not bad, at least in China.

A few years ago, the old man said that computers should be started from childhood, which made the whole country enthusiastic about learning and using computers. If the price of computers were not too high, it would have formed a wave long ago.

But even this is not bad. Various imported and domestic compatible machines also appear on a large scale in enterprises, institutions and governments across the country.

Because of COS's good adaptability to Chinese characters and convenient graphical interface, the country is very interested in this operating system, but now this operating system does not support pure PCs very well.

Graphics use too many floating-point operations and require an independent co-processing card to run very smoothly.

In fact, GIT also has a special project to adapt to pure PCs, but the progress is not very fast and is mainly improved by the contributions of volunteers.

If this thing enters the PC market in China, it will face competition from DOS + Windows. If it succeeds, it may ruin Wintel's plans.

Therefore, even when it first came out, it has been subject to many restrictions, and various negative news about the COS operating system has never stopped.

In fact, this was also caused by Wang Xu not investing any energy at all. He would not run this kind of business himself. He didn't have the skills.

Microsoft is actually very powerful now. It can almost be said to dominate the PC field, all over the world.

As for China, it is almost the world dominated by the combination of pirated DOS + WINDOWS.

In terms of installed capacity, COS's market share may not even be one percent.

However, the architecture of Tongfang workstation is public, and the first generation uses Intel processors. Wang Xu has not stopped other U.S. companies from manufacturing compatible models according to that standard.

It’s just that the market is really small now. Only a few emerging companies dedicated to server manufacturing use this architecture and use the COS operating system. Who makes this network application rich? It is almost a one-stop solution.

All this has to wait for the completion of the second phase of supercomputing. Various chips will be independently designed and manufactured. Even if the manufacturing is poor, the workstation model formed by stacking chips can still become the main office and work machine.

At most, it is a bit more expensive, but its performance is good. Therefore, the country is not in a hurry to carry out large-scale promotion, but the promotion of universities and colleges is still very effective. Tongfang, Founder and Inspur have all made less money.

The two of them just went off topic while talking, and then brought it back to continue talking, but there were almost endless topics surrounding Wang Xuke.

"Wang Xu is really capable, why does he have so many fantastic ideas.

You said that the first phase of the growth method over there still has projects that have not yet been completed, but the second phase has already caught up.

In the second phase of supercomputing, this time even central processing units and image processors have been approved.

It is said that he created a brand new RISC-1 architecture, but he has no intention of taking the lead. The architecture itself is open source and can be used by anyone. Wang Xu has already thrown it on GIT.

I looked at it, and to be honest, I didn’t understand it. "Professor Yan lamented Wang Xu's troubles. He already knew the most about Wang Xu's abilities, but he still couldn't see the bottom of this person.

“As long as there is someone who understands it, the research and development plan for specific models can be handed over to the higher-ups for overall planning.

It would be nice for Mizuki to get involved in this. It would be better to run it as a company. I guess the higher-ups will consider it this way. I have already submitted those things and I think there will be results soon.

What the above means is that if you want to break the ice now, it's best not to be too ostentatious. The Chou Country is keeping a close eye on us. We are still too weak overall. The strategy of hiding one's strength and biding one's time needs to continue, and the central purpose of economic construction cannot be Change.

Therefore, we here should appropriately broaden the scope of the project and cooperate with a wider range of universities.

Shuimu has had a head start for two years, and it’s time to open it up to more schools. It’s okay to slow down the project progress, but our explosion is a bit too much, and it’s easy to attract red eyes. "Director Jiang quickly reminded Professor Yan not to be too greedy.

"There are indeed such concerns. It doesn't matter to us. The school has agreed?" Professor Yan is now a full professor and deputy department chair. His position is very stable. After two years, it is likely that he will be promoted to department chair.

It can be said that the changes in the automation department have been rapid in the past two years, and all the changes are due to his initial insight. If nothing else, based on this achievement, it is impossible for Mizuki and the automation department to treat him badly.

However, he is now a little greedy. He knows that he is not a scientific research master in the true sense. If it were not for his father's glory, and because he has been abroad and has some international vision, he used to be a deputy deputy director. The position of department chair is out of the question.

But that’s all his academic achievements, and it’s probably a bit doubtful to think about becoming an academician. After all, there are several internationally renowned scholars in the Department of Automation, and several of his projects are highly practical and scientific. The sexual kind.

The Blu-ray project is more prominent, but that's about it. Wang Xu has analyzed this project. At a large scale, it would be worthy of a Nobel Prize, but at a small scale, it is just an industrialized product.

This depends on the international attitude towards China, rather than the actual level of scientific research.

Wang Xu’s graphene project is worthy of the Nobel Prize. Whether it can win it also depends on the international environment.

But the current situation is enough to send him a smooth journey to become an academician of the Academy of Sciences. Now he is too young, and he is only about 20 years old.

Moreover, Wang Xu has been involved in too many things, and he has not yet cleared them all. He was promoted too quickly and became the target of public criticism. Everyone will notice him.

The advice given above is to be cautious before proceeding, otherwise Shuimudu plans to give it directly to professors this year, and then apply for academicianship next year.

Professor Duan will probably get into it if he perseveres. After all, he is an internationally renowned person for his continued research on graphene. He also specializes in scanning electron microscopy and has independently published several articles in less than two years.

It is not too much to produce two academicians for such a project.

The blue light project is different, although the project was researched by three professors from the Department of Electronics, Materials and Automation and the experiment was ultimately successful.

But the corresponding author and first author of the Nature paper was Wang Xu, and the professors in the three departments were all second authors.

After all, Wang Xu no longer accounts for the quota. In other words, with good luck, three people can become an academician of the Academy of Engineering.

But when it comes to their contributions, Professor Yan does not have the upper hand, but the professor from the Department of Electronics has the upper hand. He has published several high-quality papers based on blue light, including blue semiconductor lasers. He did it all.

It is really unjustifiable not to give an academician an achievement of this level.

In the Department of Electronics, with various new materials produced by growth methods, papers are pouring out. It is really better than anyone else. Well, in terms of the number of papers, only the Department of Chemistry can compete.

The growth method can definitely produce an academician. Although it is kept secret from the outside world and the paper only publishes theory, internally everyone knows the importance of this method.

But everyone knows that the position belongs to Lao Bian, and it should be him emotionally and logically. After all, he has invested the most energy.

It's a pity for Lao Gu. Although he is the general manager of the growth method project, anyone with a discerning eye knows that he is mainly responsible for project administration. However, there is no problem if he is a professor, but it is not a problem to be an academician. It's possible.

Based on this calculation, in the next few years, Shuimu will have at least four more academicians, and there will definitely be one from Supercomputer. This guy will make other institutions even more anxious.

"In addition, the funding for national defense is extremely tight now, and many projects have been cut. I talked with Wang Xu once, and he said that we can bring together those digital research institutes to work on some things. Many things are originally dual-use for military and civilian purposes.

If you don’t have money now, you may not always have money in the future. On the one hand, you can train your team, and on the other hand, you can also reduce the burden on the country.

He also agreed, and even created a few special projects and made a lot of suggestions, all of which I submitted.

But outside, it's still the same. Just pretend that he doesn't know, and neither do you. They will most likely change their name and use the cover of a scientific research institute to undertake the project. "Director Jiang continued to introduce the situation, especially introducing some exceptions to Professor Yan.

"Well, I understand. It has its own meaning. Do we need to take special care of it?" Professor Yan immediately heard the song and knew its elegant meaning.

"That's not necessary. They actually have a serious talent gap. The battle in 1991 made them a little confused, and they are very anxious now.

It is estimated that we will cooperate with Shuimu to provide some special orientation training classes at all levels. Anyway, there are many operating methods. Under the same conditions, try to tilt it as much as possible.

Their life is even harder than in college. "Director Jiang sighed, which is rare, isn't it? If you look at future generations of generals crying bitterly on TV shows, you'll know what kind of life they are living now.

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(See you tomorrow)