Reborn Brazil as a Plutocrat
Chapter 217 Konrad Zuse
Even the cold wind on the streets of Zurich could not extinguish Fang Lang's enthusiasm. He kept walking and stopping all the way, and unknowingly arrived outside the University of Zurich.
Looking at the historical university in front of him, Fang Lang was filled with envy and asked the assistant beside him:
"Do you know this university?"
The assistant is a young German immigrant from the third generation. He looks very handsome with blond hair. He was able to enter Fangyuan Group and became one of Fang Lang's assistants. He graduated from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
However, the founding time and historical and cultural heritage of the University of São Paulo are definitely incomparable with the University of Zurich in front of us.
This is like the sense of déjà vu a later college student would have when he visits Tsinghua University.
The assistant was looking at the world-famous school in front of him with a bright face. After hearing Fang Lang's question, he nodded quickly and said:
"Boss, of course I know, this is Einstein's alma mater."
Fang Lang looked at the longing expression on his assistant's face, smiled and said:
"Let's go in and visit."
The full name of the University of Zurich is ETH Zurich. The old campus is located in the center of Zurich and is completely integrated with the city. There are no school gates or walls.
Therefore, Fang Lang, a man of two generations, had the opportunity to visit for the first time. I wonder if it was because of the cold weather. Except for the occasional young man, not many people passed by outside the school.
It looks a little deserted, but Fang Lang can see through the window of the teaching building that there are students studying in class. In this case, it is certainly not easy for Fang Lang to enter the teaching building to visit and study.
"You think, how about we build a university like this in Brazil?"
Stopping and walking along the way, Fang Lang asked the assistant beside him.
"Ah!"
The assistant beside him was looking around in confusion, not knowing how to answer Fang Lang's question.
Fang Lang actually didn't want to hear the answer from the assistant's mouth.
However, he is already thinking about building a research university in Rio Grande do Sul to serve his family. In the future, the Chinese will have the opportunity to directly learn the world's cutting-edge scientific knowledge.
I don’t know if he was thinking about how to answer Fang Lang’s question, but the assistant who was looking around accidentally bumped into a middle-aged white man about thirty-six or seventeen years old.
A stack of documents in the white man's hand was scattered on the floor. When the assistant saw this, he quickly stepped forward and apologized non-stop, and bent down to help the man pick up the documents on the floor.
Fang Lang also looked embarrassed, and bent down to help pick up the information on the ground. The information was all in German, and Fang Lang couldn't understand it, but one of the drawings caught Fang Lang's attention.
Because the buttons drawn on this drawing were actually marked with numbers and symbols for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, Fang Lang was shocked and his heart beat wildly.
Are computers already available in this era? Unfortunately, Fang Lang did not major in computer science or electronic engineering. Therefore, Fang Lang did not understand the time when computers appeared.
But looking at the drawings in front of him, Fang Lang felt that even if this was not a computer, it was definitely a calculator.
I just don’t know whether this thing is purely mechanical or electronic.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Fang Lang cleared his throat and said:
"Sir, I apologize to you for my assistant's recklessness!"
The assistant beside him also quickly translated. The middle-aged man raised his head and glanced at Fang Lang and the few people standing behind Fang Lang. Hearing the assistant's words, he understood that the young yellow man in front of him was his boss.
He smiled very gently, nodded to Fang Lang and said:
"It doesn't matter, and I can't blame him. I think it's his first time coming to this university like me.
Therefore, it is normal for attention to be distracted."
Hearing the other party say that it was also his first time coming to this university, Fang Lang was stunned. He looked at the information in his hand and then at the other party's appearance.
Judging from his age, he is definitely not a student. I thought he was a teacher in this school.
"Oh! Sir, aren't you a professor at this school?"
The middle-aged white man said while sorting out the information in his hands:
"No, I just moved to Switzerland from Germany. I encountered a small problem in my research and wanted to come to Zurich Institute of Technology for some help."
Fang Lang looked at the information in the other person's hand and felt a little hot. Could it be that he had met a wild scientist?
Wasn't the computer invented in the United States?
Did this guy later go to the United States to develop?
"Oh! Are you studying computers?"
Fang Lang's words obviously shocked the white man in front of him. He looked up at Fang Lang with wide eyes and said with an expression of disbelief:
"You know computers?"
Of course Fang Lang knows about computers, but what he knows is the computers of later generations.
As for whether the current computer has appeared, he really is not particularly sure, but he clearly remembers that when he visited Bell Labs, the transistor had not yet been successfully researched.
Even if there are electronic computers in this period, they must be tube computers, but I don’t know how good their performance is.
I don’t know the specific situation, but this does not prevent Fang Lang from bragging.
"Of course, Bell Labs, which I invested in in the United States, is engaged in related research work."
In fact, the first electronic computer in the United States was born at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States in 1946, and it has nothing to do with Bell Labs.
However, in Fang Lang's mind, Bell Labs is the greatest existence of this era, so he did not hesitate to put this hat on Bell Labs' head.
"You are saying that there are other people in the world who are engaged in related research."
The middle-aged white man's reaction was a bit beyond Fang Lang's expectations, and he couldn't help but start beating the drum in his heart. The United States hasn't started researching computers yet!
It’s too much of a pretense, but it’s a little embarrassing.
But the words had already been spoken, and Fang Lang certainly couldn't back down, nor could he answer the other party's question directly, so he could only ask:
"Hey! Haven't you communicated with your colleagues?"
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Fang Lang's question obviously hit the man's pain point.
The man's face turned red and he said sheepishly:
"I used to live in Germany and had very little communication with other countries in the world. Therefore, I didn't know that other countries were also engaged in related research."
He took a serious look at the man in front of him. He had a meticulously slicked back, wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and the coat on his body looked quite neat.
But Fang Lang can also see that the other party's economic conditions are not particularly good.
After slowly thinking about it in his mind, Fang Lang reached out to the other party and introduced himself politely:
"Hello! My name is Fang Lang, Brazilian and Chinese. I wonder if I would be honored to invite you for a cup of coffee."
The middle-aged white man obviously wanted to get some latest news about computers from Fang Lang, so he said without hesitation:
"Of course, my name is Konrad Zuse. I'm glad to meet you. I hope I can ask you some latest news about electronic computers."
After the two exchanged polite greetings, they went directly to a roadside cafe.
The environment of the cafe was very nice, and the two of them found a corner seat against the wall and sat down.
Originally, Konrad Zuse wanted to find a seat by the window, but Fang Lang now has a kind of persecution delusion and feels that there are always unscrupulous people who want to harm me.
So, I hid in a hidden corner of the wall.
"Mr. Chu Ze, I wonder to what extent your computer research has reached and has it been applied?"
In order to take the initiative in the conversation, Fang Lang took the lead and asked about Konrad Zuse's research progress.
Because Fang Lang was the first person who could communicate with him about electronic computer technology, Konrad Zuse did not hide anything and answered directly:
"I started studying computers in 1938. The latest progress is the Z-4 electromagnetic electronic computer successfully developed in 1945. The memory unit has also been expanded from the 64 bits of the Z-3 to 1024 bits.
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As for applications, the previous generation Z-3 has been used by us to conduct data analysis on the jitter stability of aircraft wings, and it has been of great use."
Hearing this answer, Fang Lang's heart was filled with turmoil. Isn't this the perfect template for the protagonist?
You can encounter great masters wherever you go. At this moment, Fang Lang's eyes began to shine, or in other words, Konrad Zuse was a shining treasure in Fang Lang's eyes.
When the other party talked about data analysis, Fang Lang recalled some memories about computers. He remembered that during World War II, there was a Turing Award for computers in later generations. The name of this award comes from a scientist named Turing.<
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The research done by this scientist seems to be about computers, but unlike Konrad Zuse's direction, the main application direction of Turing computers seems to be code deciphering.
It seems that the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom had computer technology during this period, and the United States and the United Kingdom must also have it.
It seems that his own confidence has not been blown, but Fang Lang has no way to determine the specific progress of British and American computer technology research.
But one thing is certain, the Mr. Konrad Zuse in front of him is definitely a heavyweight figure in the history of computers.
I must not let such a person escape from me. Just now I was thinking about establishing an experimental university of my own. Why not start by establishing a computer research laboratory to establish a research university.
"Mr. Chuze, as far as I know, during the war, a British scientist named Turing developed a computer that was used to decipher German codes.
As for who is faster and who is slower in terms of your research progress, this is not something I can understand.
However, I have to say that you must be a genius scientist, because there is a certain degree of communication between British and American scientists, but you actually succeeded in doing research by yourself in Germany."
Fang Lang gave a thumbs up to the middle-aged man in front of him.
But after hearing Fang Lang's words, the other party said a little decadently:
"Unfortunately, my Z-4 computer has been moved away by the British. Now I can only conduct some research on computer software theory."
After hearing the theory of computer software, Fang Lang was even more convinced that the middle-aged man opposite him was definitely a treasure, a super big treasure.
Isn’t this programming?
Fang Lang is very clear about the role of programming in future computers.
At this moment, Fang Lang's idea was to kidnap the man in front of him, Mr. Conrad Zuse, to Brazil.
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