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Of course, the scoring for a world-wide award cannot be judged casually. In fact, after the scores are given, according to the rules, Ningwei must evaluate the research results of all these candidates this year in detail, and then give the criteria for giving this score. reason.

Moreover, these evaluations must be published on the official website for everyone to check after the candidates are determined.

Of course, with the help of March, these textual work actually does not need to take Ningwei too much time. All he needs to do is to roughly browse the results achieved by these candidates in a year, and then explain the reasons for his scoring. March Then based on Ning Wei's words, transform it into more pertinent and less offensive language.

"Zhang Dingxi's paper "Discussion on 3D Optical Environment and 6-DoF Virtual Reality Point Cloud Visual Quality and Implementation Scheme for Multi-Target Tracking" has been cited 2,637 times in just six months, and 80% of it has been cited. The paper was included in a journal in the first region, which is enough for Zhang Dingxi’s contribution to this field last year.”

"In addition, Zhang Dingxi's two conference papers, "Measurement and Application Method of Binocular Color Fusion Boundary under a Stereoscopic Display" and "A Review of Virtual Stereo Content Generation Technology for Ultra-Multiple Viewpoint Light Fields" solved two extremely complex light sources. Show conundrum, it's totally reasonable for me to give him a nine as his mentor during the year."

“Although Elton’s research on heterogeneous data sources has made breakthrough progress, from an application perspective, it is obviously not convincing enough to give me a reason to give him a high score, and he is still explaining his results. There are many doubts about the paper at the SOSP conference that have not been explained clearly. My doubts about that paper are as follows:..."

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Previously, Ning Wei was unwilling to rate candidates for the March Award in related majors, for various reasons.

Laziness is part of it.

It’s not easy to be a judge. After all, the March Prize is not like the Nobel Prize, where the jury meets to vote. Each expert’s scoring criteria can be different, but if it is to be adopted by the March algorithm for scoring, at least all the awards must be evaluated. The candidate's research results are understood and the reasons for the rating are given.

This means that you have to take the time to read the candidates' papers, understand the research directions and ideas of these candidates, and give the reasons for your own ratings. I'm so busy with my own affairs, how can I have time to see anything else?

The situation is different now. The CPU area that he needs to be responsible for has come to an end. The subsequent tape-out, testing, and even final mass production, as well as upgrading the process to improve the yield rate, etc., all require the team to continuously accumulate experience. In this process, March can play a far greater role than him.

Summarizing lessons through continuous accumulation of experience, gradually improving the production process, reducing costs and increasing the yield rate, this is what the machine is best at. Because these involve the sorting and analysis of huge production data. In the past, data was collected and sorted by machines and then handed over to people for analysis; now with March, I can analyze the data myself and give directional suggestions.

So Ning Wei really has time recently, and he has nothing to do anyway.

The other thing is the response that got angry.

As Ning Wei said, one must have the magnanimity to learn to be a scholar. If one does not praise one's own students, one would obviously be at a loss if someone calls him a disciple.

He has different ideas from other famous bosses. If there is any stigma, the bosses may want to keep a lower profile to avoid confirming the slanderous words, but they would rather not have any psychological burden in this regard. Since everyone says so, then just do it and give It is also fun to send more ammunition and excuses to the other party, and then sit back and watch the group of people get upset or even jump in anger.

accurate?

Come and bite him if you don't like it!

Watching a group of people feel extremely unhappy and helpless is one of the great joys of life. It can recuperate the body and mind, although it is suspected of being a bad taste.

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With a new direction and renewed fighting spirit, Zhang Dingxi, who was busy in the laboratory, originally didn't want to answer the phone, but helplessly, the phone started buzzing non-stop five minutes ago. He thought it was nothing serious, but when he saw a After answering one phone call after another, even the junior sister's name appeared on the screen. She had no choice but to pause the experiment, took off her gloves and answered the phone first.

"Zhang Dingxi, don't say anything else. Please have dinner! The group has already discussed it. This week, no, we will have enough food for a month."

As soon as the call was connected, he heard junior sister Li Jingwen's voice coming from the receiver. This made Zhang Dingxi a little confused. What does it mean? I was so annoyed that I simply choked: "No, are you all crazy? I haven't robbed a bank recently, why should I treat you foodies like me for a month?"

"Bah, Senior Brother Zhang, have you installed it yet? You should have received the notice in advance, right? Even if you didn't receive the notice, Director Ning must have mentioned it to you, and it's okay to keep hiding it from us. Now it's still Why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf? Do you have a lot of food for a month?" The other person responded not to be outdone.

These words also made Zhang Dingxi even more confused.

What was the notification?

Several people held a meeting the day before yesterday to re-formulate the solution for the next three-dimensional frame display. In the past two days, he went to the laboratory early in the morning and was busy until late at night before returning to the dormitory. It seems like you haven’t received any serious notification?

As for Director Ning...

Because of various feelings of shame, he has been hiding from Director Ning, holding back his anger, thinking that he would report to Director Ning properly when he really made achievements. When encountering difficulties that cannot be solved, he would not take the initiative to trouble Director Ning. Moreover, Director Ning had indeed not come to him recently, so what did he mention?

"I said, little junior sister, please stop showing off, okay? What's going on? I really didn't receive any notice!"

"Bah, bah, bah! Just pretend! I don't believe the March Award Organizing Committee didn't call you in advance! You won this year's March Computer Award, and no one shared it with you. One person won the three million prize. Treating us to a month's worth of meals won't hurt your muscles and bones, right?"

"What? Me? March Computer Award? Today is not April Fool's Day, don't take it for granted!"

"Who is teasing you? Go to the official website and read it yourself. The group chat has exploded. @Your many messages have not exploded you. Lao Zhou and Lao Chen have called you but you have not answered. I I just made the call, I won’t say anything anymore, just go and see it yourself!”

"ah……"

"Haha, congratulations, Senior Brother Zhang! Please support your Junior Sister more in the future. So far, I am your only Junior Sister!"

"no……"

"Dead, 88!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Dingxi felt like he was in a dream.

Instead of rushing to open the WeChat group, I directly logged into the official website of the March Foundation with the device at hand. Sure enough, in the list of March Computer Award winners released today, he is the only one with his name.

Almost subconsciously, he clicked on the award details button next to his name, and then saw many comments about him from big names in the computer industry.

The original versions of these comments are in Chinese, English, and even some niche texts, but it doesn't matter. The website thoughtfully provides a one-click translation function, which can translate these comments in different languages ​​into the language you are most familiar with.

Regarding his comments, the first one is the rating and reasons given by the instructor Ning Wei.

Nine points!

How affirmative is this? After all, the March award points are quite strict. Of course, these are not the focus. The point is that in the past, my director Ning had never served as a judge in the selection process of the March Awards, and the award details did not include the name of Director Ning at all.

What the hell...

No wonder Junior Sister didn’t believe him when he said he didn’t know anything about it, and he wouldn’t believe it either. After all, the foundation always notifies the winner of the award the day before the official announcement. This time Director Ning participated in the award evaluation, and according to ordinary people’s understanding, he must have been angry with him in advance. But Zhang Dingxi knew very well that Director Ning really never called him or even sent a WeChat message.

Zhang Dingxi was stunned for a long time. After coming to his senses, he immediately called Ning Wei.

The phone rang twice before it was connected, and Director Ning's lazy voice came from the receiver: "Hello?"

"Director Ning, it's me... Zhang Dingxi."

"I know it's you. I've memorized your number. What's the matter? I finally slept in and you called me so early in the morning. You students, can't you make me worry-free every day?"

"Ah?" Zhang Dingxi was a little stunned. He looked at the clock hanging on the wall of the laboratory. It was already half past nine...

At this time in the past, Director Ning should have been up for two hours, but he soon thought that his mentor had just finished the CPU design, and both Meng Runze and Zhou Zhenghao had two days of rest, and he suddenly felt a little unreasonable.

"Um, Director Ning, I'm sorry, did you just see that I won the March Award?"

"Yes! Didn't the foundation inform you? Oh, I remembered it. Yesterday they called you twice but couldn't get through. You were not in the hospital, so they asked me to inform you. I forgot when I was busy. What’s wrong? Isn’t it good to win the award?”

"No... Director Ning, I saw the score you gave..."

"Nine points, you deserve it. I have seen your hard work over the years, and last year happened to be a year of harvest, so when I took a look at the results of the awards in March this year, you were already ranked No. Three, according to the rules of the March Award, scientists with the same final algorithm scoring standard to one decimal point will share the March Award bonus for that year. You are just 0.02 points behind. Then I will combine the results of other candidates. After learning about it, to be very objective, I feel that these results are not as good as yours."

"After the judges scored, the subsequent calculation ratio in March was very complicated. Although my weight was relatively high, who knows whether that guy can help you get enough 0.02 points after the final conversion? So to be on the safe side, I simply gave Got a score of 9.5, guess what, you alone won the award! This score of 9.5 is a little higher. If you are not my student, from the bottom of my heart, I will probably only give a score of 8.5. So you Don’t be too excited. The extra 1 point is given to me. After all, you have chosen a good tutor, which is also a bonus. In other words, it just gives you some small advantages, don’t take it too seriously.”

Ning Wei said it in an understatement, but Zhang Dingxi could only describe his mood as complicated at this time.

Small advantage?

This small advantage directly allowed him to move from the third row to the first place. Originally, the other two people jointly won the award, but now he alone won the grand prize...

This small advantage is a bit exaggerated.

More importantly, Zhang Dingxi knows very well how much his mentor values ​​the March Award.

Ning Wei has instilled in them more than once the concept that China has a long way to go to become a world science and technology center, and a world-wide award can be said to be the top priority. Through a fair award system, it is not only to attract the attention of the academic and technological circles, but also to attract the attention of capital.

After all, modern scientific research is no longer the era where problems can be solved with a piece of paper and a pen. Most results come from money. Take the three-dimensional display he made as an example. A set of simple optical equipment costs millions of dollars. An experimental light source costs millions of dollars.

Ning Wei personally gave him such a high score, which is undoubtedly to give ammunition to those who debate whether the March Award is fair and whether it can become a world-class award...

"Director Ning, wouldn't this be good? What if others question it?"

"What's wrong? I tell you Zhang Dingxi, be confident! When others question you, the key is to show results to shut them up! There are exactly three months left before the March Award Ceremony. I watched your The test report is already very good. If you really want to respond to other people’s doubts, just come up with something on the day of the award ceremony to shut up those who are accustomed to BB. Are you confident?"

Speaking to this extent, what else does Zhang Dingxi have to say? He immediately replied loudly: "Yes! Director Ning!"

"As long as you have it. Zhang Dingxi, you know what I like most about you? It's that attitude that you won't face difficulties just to save trouble. There are two things I always remember. The first one is that not long after this project started, When you need to solve the problem of three-dimensional mesh denoising, you can choose someone else’s ready-made algorithm, but because the other party is unwilling to permanently authorize it, you do not choose to compromise, but study new algorithms on your own to solve this problem.”

"The second thing is when choosing a light source. If you choose some light sources provided by foreign countries, you can greatly shorten the development time. But in order to not have to comply with other people's usage standards, you finally choose to develop new light sources yourself. This kind of repetitive work may be meaningless in the eyes of others, but I know what you are thinking. Because these two technologies are currently lacking in the country, if you do not have your own technology, they will be easily suppressed. "

"Compared with other domestic technologies that have mature supply chains, you don't have to worry about the technical details. This is actually similar to what I think. There are some things that we may not necessarily use in large quantities, but we must have them. In the future, 3D displays will really It's about to be mass-produced. If the domestic light source factory can't keep up, of course we can use foreign ones, but it's important whether we have any influence on their sales strategy. So you deserve this award."

"It's not your performance last year that made you win this award, but all your accumulation from the beginning of this project to now, so that you can win this year's award with a clear conscience. As for your other brothers and sisters, their Although the results are very impressive, the independence is not very strong at the moment. There will be opportunities in the future. Remember what I said, it is more fair if you can win the award. When faced with doubts, just show your results confidently! Any question?"

"No more!" Zhang Dingxi said quickly.

"Well, I'll be dead without you. Remember, bring me something in March!"

"Don't worry, Director Ning, even though I'm exhausted in the lab, I still want to show you something on the day of the award ceremony!"

"Stop making trouble... What are you saying about being immortal? Rest when you should rest. You think you are March! You're so angry! I'm dead!"

"Dududu..."

Listening to the busy signal from the phone, Zhang Dingxi was stunned for a moment, then took out his phone, opened WeChat, looked at the lively content of the group chat, thought for a while, and quickly typed a few lines: "Just finished talking to Ning. On the phone, Director Ning asked me to produce some results in March to prove myself. Brothers and sisters, whoever has been free recently can help me? Not to mention a month’s meal, I’ll cover a year’s meal!”

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Compared with various internal discussions, the Computer Award in March this year did create a storm on the Internet.

For ordinary people, the name Zhang Dingxi is still very unfamiliar. After all, his research is still in the laboratory and has not yet had time to be released to the public. Although many research results have been published in conference papers, accepted by conferences, and included in journals, who would pay attention to those things? I can’t understand what I’m saying...

However, it is easy to see Ning Wei's name by clicking on the award details column.

This is already news.

After all, the March Award has been held for four times, and its influence is no longer comparable to that of the first time.

Big names show up every year. This method of public scoring even causes many people to compare it with the Nobel Prize’s behind-the-scenes awarding operation every year. But as the initiator of the award, Ning Wei never appeared on the list of judges. But even if you look at people who are unhappy with Ning Wei, you have to admit that Ning Wei has the absolute say in the two awards of mathematics and computer science.

This time Ning Wei finally couldn't help but show up, and he made a big move and directly gave a high score of 9.5 points.

You must know that the March Award judges are extremely cautious in their scoring, and 9.5 points is a high score that has never appeared before. Prior to this, only one judge for the Mathematics Award had given a high score of 8.8. Generally speaking, the reference scores given by the judges of previous March Award winners were mostly concentrated in the range of 7.5 to 8.5.

Show, so showy!

Although Ning Wei also scored other candidates, everyone did not pay much attention to these. After all, although Ning Wei's comments did not use any uncommon words, they often used various academic terms and paper topics, which were difficult for ordinary people to read. Understand. What everyone is more concerned about is who is this Zhang Dingxi who can actually let Ning Wei come forward to score such a high score, and this is actually not a secret.

Anyone who cares can get the answer just by searching on the Internet...