When will I have a long tassel?

"Teacher Song, do you want to fight for this professional title?"

On the campus of Beijing University of Technology, Liu Yong, a teacher in the computer department, caught up with his colleague Song Delu and asked him in a low voice.

Song Delu looked helpless: "Teacher Liu, don't laugh at me. I have been saving papers for several years, and I am still two short of them. How can I be qualified to apply? Alas, now that I am in our line of work, I want to publish Core journals are too difficult. The typical wolf has more meat than meat, and there are a lot of related manuscripts. I asked a friend to ask, and found that two core journals have a clear price for publishing papers, 10,000 yuan per article, and they won’t open it. Here’s the invoice.”

"Hey, I'm telling you an inside message, but don't reveal it to anyone." Liu Yong said mysteriously.

"What internal information is it related to me?" Song Delu asked. He didn't seem too eager. Who knows if this Liu Yong was trying to be mysterious.

"Let me ask you, have you helped develop some software for the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the past?" Liu Yong asked.

Song Delu nodded: "Yes, it's the algorithm they proposed, and the program I made for them, they used it to assist in CAD design."

"The CAD in the Mechanical Department is our domestically produced Huaxia CAD, right?"

"Yes, they don't have enough funds to buy genuine Tuao CAD, so they have been using Huaxia CAD. In fact, I think Huaxia CAD is quite good. The main functions are similar to Tuao, but the interface is a little ugly. It doesn’t hinder use either.”

"Don't talk about the interface problem first, let me ask you, can your software be directly linked to Huaxia CAD?"

"If you know the interface of Huaxia CAD, you can hook it in. The Mechanical Department asked me to design those softwares just to be used in conjunction with Huaxia CAD."

"Look, this is your chance!" Liu Yong said excitedly.

Some monks in Song Delu were confused: "Teacher Liu, what do you mean? How can this be an opportunity?"

Liu Yong said: "You must not know yet, right? Huaxia CAD will soon announce its conversion to open source software. All source codes will be disclosed to the public. People from all walks of life are welcome to carry out secondary development based on their source codes."

"Really?" Song Delu also became happy, "If so, that would be great. The Mechanical Department has been asking me to help them improve Huaxia CAD and add several special modules to it. I have been exploring Huaxia these days. CAD interface, but I didn’t expect that they actually changed it to open source, which is so convenient.”

"I haven't finished speaking yet." Liu Yong said, "Don't you want to know what happens next?"

"What else happens next?" Song Delu asked.

Liu Yong lowered his voice again, so low that Song Delu almost had to put his ear to his mouth to hear it.

"Let me tell you, Lao Song, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Information Industry, and the Science and Technology Commission will soon jointly require all units to count the application modules written for Huaxia CAD's open source software as scientific research achievements. If you The application written can be accepted by New Jingwei Company and promoted as an official application, which can be equivalent to a Category B article." Liu Yong said.

"Category B!" Song Delu's eyes widened. He worked hard to submit articles everywhere, and in the past year he only published two articles in Category C. He never dared to hope for Category B journals. The number of Category B journals is small, and they cannot publish many papers in a year. Moreover, most of the pages have been reserved by industry leaders. The competition for the remaining pages is fierce.

It is said that these journals receive hundreds of submissions every day, and the editors cannot see them at all, so they directly screen the submissions based on their professional titles. Manuscripts submitted by professors will basically have a chance to be reviewed, while those of associate professors will largely depend on luck. As for a small lecturer like Song Delu, the editor would take a look at the title of the manuscript and regard it as particularly valuable.

But now, Liu Yong told him that as long as he wrote a few applications for Huaxia CAD, and if these applications could be recognized by New Jingwei Company and used as official applications, they would be equivalent to papers in Class B journals. This would Isn't it a window God opened for him?

Song Delu thought that he still had some programming talent. He had previously participated in projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and helped them compile several programs, which were also well received. He has been thinking about how to connect those programs to Huaxia CAD for use, but he has not figured out the software interface for a while.

Now that Huaxia CAD has opened its source code, he no longer needs to use decompilation to find software interfaces. He can simply write interface programs according to the requirements of the source code, and he can easily submit several high-quality applications.

It is of course difficult for these applications to be recognized by New Jingwei Company, but it is still an opportunity, right? Even if you don't get recognition, Liu Yong said, as long as you submit the application, it will be considered an achievement, but the level will be slightly lower. He already has some papers, and with these results, he is qualified to apply for promotion to associate professor.

"Where did you hear this news? How come I haven't heard of it at all?" Song Delu asked Liu Yong excitedly.

Liu Yong said: "This news was told to me by a relative of mine who is the director of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He said that several of their ministries and commissions are countersigning this document, and it will be distributed to various schools and research institutes in a few days.

"I'm worried that when the document is officially released, we don't know how many people from across the country are going to get involved. If we don't get it right then, we won't have a chance. Let's take the lead and cover a few pitfalls first. As long as our procedures are perfect, , are you still worried about not getting certification?”

"You mean... us?" Song Delu heard some clues.

Liu Yong said with a smile: "Yes, Lao Song, you also know that I don't have the talent for programming, so I can't come up with any good programs. Otherwise, I will do odd jobs for you, and the modules you upload then will be mine." I am the second author. I have some connections with the Ministry of Science and Technology. Maybe I can help persuade New Jingwei Company to accept the module you wrote.

"Also, as for the professional title, I won't apply for it this year. I will apply for it again when you get promoted. It will definitely not affect you. What do you think?"

"No problem, I'll go back to the computer room now and adjust those programs. If we can get approval from New Jingwei Company in the future, half of the military medal will be mine and half of it will be yours." Song Delu said enthusiastically explain.

The four ministries and commissions jointly promoted university researchers to write applications for Huaxia CAD, which was the result of the appeals of senior leaders such as Xu Zhaojian. After Tang Zifeng and Li Kejia discussed the matter of open source software, they wrote an application report and handed it to Xu Zhaojian.

Xu Zhaojian could not understand the meaning of open source at first. When Tang Zifeng said this to him, Xu Zhaojian was also incited. Regardless of his age, he contacted several industrial seniors like him and began to ask the Ministry of Science and Technology, Science and Industry Lobbying from the committee and other departments.

According to Tang Zifeng, although there is still a certain gap between the hardware manufacturing capabilities of the domestic machinery industry and foreign countries, it is not difficult to catch up with and surpass foreign levels over time. The biggest shortcoming in China currently is industrial software.

The backwardness of domestic industrial software has a lot to do with the Chinese people's indifference to software copyright awareness. Of course, foreign software manufacturers deliberately condone the proliferation of pirated software, which is also an important reason.

Affected by pirated software, the income of domestic software manufacturers is different from that of foreign giants, which in turn affects the investment of these manufacturers in software development. In addition, due to insufficient sales of genuine software, it is difficult for software manufacturers to obtain sufficient user feedback, and user feedback is one of the important foundations of software development.

Today's mechanical design can no longer do without industrial design software. Western countries have now included industrial design software in the scope of technology export review, and the most advanced algorithms are prohibited from being exported to China. All China can buy from abroad are some algorithms that are two to three generations behind, causing Chinese machinery companies to lose directly at the starting line when developing technology.

"Software is also a core technology, and it is a core technology that is more important than hardware."

This is what Tang Zifeng said to Xu Zhaojian, and Xu Zhaojian also told this to officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Science and Technology Commission.

Officials from several ministries and commissions were surprised to learn that New Jingwei Company was going to disclose all the source code of Huaxia CAD. After hearing about New Jingwei Company's vision, they were impressed by New Jingwei Company's boldness on the one hand, and on the other hand they also ignited some hope in their hearts.

Huaxia CAD is not a simple drawing software, but has integrated many design functions. The vision of New Jingwei Company is to mobilize the strength of the whole country and use Huaxia CAD as the basic platform to develop more functional modules to adapt to applications in various professional fields.

For example, to design the gears in a machine tool gearbox, drawing itself is not difficult. What is difficult is the selection of parameters such as gear modules, which involves a series of complex calculations. Even such calculations have no generally accepted method. The standard answer is that many scholars are constantly proposing new algorithms, and the computing model needs to be updated at any time.

Professional software companies cannot keep up with the speed of theoretical innovation, and it is impossible for them to design a set of calculation modules specifically for each emerging theory. But the open source method can solve this problem very well. When scholars propose new algorithms, they write out the calculation programs and put them online for people to download.

If an enterprise wants to accept this new theory, it only needs to hang this program on the CAD interface to easily complete the design.

If the vision of New Jingwei Company can be realized, it means that Huaxia CAD will expand rapidly in a short period of time and grow into a universal industrial design software. Its functions are so powerful that it will even far exceed the expensive ones provided by foreign manufacturers. Similar software.

As for whether these modules provided by amateur developers are reliable, other programmers will naturally verify them. As open source software, all designs are transparent. With so many people reviewing it, the reliability is no less than that of products from major manufacturers.