Hammer of Technology

"About 10 minutes ago, Feng Shaojie just called me and said that Professor Shen would come to see us at 05:30, so I got up first. Seeing that you are sleeping soundly, I plan to call you in another 10 minutes."

"Oh!" Ning Wei nodded. He could probably imagine how busy Professor Shen would be as one of the conveners of this meeting the day before the official opening of the meeting, so he rushed into the bathroom and began to wash.

"what time is it?"

"It's still five minutes away."

"Oh!" Ning Wei glanced out the window, the sky was still bright.

I am a little hungry, but fortunately the hunger is not strong.

So he sat on the sofa and watched TV with Yu Xingwei.

The TV was playing the station's show, The Tonight Show with Piers Morgan.

This probably belongs to an unserious news interpretation column. When Ning Wei sat down, the man on the TV was complaining crazily because of a recent speech by a senior American official, saying that this senior American official would not go to Hollywood to compete for the best actor It's a pity to stay in the White House with the air conditioner on. The dog's acting skills are not as good as his, and the whole world owes him a statuette...

The exaggerated tone, serious expression and waving gestures seem to have a sense of substitution.

Of course, what is even more exaggerated is that this is broadcast by a TV station that broadcasts so-called serious news almost [-]/[-].

Ning Wei and Yu Xingwei looked at each other silently, sure enough, this is very old and beautiful.

Time passed amidst the talk show tycoon's complaints, and the doorbell rang from outside the door.

"Here we come." Ning Wei stood up, walked to the door and opened the door.

Opening the door, Ning Wei met Professor Shen whom Lu Changbin had heard many times for the first time.

He looks younger than Director Lu. He wears a pair of black-framed glasses, his eyebrows are slightly raised, and when his thin lips are pursed, he looks very serious. The decent black-striped formal suit embodies this sense of seriousness. Multiplied.

Feng Shaojie, who was standing behind him, also changed into a gray suit, without the flying and jumping he had when he was alone with them, looking focused and calm.

However, when the door was opened, the calm look lasted for less than a second, and the guy blinked at Ning Wei behind Professor Shen, revealing his true temperament.

"Professor Shen, hello, please come in."

Ning Wei said hello honestly.

"Professor Shen, hello!" In the room, Yu Xingwei had already stood up and greeted.

He subconsciously wanted to make tea, but suddenly remembered that there was no such thing as tea in the room, so he simply went to get two bottles of water.

"You're Ningwei, it's almost the same as in the video, you are Xiaoyu, Lao He often praises you on the phone, saying that you are the student he has recruited for so many years, and you are the one who best embodies the word great wisdom and foolishness." Yu Xingwei, Professor Shen showed a smile on his face and commented.

Seeing what he said, Yu Xingwei didn't know whether he was praising him or hurting him, so he could only stand there and smile innocently.

Well, it's more like a wise man.

"Everyone sit down, we are all on our own, don't be restrained. Speaking of which, I have been friends with you, Professor Lu, for nearly 20 years. We were both studying abroad at UC Berkeley, but our research directions were different. I still remember you at that time. After returning to China, Professor Lu's research topic is the surface reconstruction algorithm of massive scattered points."

"Don't underestimate this research direction. You must know that it was only 2000 at that time, and computer technology was not as mature as it is now, especially the domestic Internet industry is still in its infancy, so this research direction was already very important at that time. A cutting-edge subject."

"Including the measurement modeling used by many domestic high-precision enterprises, as well as the application in the field of computer vision, etc., the basis is the theory that your Professor Lu studied at that time."

With Shen Zheqing's words, the relationship between the few people was drawn into a lot, and Ning Wei was deeply touched.

Sure enough, those who can be selected as academicians of the National Academy of Sciences are all talented people.

It’s just that times have changed too fast, especially in the past 20 years in the computer field. From hardware to software, not to mention 20 years ago, even two years ago, many things have a tendency to be eliminated now.

This also makes Ning Wei yearn for, maybe one day in the future, his scientific research results can also lay the foundation for the future.

"Okay, let's not talk about Lao Lu, Ning Wei, are you ready for tomorrow's report meeting?" Professor Shen changed the subject and brought the question to the serious business.

Ning Wei nodded quickly, and replied: "Ready, Professor Lu attaches great importance to this meeting, and urges me to sort out the paper every day in China."

Professor Shen nodded slightly, and said: "Well, I know this. I have read your speech, and there is nothing wrong with it. But the focus of the report meeting is not on your report time, but on the questioning session. Your report meeting is over. The audience includes editors of top journals such as jacm, acm-tows, ieee tkde, technical executives of high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell, AT&T, Cisco, etc., as well as many professors from the Ivy League and industry experts. Celebrities."

"When the time comes, don't show your timidity, just deal with it with a normal mind. When you encounter difficult questions, you don't have to answer them, just tell them that due to time constraints, you can discuss them in private. But with the level you have shown in the paper, I believe you Can complete the 60-minute report meeting very well."

"60 minutes?" Hearing Professor Shen's words, Yu Xingwei next to him couldn't help sighing in surprise.

You must know that in such a top-level academic conference, it is already a great honor for an undergraduate student to be able to speak on stage. The conference attaches great importance to being able to have 45 minutes of performance time. The treatment that can only be enjoyed by the bigwigs in the industry.

"Yes, 60 minutes. But this has nothing to do with me. There are indeed many people interested in Ningwei's turbulence algorithm. As shown in the data report of your laboratory, this algorithm is for repairing the existing problems in the network communication protocol. Some exploitable loopholes provide another simpler solution, which is very valuable." Professor Shen commented very pertinently.

As soon as the voice fell, the professor's cell phone rang.

After answering the phone twice, Professor Shen stood up: "Okay, I'm busy today. An old friend just arrived. We made an appointment to have dinner together today, so I won't accompany you."

"It's okay, don't worry about us, just go and get busy."

"Okay, Shaojie, Ning Wei and Xiao Yu will leave it to you. You can take them to communicate with those young people in the hotel, but there is one thing, you can't leave the hotel." Professor Shen turned to Feng Shaojie and explained One sentence.

"Don't worry, Professor Shen, I know."

……

As soon as Shen Zheqing left, Feng Shaojie breathed a sigh of relief: "Phew, do you want to go directly to the buffet? Or should I take you to experience the happy paty exclusively for young people?"

After Yu Xingwei and Ning Wei looked at each other, Ning Wei said decisively: "Let's go to the buffet, let's just eat something and go back to the room."

"This choice... There is never a shortage of exotic beauties on the foreigners' patty."

Ning Wei shook his head resolutely, and said: "To tell you the truth, my Brother Yu has never been interested in beautiful women, how about this, Brother Feng just take us to the restaurant, and then you go play with yours, and we will go back directly after eating." The room is fine."

Hearing this, Yu Xingwei rolled his eyes, and what was even more annoying was that Feng Shaojie looked at him with obvious ambiguity.

"I'm even less interested in men!" Finally, he couldn't help but argue.

"Oh, I understand! Well, two ascetic monks, come with me. To say something without exaggeration, you are missing the best things at your best age." Feng Shaojie spread his hands and commented.

……

Following Feng Shaojie to the cafeteria prepared by the organizer of the meeting, Ning Wei probably understood why the buffet was called a buffet here.

Looking around, the desserts that look quite delicate are the most. Fortunately, there are self-service sandwiches, soups in small bowls, and various wines.

"The meeting hasn't started yet, so the dishes are not very complete. You can just eat as you go. I won't accompany you."

Bringing the two to the restaurant, Feng Shaojie left without saying this, obviously yearning for the so-called young paty.

It was meal time, and there were a lot of people in the restaurant. Ning Wei and Yu Xingwei lined up in front of the long table full of all kinds of dim sum, choosing various foods. Of course, this did not prevent Yu Xingwei from complaining: "Xiao Ning Anyway, I’m actually very interested in beauties, especially exotic beauties.”

Anyway, they speak Chinese, and both of them are blond and blue-eyed Westerners, so there is a high probability that they cannot understand.

"Do you want to go to the party Feng Ge mentioned?" Ning Wei asked casually.

"That's not even..."

"That's it, anyway, you don't want to go anyway. I actually wanted to see it, mainly to take care of Brother Yu's thoughts, so I refused."

Such a meticulous logic, Yu Xingwei was speechless, the reservedness unique to Chinese people hurt him.

"What do you want to see?"

"Corrupt capitalist life!"

The two of them chatted like this while stuffing things into their mouths.

Anyway, the people in the restaurant are all strangers to them, so naturally they don't care too much about image issues. Ning Wei didn't socialize with wine glasses like other people in the restaurant, but chose to use the most efficient way Stuff yourself.

Just like this, he walked around the dining table and solved his stomach problem, so Ning Wei planned to greet Yu Xingwei and go back to the room directly.

Just at this time, accompanied by the footsteps of "da da da", a gust of fragrant wind hits, a blond lady from the Western Regions in a black evening dress passed by Ning Wei, at that moment, a coincidence happened, the lady's The high-heeled shoes broke suddenly, and he let out an exclamation of "oh...", the whole person lost his balance and fell towards Ning Wei's side.

It was so sudden, Ning Wei stretched out his hand subconsciously, and supported the foreign lady's back, everything was completed in an instant, when Ning Wei realized it, what he saw when he looked down was a rather delicate and fair face , those moist eyes, trembling eyelashes, and curly golden hair.

Wait, the hand on the young lady's back feels a bit wrong, slippery, cool, and elastic, a bit like... leather?

Ning Wei was startled...

At this moment, his hand made a decision faster than his brain, and before he could fully support the young lady to stand up, he quickly withdrew the right hand that was supporting her back.

"my god..."

After losing her support, the young lady who was already unsteady due to the broken high heels fell to the ground in a shapeless buttocks with a second cry of surprise.

There is a high probability of screaming because of an accident. I was in a half-squat position, so the fall was not heavy. The loss of points is mainly due to the image...

Everyone around was stunned, and the hasty exclamation attracted all eyes to this area.

It was time to test the reaction speed. Yu Xingwei took a step forward with lightning speed, and helped the young lady up before almost everyone had reacted.

And asked intimately: "Miss, are you okay?"

"Thank you, I'm fine." The young lady thanked Ningwei perfunctorily, then looked at Ningwei angrily, and asked, "But why?"

Many people looked at Ning Wei, after all, what he did just now was indeed very ungentlemanly.

"No, why do you seem to have no clothes on your back?" Ning Wei spread his hands and asked innocently.

"Ha..." As soon as Ning Wei finished speaking, the sound of good-natured laughter made the embarrassing atmosphere of the scene disappear, and there were even a few pairs of slightly approving eyes cast on Ning Wei...

As Feng Shaojie said, this is a country full of contradictions.Maybe many people are open-minded, but the mainstream social class will definitely not be less people who advocate the Puritan lifestyle. For them, the conservative life of keeping chastity before marriage is a very normal thing.

"So you've never seen a girl in a backless evening dress before?" the young lady asked in an incredulous tone.

Ning Wei shook his head honestly. The laughter around him became smaller, but more joyful. This oriental boy is very interesting...

But Ning Wei is really wronged, he is just an ordinary senior student, he has not had time to set foot in society, and all he sees around him every day are ordinary school girls, who on campus will Is it okay to wear this attire?

Blame him?

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112 report meeting

"Tell me, it was rumored last night that there was an oriental boy who didn't understand the style. Could it be you?"

The next morning, when Feng Shaojie saw Ning Wei, he had a smile on his face.

"That must be him!" Yu Xingwei answered next to him.

He made fun of Ning Wei a lot about it yesterday.

"Haha, Ning Wei, you're done. Lucy is the bright spot in the eyes of many young people attending the meeting. You can let her fall. Believe me, you will become a thorn in the eyes of countless people."

"Is she famous?" Ning Wei asked with a frown.

Inexplicably, Ning Wei thought of what the girl said in the restaurant yesterday before turning around and leaving: "My name is Lucy Ron, and I will definitely let you remember this name."

"No, haven't you ever heard of Lucy Rowan, who is doing algorithm research? Harvard genius girl, how many 23-year-old Harvard female doctors have you met? Mention her improved quantum genetic algorithm and neural network integration technology directly. Adopted by Google, it is said that it can improve the generalization ability of neural network integration. Of course, I do not do this research, and the specific situation is not clear. But she is Harvard's darling, understand?" Feng Shaojie introduced.

"This... In fact, my main job is not to do algorithm research. I am currently studying mathematics, more specifically Jiangda Mathematics and Applied Mathematics." Ning Wei said annoyed.

"Eh..." Feng Shaojie, who was waiting for the elevator with the two of them, was stunned, subconsciously looking at Yu Xingwei to the side.

"Didn't Professor Shen tell you about our Xiaoning's major?"

Feng Shaojie was stunned for a moment, then looked at Ning Wei again: "Okay... I really didn't say that, sure enough, mathematics determines the upper limit of algorithm engineers!"

……

Feng Shaojie brought the three of them to the exhibition hall of the conference first, and Ning Wei finally saw the poster exchange mentioned in the conference manual.

It's not as formal as he imagined, a small table, a notebook, plus a few drawing boards used to separate a space and academic posters posted on it complete a simple communication place.

If the conditions are good, a small projector and screen will be set up. More people will display the monitor directly to the outside. When someone stops to watch the poster, they will start to explain their thoughts and ideas simultaneously.

"I still have some things to do, so I won't accompany you. If you are interested, you can visit here first. The first report will start at nine o'clock on time, in the No. [-] conference hall."

"Okay, go get busy, Brother Feng."

……

"The first report will be about the quantum particle swarm algorithm. It has nothing to do with our research. Why don't we go to the poster booth in the lobby first?" Ning Wei suggested.

"I really think we should go to the report meeting first. After all, this is the first time you have spoken at this kind of report meeting. It is better to learn the experience first, and then experience the questioning style of the bosses in the audience." Yu Xingwei Shaking his head, to him, Ning Wei's performance in the afternoon is the most important thing.

"Just go to the second session at ten o'clock. Look, there are a lot of novel things in the poster area. Look, there is also a set algorithm display that can efficiently solve the three-dimensional box packing problem." Ning Wei pointed to the distance across A booth about three meters away from the two said.

"This... alright!" Yu Xingwei finally nodded.

In fact, compared with the serious report meeting, the atmosphere in the poster hall is much more relaxed and lively, and arguments can be heard from time to time.

However, when the two walked over and took a look, they were both stunned... they were still acquaintances.

"It's you?"

"Is it you?"

In fact, I'm not too familiar with them, I just met once when I was applying for a visa.

"Well, didn't you pass the review of your thesis, and the conference invited you to give a report? Why did you put up a poster?"