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Chapter 120 The Turing Award is only for the second author?
In the editorial department of "ACM Computing Surveys", the editor is conducting a preliminary review of the manuscript.

The United States is the most developed country in computer science. Not only scholars and researchers, but also the world's top programmers are gathered in the United States. A large base produces more papers, so "ACM Computing Survey" receives a large number of submissions every day.

Most submissions are filtered out during the editor's initial review stage.

A letter from the University of California, Berkeley, caught the eye of the editor. He looked at the address and his expression became serious.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, is the most powerful computer department in the United States. Manuscripts sent from there must be treated specially.

Opening the manuscript, the first thing turned out to be a letter of recommendation, signed by Leonard Adelman!
"It's the Turing Award winner, Professor Aardman from the Department of Computer Science at Berkeley!" The editor was shocked. With this letter of recommendation alone, he could not pass this paper. He had to report it to the editor-in-chief.

However, the editor is still very curious as to what the content of the paper is that deserves Professor Aardman to write a letter of recommendation himself.

He opened it to read the text of the paper and started reading.

"Zero-knowledge concise non-interactive knowledge argument, is it related to zero-knowledge proof? This thing does make some contributions to cryptography, but the contribution is not big, mainly because it is difficult to apply. I don’t know what else was studied in this paper New thing."

After a while, the editor finished reading the entire paper, and the concept of "hypothetical knowledge" rolled over in his mind involuntarily.

"Awesome! This author is really amazing! He can actually come up with the concept of hypothetical knowledge! This directly fills the security loophole of zero-knowledge proof! Who is this author?"

The editor immediately looked at the author column.

"The first author, Zhang Wei? This is how the name should be spelled! He is of Chinese descent."

Let’s look at the later second authors, Leonard Adelman and Sophie Goldwasser.

"Professor Aardman is the second author! How is this possible! The Turing Award winner is signed as the second author? Did he fill in the wrong place?"

The editor blinked and confirmed that Aardman was indeed only the second author, not the corresponding author.

"And that Sophie Goldwasser? That cryptography authority! Remember he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States! She also signed her name as the second author?"

Under normal circumstances, the names of these two people must appear in the corresponding author column.

Especially Professor Adelman, the winner of the Turing Award and the founder of the secret key system. His status in the computer field, even if it is not Einstein-level, must be Yang Zhenning-level.

Now that they are only the second authors, the editor was immediately surprised.

“What is the origin of the author of this paper that allows a Turing Award winner to be the second author!”

……

The paper soon appeared in front of the editor.

"Professor Adelman signed as the second author?" The editor-in-chief was also surprised.

"The name of the author of this paper is Zhang Wei. I looked it up and found that he was of Chinese descent. Although I found dozens of the same names, none of them matched his age. According to the author information attached to the paper, this Zhang Wei Only nineteen years old!" the subordinate said.

"Nineteen years old? So young? He must have just been admitted to college, right? How can he be able to get into Professor Adelman's eyes?" the editor-in-chief said in confusion.

"It is not possible to get Professor Aardman to sign as the second author. This is not an ordinary relationship. Maybe he is Professor Aardman's illegitimate son!"

The editor-in-chief shook his head: "You are still too young to understand these top scholars. Top scholars cherish their own feathers. Even if it is their biological son, they will not recommend it if the paper is not up to standard. I'd better read it first. Read the content of this paper!”

After a while, the editor-in-chief had read the "hypothetical knowledge" part of the paper, and his face was full of shock!

"Once this paper is published, the entire cryptography will change! No wonder Professor Adelman is willing to be named the second author. If it were me, maybe I would be willing to be named the second author."

As the editor-in-chief of "ACM Computing Survey", he must also be a top expert in the computer field, and his theoretical level is not inferior to Professor Aardman.

The editor then continued to read the end of the paper. When he saw the blockchain technology mentioned in the paper that day, his expression was no longer shocked, but shocked!

"Blockchain! And blockchain! Why didn't I think of that!"

Before seeing the last part of the paper, the editor-in-chief could only think that the hypothetical knowledge theory can bring zero-knowledge proof to the stage of large-scale application, which means that a new encryption method will be born.

And compared with previous encryption methods, this new encryption method can better protect privacy and is more difficult to crack.

Encryption methods have been innovating for decades. New encryption methods are always born every few years, which is nothing new.

What's more, there is an old saying that goes as high as the devil. Encryption methods are being updated, and cracking methods are also being updated. At least at that time, there was no encryption method that could not be cracked.

Therefore, a new encryption method is nothing more than an upgrade in cryptography. It is like discovering a new species or making a practical invention, which can only "shock" the industry.

However, after being reminded in the last part of the paper, the editor finally realized the real value of this paper, which is that blockchain technology can enter the practical application stage.

For the entire digital field, blockchain technology is not as simple as an upgrade. It will bring an earth-shaking breakthrough to the entire digital field.

If the upgrade of cryptography is equivalent to the discovery of a new species or the creation of a practical invention, then the application of blockchain is equivalent to proposing a new theory of evolution or realizing an industrial revolution!
The next second, the editor suddenly thought of the author's age.

"Is this thing really created by a nineteen-year-old kid?" Then I thought again, wasn't Bill Gates the one who founded Microsoft when he was nineteen?

Thinking of Bill Gates, the editor felt much relieved.

In the computer field, there is no shortage of geniuses!

……

As soon as the new issue of "ACM Computing Survey" was published, Zhang Wei's "Concise Non-Interactive Knowledge Argument for Zero Knowledge" immediately became the focus of the industry's attention.

Not to mention anything else, just proposing hypothetical knowledge and allowing zero-knowledge proofs to be applied on a large scale is already a very impressive achievement.

When this thing is applied to cryptography, it can immediately bring substantial economic benefits.

Not to mention the addition of blockchain technology.

Scholars with a long-term perspective can see that this is the real value of this paper.

As the author of the paper, Zhang Wei was naturally noticed by the academic community. A casual search revealed that there are dozens of Zhang Wei in the computer field, all of whom have published papers with a certain gold content.

There are so many duplicate names that there is no way to confirm the identity of the author!
Fortunately, the author's signature on the paper is Tsinghua University and University of California, Berkeley. You can also call the school to verify the author's identity.

……

"Zhang, do you have time now? Regardless of whether you have time or not, come to my place immediately. I will introduce you to an important guest."

Professor Adelman's sudden call left Zhang Wei confused. But he immediately went to Berkeley's computer science department.

At the entrance of the School of Engineering, three cars were particularly conspicuous. Two of them were black Cadillac Escalades, which are the full-size SUVs used by Secret Service agents in the movie when the President of the United States travels. The Range Rover is just a little brother in front of it.

There is also a Cadillac, the famous President No. 1, which is the extended version of the Cadillac used by the President of the United States.

"What kind of big shot is coming! This scene is big enough." Zhang Wei thought to himself, and then walked into the School of Engineering.

Standing at the entrance of the stairs was a strong white man nearly two meters tall, with a walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder. He was constantly scanning the surroundings, not letting go of everyone who came in.

When he saw Zhang Wei looked like a student and was Chinese, he ignored him and looked elsewhere.

Zhang Wei went upstairs to Professor Adelman's floor, and sure enough he saw another man who looked like a bodyguard. When we arrived at the reception room, there were still two bodyguards standing at the door.

The older bodyguard among them was probably the leader. He asked directly, "Is this Mr. Zhang Wei?"

"Yes, it's me." Zhang Wei nodded.

"Please come in!" The bodyguard leader immediately moved out of the way.

In the reception room, besides Aardman and Goldwasser, there were three strangers. The first person looked familiar, but Zhang Wei couldn't remember which celebrity he was.

Professor Adelman introduced: "Zhang, you are not an American, so you may not know this gentleman, but in the United States, everyone knows about this gentleman! He is Jeff Bayer, the founder of Amazon. Soth!”

After Adelman reminded him, Zhang Wei instantly recognized this big shot.

“Jeff Bezos actually has hair! No wonder I didn’t recognize it!”

In Zhang Wei's impression, Bezos is a bald and spiritual old man who is always surrounded by beautiful girlfriends.

The Bezos in front of him still had a few sparse strands of hair on the top of his head, and the sides of his head were fairly thick. It was precisely because he still had hair that Zhang Wei didn't recognize him for the first time.

In terms of clothing, Bezos is not as stylish as he will be in the future. He is wearing a shirt and jeans, a typical American programmer, and he does not look like a top rich man at all.

Rich Americans who are programmers probably like this kind of simple clothing.

After greeting each other, Professor Adelman continued to introduce; "Mr. Bezos is very interested in the paper you just published.

This paper paves the way for zero-knowledge proofs. Mr. Bezos believes that encryption technology based on zero-knowledge proofs will be of great help to e-commerce. "

Bezos nodded: “Since the birth of e-commerce, security issues have been criticized by people, and a large part of those who are unwilling to use Amazon to shop are worried that online shopping is not safe.

Therefore, Amazon needs a new encryption technology that can not only improve security, but also alleviate people's concerns about online shopping. I think encryption technology based on zero-knowledge proofs is exactly what we need.

This technology allows users to directly connect with banks to complete transactions when making payments. We at Amazon are only responsible for verifying transaction information and will not come into contact with users' bank information. Transaction security will be greatly improved! "

"That's it!" Zhang Wei smiled and nodded, but felt something was wrong in his heart.

"Bezos, this old boy, didn't tell the truth! Fortunately, I am a reborn person, otherwise I would have been fooled by you!"

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