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Chapter 122 Looking for Professor Zhang Wei Season

"You want me to be a consultant for Amazon?" Zhang Wei looked at Bezos in surprise.

You are Amazon! I'm just a college student. How can He Dehe go to Amazon as a consultant?
Zhang Wei's slightly surprised expression fell into Bezos's eyes, and Bezos immediately felt that there was something going on!
So Bezos continued: "Being a consultant at Amazon is actually very easy. Many times, our consultants don't have to do anything. They only need to check their bank accounts on time to see if the consulting fees have been paid!"

Why don't you get paid for nothing? Zhang Weicai doesn’t believe it! Amazon is not stupid.

So Zhang Wei asked: "Then what do you need me to do?"

"What Amazon needs is that you don't have to do anything." Bezos smiled.

Zhang Wei pondered for a moment, then nodded: "I understand, I don't do anything, including controlling my mouth and not talking nonsense."

After all, he is someone who has been in the system for half his life, so he still has some understanding.

Don't do anything, the subtext is don't mess around and cause trouble. The consulting fee is clearly a hush fee!

Is there anything worth Amazon paying to keep quiet about? Obviously it's what Zhang Wei just talked about, cloud services.

Cloud services are definitely one of Amazon's core projects for future development. In order not to expose strategic intentions, Bezos is happy to pay hush money.

"I am very grateful to Mr. Bezos and Amazon for their love. Being able to become a consultant for Amazon is my dream!" Zhang Wei replied immediately.

In the United States, there is no need to compete with capitalists. Capitalists are willing to pay, so just accept it.

Zhang Wei didn't intend to rip off Amazon. Firstly, he was on a foreign land, and if he was ripped off too hard, he might actually be silenced. Secondly, as a scholar, he still had to have some integrity and not be too snobbish.

Seeing that Zhang Wei agreed without hesitation, Bezos breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on his face.

As a capitalist, I love dealing with scientists like this who are willing to receive money!
……

Zhang Wei did not mention the specific hush fee, nor did Bezos.

For a super rich man like Bezos, who can become the world's richest man, he doesn't need to bargain for a small sum of hundreds of thousands of dollars in person.

And Zhang Wei also knows that there is no need to mention money to Besosti, Amazon should offer a reasonable price.

When large companies like this hire consultants, they do have a pre-set price.

The so-called consulting fees are either public relations fees or hush-hush fees. What level of consultants you will get and what level of consulting fees you will get are all divided in advance.

Low-level consulting fees are about US$70,000 to US$80,000 a year, which is more than the median salary in the United States. High-end consulting fees can cost several million dollars a year.

The price Amazon offered Zhang Wei was US$300,000 a year, and he signed a two-year consulting contract, which means a total of US$600,000.

In two years' time, Amazon's cloud service should be online, and Zhang Wei will no longer need to keep it secret.

Three hundred thousand dollars a year, in 2004, was equivalent to the annual salary of a senior engineer at an Internet giant. Senior Internet engineers were basically a top-notch salary. An annual salary of three hundred thousand dollars was what those who realized the American dream could do. The ultimate paycheck earned.

For Amazon, it is equivalent to hiring one more senior engineer. Anyway, Amazon has many senior engineers who work hard. At this price, it can keep its strategic intentions secret. It cannot be said that it is not a loss, but it can also be said that it is a profit.

For Zhang Wei, he was very satisfied with the fact that he did not have to do anything and picked up 600,000 US dollars for free without risk.

Don't think that the consulting fee of 2.5 US dollars a year is very small. On average, it is equivalent to US dollars a month.

Ten years later, the son of a US president also worked as a consultant for an energy company in Ukraine. At that time, the consulting fee was only US$80,000 a month.

The president's son can only earn 80,000 yuan a month, and Zhang Wei earns 25,000 yuan a month. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?

After Bezos left, Professor Aardman called Zhang Wei into his office again. He did not ask what Bezos had discussed with Zhang Wei alone.

In American workplace culture, it is taboo to pry into other people's privacy.

Adelman opened the drawer, took out a document and handed it to Zhang Wei.

"Zhang, the comparisons of the eleven photos you asked for are all here!"

"Thank you, Professor." Zhang Wei took the file, opened it eagerly, and took a look at the results first.

Sure enough, after computer comparison, the eleven photos were all taken from the same subject.

And there are detailed instructions in it, such as which parts of the photos are completely consistent. This is evidence that Huang Yuxi’s paper was faked.

"Zhang, it seems that this is exactly the result you want! But now I am very curious, how did you guess that these eleven photos may be from the same subject? It should be impossible to distinguish this thing with the naked eye, right? Aardman asked.

"Two reasons. The first reason is that since the publication of that paper, no one has been able to repeat the experiments in it." Zhang Wei said.

"An experiment that cannot be repeated is indeed very questionable. What about the second reason?"

"The second reason is that the author of that paper is a Smecta!"

……

Comrade Zhang Wei, associate professor of computer science and technology at Tsinghua University, just walked into the office and saw all his colleagues standing up and applauding one after another.

"What's going on?" Associate Professor Zhang Wei was stunned. He looked to the left and right and saw no one else coming in. He also stretched out his hands and applauded.

Since everyone is applauding, will I look out of place if I don’t?
"Professor Zhang, congratulations!" A colleague came forward and said with a smile.

"Same joy, same joy!" Associate Professor Zhang Wei said instinctively, but he didn't know where the joy came from.

"Why are they congratulating me? Are they going to promote me to a full professor? I was promoted to associate professor the year before last, but I am not qualified to be promoted to a full professor! And if you are promoted from associate professor to full professor, don't you have to interview!
I haven’t bought any lottery tickets recently! Are you talking about raising wages? Never heard of this! Moreover, if wages are raised, everyone will be raised, and it cannot be just me! No need to congratulate me alone.

My wife is also in good health, with no illnesses or disasters. She can drain my kidneys every day, and she will probably live longer than me. No matter what, I haven't had any happy events recently! "The three major happy events for middle-aged men are promotion, fortune, and the death of his wife. Associate Professor Zhang Wei thought about it and found that he didn't take advantage of any of them.

An older colleague came over with a smile: "Xiao Zhang, it seems I have to call you Professor Zhang from now on!"

"Yes, if you have made such great achievements, it will definitely be no problem to get promoted. Maybe it will be your turn to apply for professional titles next month!" Another person said.

Associate Professor Zhang Wei became more and more confused as he listened, wondering what exactly everyone was talking about.

At this time, the head of the department also came over, and he came to Associate Professor Zhang Wei and said with a serious face: "Xiao Zhang, although you have achieved results this time, I still want to criticize you!
Why don't you report such important scientific research results to the department in advance? Is it possible that you still can’t trust these leading comrades in the department?
Even if you can’t trust other people, can you still trust me and Professor Liu? It must have been more than ten years since you came to Tsinghua University as a graduate student, then stayed at the school to teach after graduating with a Ph.D., and then was promoted to associate professor, right? Professor Liu and I have taken good care of you, right? "

"Director, look at what you said. You are my leader and Professor Liu is my mentor. How can I not trust you two?"

"Can you trust us? Why didn't you reveal even half a word about such an important result?" The director still looked unhappy, and then asked: "Have you climbed onto the high branches of Berkeley and looked down on me and Lao Liu? "

"Climbing high branches? Where is this going?" Associate Professor Zhang Wei became increasingly confused.

"Which Berkeley are you talking about?"

At this time, Professor Liu also came over and said sourly: "Where else is Berkeley? University of California, Berkeley! Zhang Wei, you are quite capable! It seems that the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University can't keep you. , when do you plan to go to the United States to develop?"

"Teacher, why are you talking about this! What happened?" Associate Professor Zhang Wei noticed that his tutor's face was not kind, so he quickly said with a smile:

"Teacher, please calm down first. Why don't I accept the punishment? But you have to make me understand. What did I do wrong to make you and the director angry?"

"Take a look at this!" Professor Liu handed Associate Professor Zhang Wei a journal and left without looking back.

Associate Professor Zhang Wei took the journal and looked at it. It was the latest issue of "ACM Computing Survey". The entire Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University has not ordered a few copies of this journal. When it was sent, a few professors read it first, and it was not their turn yet. As for him.

"What happened to "ACM Computing Surveys"?" Zhang Wei opened the journal and started reading from the table of contents.

A colleague next to him smiled and said: "Xiao Zhang, I can't find the page of the paper you published yourself! Come on, let me help you find it."

A colleague came forward to help Associate Professor Zhang Wei find the paper.

"A concise non-interactive knowledge argument for zero knowledge? Author, Zhang Wei."

Look at the labels at the back, Tsinghua University and University of California, Berkeley.

"I didn't write this paper. I never wrote this paper! It has the same name. It must be the same name!" Associate Professor Zhang Wei pointed at the journal and shouted loudly.

Hearing Associate Professor Zhang Wei shouting loudly, Professor Liu turned back.

"You didn't write the paper?"

Associate Professor Zhang Wei's head immediately shook like a rattle: "I didn't write it! It definitely wasn't written by me, I swear to God! If I had written this, I would be my dead wife!"

"Damn wife? You want good things!" Professor Liu snorted coldly, but his expression softened a lot.

The students he brought out with his own hands did not betray him, and he felt instantly at ease!
But others looked surprised.

The department chair immediately asked: "Xiao Zhang, you said this paper was not written by you? Are you sure?"

"This is the ACM Computing Survey. Not many people in China can publish papers in it. If I can publish papers in it, why wouldn't I admit it?"

"But it's Zhang Wei written above! In the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University, besides you, is there another Zhang Wei?"

"Could he be a graduate student? I remember that among the new graduate students this year, there seems to be one named Zhang Wei!" said a person next to him.

"There is also an undergraduate named Zhang Wei." Another person also said from the side.

"Check, go check it out!" The head of the department paused, and then said: "Except for those named Zhang Wei, as long as their names are in these two pinyin, check it out for me!"

……

The result of the inquiry was naturally fruitless.

The graduate student named Zhang Wei from the Department of Computer Science was admitted from another school. His level is very average and he doesn’t know what a zero-knowledge proof is. However, the undergraduate named Zhang Wei doesn’t even know the journal "ACM Computing Surveys". Have not heard.

The entire computer department of Tsinghua University is a little confused.

Such a heavyweight paper was published, but the author could not be found!
If you want to say that you are taking the blame, you can't find anyone.

This is a good thing to do to build a career, but it is really strange that no one can be found.

In the conference room of the Computer Science Department, a group of professors were discussing what to do.

"Director, do you think the ACM Computing Survey made a mistake? The Zhang Wei who published the paper is not from Tsinghua University at all."

"Do you think a journal of the level of "ACM Computing Surveys" can make such a low-level mistake? Moreover, when it comes to paper signatures, our Tsinghua University is still ahead of Berkeley. If this was not intentional by the editor, how could we be in it? In front of Berkeley!”

"Director, I have thought of a possibility. This paper was published by a professor from another department. After all, the signature of the paper only says Tsinghua University, not what department it is.

As far as I know, many professors in the engineering department have good computer skills. Maybe some of them are working on zero-knowledge proofs! "

"Don't tell me, it's really possible. Our Tsinghua University is full of talented people. We really can't rule it out!" Another person agreed.

The head of the department nodded: "It makes sense. It seems that we have to search for this professor named Zhang Wei throughout the school!"

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