From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

The time before the opening ceremony of the meeting passed quickly.

Jiang Wenping stepped onto the stage to try the microphone twice, and finally politely reminded the order of the venue.

Wang Hao could only stop talking with Schultz in regret, and found his seat to sit down.

Just like most conferences, computer academic conferences start with speeches, but they don't say too much meaningless content.

Jiang Wenping and another chairman came to the stage and talked about welcome to the meeting and the meaning and purpose of the meeting.

These can all be classified in the ranks of 'meaningless'.

Then it entered the formal content, talked about the process of the conference, introduced the three academic lecture halls, and the process of reviewing and collecting conference papers, and finally selected several awards, etc.

This part took about 20 minutes. After everything was explained, the opening ceremony would be over.

People in the venue can freely choose from three lecture halls, including invited judges like Wang Hao, and they can also enter any lecture hall at will. The difference is that they can sit directly in the first row of "invited judges" seats.

Invited review does not have a confirmed job. To put it bluntly, it is just an "honorary title". The review of the paper report is mainly in the charge of the review team.

There will be several review experts in each lecture hall, who are responsible for the review of the report. The seats of the review group are on the left and right sides of the podium, which looks like the referee's seat of a sports competition.

Wang Hao didn't know such a complicated distinction until he attended the meeting. He breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't have a corresponding job, and he could sit directly in the first row. It felt really good.

Zhang Zhiqiang chose Lecture Hall No. 1. Many of the reports in Hall No. 1 are related to information reception and processing, and have a lot to do with his research.

Wang Hao went to the second hall.

When I came to the first row of specially invited review seats, I realized that Hall 2 didn’t seem to be very popular, probably because there were few major achievements in theory-related research, and only a few people sat in the specially invited review seats.

Although no one was familiar with them, Wang Hao still nodded slightly to them as a greeting, and then found a seat on the left side to sit down.

Considering that there are a few middle-aged people in their forties and fifties on the other side, and a foreign professor who looks a little sloppy, as if he hasn't showered for a long time, it's quite comfortable to sit alone.

However, he was not able to remain silent for long.

An old white-haired old man sat beside him with a teenage white girl. The girl was sitting next to Wang Hao, and the old man was separated from him by a seat.

Wang Hao glanced curiously.

The old white man took off his shirt jacket and put it on the armchair, sat down and looked at Wang Hao, and said, "You are Dr. Wang Hao, right? I have seen your photo. My name is Jeffrey Hinton , for your report."

A name reveals a lot of information.

One of the three giants of artificial intelligence, the former vice president of Google, Jeffrey Hinton, with his scientific research on neural networks and intelligent deep learning, won the Turing Award.

"Mr. Hinton."

Wang Hao greeted politely, looked at the teenage girl next to him, and asked, "Your student?"

"Just call me Jeffrey." Jeffrey Hinton pointed at the little girl and said, "She is my granddaughter, Helen. In fact, another reason for coming here to attend the meeting is to bring Helen to meet her. In the world, her parents gave her to me, but I don't know how to take care of children, so I just came here."

Helen complained, "Jeffrey, I am no longer a child."

"Of course, you are already fifteen years old, you are a big girl." Jeffrey Hinton said seriously, but anyone could hear that the words were wrong.

Helen pouted in dissatisfaction.

Wang Hao said in a slightly complaining tone, "So, you brought her to the computer academic conference?"

Jeffrey Hinton looked at the podium calmly, "It's Helen's request."

Helen turned her head to look at Wang Hao, opened her eyes wide and said seriously, "I'm about to finish my university courses, and I'm considering the subject direction of graduate school. I don't know whether to choose mathematics, computer or biology."

"My dad advised me to study biology, Geoffrey thought computers were good, but I liked math."

Jeffrey Hinton added an explanation, "Helen is about to get two bachelor's degrees, one in mathematics and one in biological science."

He added, "I advised her to study computing or biology, and to put it bluntly, maths is not for women. There are very few female mathematicians as evidenced by it, but she always thought my views were misogynistic."

"Uh~~"

Wang Hao felt that the grandpa and grandson seemed to have come to Versailles specially.

Fifteen-year-old girl about to get two bachelor's degrees? She is confused about the choice of future postgraduate study, wondering whether to study mathematics, computer or biology?

Is this a random choice?

He pursed his lips vigorously, and it took him a long time to say, "Jeffrey, Helen is excellent."

Jeffrey Hinton seemed to have just heard a very common thing, and his face was completely devoid of the joy of being praised, and there was not even a slight change. He just said two words plainly, "I-Know."

We definitely won't be able to talk today.

Helen took the initiative to say, "In the eyes of others, my family members are all excellent. My father is a professor of biology, and my mother is a neurologist."

When Wang Hao was about to say something, he heard Helen continue, "But I looked through the history of the family and found that my parents' generation, the family has declined."

Helen pointed to Jeffrey Hinton and said, "My grandfather's father is Howard, an entomologist. Howard's younger brother is a teacher, and his younger sister is a chemist."

"Jeffrey's uncle was an economist and a famous diplomat."

"Further up, Jeffrey's grandfather, my grandfather's grandfather, George Buller, was a mining engineer and botanist who ran silver mines in Mexico, and George's brother Sebastian was a famous inventor, and his wife, Carmelita, founder of the Putney School."

"Sebastian's son, William Howard, is a famous Marxist scholar. It is worth mentioning that William participated in the Manhattan Project."

"Further up, George and Sebastian's father, Charles, was a mathematician and science fiction writer. He proposed the concept of a three-dimensional hypercube and was a professor at Princeton University. Charles' wife's father was very famous, George- Boolean, Boolean algebra, Boolean circuits, Boolean types, Boolean expressions... you should know."

Helen traced back the six generations of her ancestors in a row, then pointed to Jeffrey next to her, and said with regret, "After careful study of the family history, I discovered that the reason for the family's decline lies in Jeffrey."

Jeffrey Hinton covered his face with his hands, as if he had done something wrong.

Then I heard Helen say, "My grandma is just an ordinary person. She dropped out of school after graduating from high school, and she didn't come out to work afterward."

"Jeffrey chose to spend his life with her only because of her beauty, but he didn't consider how much negative impact the decision made under the control of hormones in the body would have on future generations."

Helen said and pointed to her head, the expression on her face was clearly very dissatisfied.

Wang Hao pursed his lips extremely hard, feeling that the corners of his mouth were almost pulled to the back of his head. Looking at the lonely-looking grandpa and grandson, he couldn't help feeling sad for the 'grandma' who didn't know if he had passed away.

However, I had to admit that what Helen said seemed to make sense.

Each of the ancestors from a hundred years ago was extremely outstanding, even dating back to the famous 'George Boole', and every subsequent generation was also very outstanding. How come Jeffrey's next generation has become...

its not right!

Wang Hao suddenly realized that Helen's parents were also biologists and doctors, and they were social elites no matter how they were judged.

This is Versailles?

no.

The loneliness of Jeffrey and Helen doesn't seem fake. In other words, they really think that the family has declined, probably because Helen's father is just an 'ordinary' biologist?

Wang Hao thought about it carefully, tried to put himself into the perspective of Jeffrey and Helen, and said, "Actually, you don't have to feel sad. It is true that mediocre wisdom can be passed on to future generations, but Helen also inherited the wisdom from her grandmother." beauty."

"The progress of human genetics is not only about wisdom, but appearance is also very important."

He was just trying to persuade.

Helen thought about it for a while, then came to her senses, and said suddenly, "I see, what you mean is that a good appearance can increase the scope of choosing a spouse, and you can have more and better choices. To complete the combination of genetics and produce better offspring."

"It's no wonder that most of my distant cousins ​​are mediocre, because Jeffrey's generation looks very mediocre, coupled with the influence of the social environment, the choice of spouses is very small, making it impossible to find corresponding excellent men. "

"Uh~~"

"Do I mean that?" Wang Hao was at a loss for words. He somewhat understood why Helen's parents decided to hand over Helen to Jeffrey.

Judging by the appearance of the grandfather and grandson, their personalities are probably similar.

Helen said a lot of things that were 'difficult for ordinary people to accept', many of which were from Jeffrey himself, and even involved 'abuse' of his grandmother's low IQ, Jeffrey didn't refute a word, he seemed to think it was right, and Ashamed of it.

Powerless to complain!

Wang Hao decided not to talk to this strange pair of grandparents, and listened carefully to the report on the podium.

The report level of the meeting is still very high, the lowest level is at the level of ordinary SCI, and the contents are all cutting-edge to a certain extent, and some of them will make people's eyes shine.

Of course, there are also some differences.

Some are due to the content, the research lacks forward-looking, the lack of innovation makes people feel very boring, and the evaluation and reference value will be poor.

Some are on the level of English. Not all of them have the experience of going abroad. Some people are good at learning English, but not necessarily good at speaking. When giving reports in English, it will be a little bit difficult to express.

One of them was unable to continue speaking, and he was obviously very nervous on the stage.

Faced with this situation, Wang Hao said the only piece of advice since he participated in the meeting, "I forgot how to say it, just use Chinese, not necessarily 100% English."

The man immediately expressed his gratitude to Wang Hao.

Many people in the audience also expressed their approval of what Wang Hao said, and some even applauded in support.

Wang Hao also sighed in his heart. He also has no experience of going abroad, and his English is only good because his predecessor has a high level. Otherwise, his presentation at an international academic conference will be affected.

This is something that is temporarily powerless to change.

International academic conferences held in China also have to speak in English. According to international practice, conferences attended by people from more than three countries will speak in English.

For example, the STACS conferences held in Germany and France are also reported in English.

In this computer conference, there are more than 600 scholars from abroad, and one-third of the jury members are foreign scholars. It is definitely not practical to give a report in Chinese.

Maybe one day in the future, the level of domestic science and technology far exceeds that of foreign countries, and its influence spreads throughout the world. Chinese will replace English as the international language, and conferences held in other countries will also use Chinese as their report?

Wang Hao thought with some longing.

...

For a whole day, Wang Hao listened to the report carefully, and arrived on time in the morning and afternoon. He sat in his seat without moving, and most scholars could not last a day.

Scholars are not like officials. Most of them don’t listen to the content they are not interested in, or communicate with other people in a low voice, or simply leave the conference hall and go to other conference halls to read the content.

The same goes for the invited judges in the first row.

Wang Hao was the only one who persevered throughout the day. The weird grandson Xindun walked away after listening to the report for two hours.

Other people in the distance didn't make it to the end, especially when it was halfway through the last game in the afternoon, Wang Hao was the only one left in the first row, and the others left early.

The person on stage was a postdoctoral lecturer from Shencheng University. Halfway through the lecture, he found that many people had left, and his tone became very unconfident. Fortunately, there was only one left in the first row.

After the report was finished, the person who made the report came over specially, held Wang Hao's hand with both hands, and expressed his gratitude from the bottom of his heart. He felt that Wang Hao must have continued to sit and listen carefully because of his politeness.

In fact, Wang Hao didn't listen too seriously. He would listen carefully to reports related to his own research, or some interesting content.

It is really difficult to listen to the content that is not interesting, irrelevant, and has no bright spots in the research, but he persisted until the end, hoping to learn more about the content so that he can have a reference for his research.

Unfortunately, most computer conferences have nothing to do with basic research in mathematics.

【Task 3】

【Inspiration value: 73】

One day added '9' points, the number is still acceptable, but considering that talking to Pete Schultz added '7' points of inspiration, and listening to a day's report added the remaining '2' 'Point, the efficiency of listening to reports is indeed too low.

After Wang Hao left the lecture hall, he also walked towards the restaurant. On the way, he ran into Grandpa and grandson of Xindun who were sitting leisurely by the pool.

Helen stopped Wang Hao, with a cheerful smile on her face, "I bet Jeffrey that you will be able to persevere until the end, and I won in the end."

Jeffrey said depressedly, "Why did you come out so late, what's there to listen to those reports?"

Wang Hao said with dull eyes, "The reports of other people may be very helpful to my research."

"What research?"

"Prime numbers."

"Prime numbers?"

Jeffrey stood up, stared at Wang Hao's face carefully, and it took a long time before he spoke, "I was telling Helen just now that you also have good genes in terms of appearance, but now, I think you should have Make use of this genetic specialty."

"Why?"

"You are studying prime numbers, that is, analytic number theory, right? By the age of thirty, your hair will become very thin, and by the age of forty, your hair may not be as good as mine. You know, people's appearance Looks, genetics do matter, but body shape matters as much as hair."

Wang Hao was silent for a long time, before thinking about it, he said, "Maybe I should consider getting a hair transplant?"

Jeffrey thought about it carefully, and said with approval, "It doesn't matter then." He called Helen and planned to go to the restaurant for dinner together.

Wang Hao looked at the behavior of the grandpa and grandson, thinking that he should find a reason to leave?

have a meal together?

Being in contact with them for a long time may greatly affect the way of thinking!

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