Chapter 232: Turing Award Gala
It is not surprising that the biological cornea has been unanimously favored by myopia patients across the country.
In late April, and throughout May, the whole nation was talking about biocorneas.
I don't know when a popular sentence became popular on the Internet: Did you change your cornea today?
You can imagine how hot the biological cornea is!
Of course, there are also many myopia prevention and treatment experts who jump out and say that the safety of biological corneas has not been fully demonstrated, and it cannot be ruled out that it will cause some potential eye diseases.
But soon some netizens picked it up, those experts who shouted that the biological cornea was unsafe, some of them had obviously worn glasses before, but recently the glasses on the bridge of their noses were gone.
Then after deep digging by netizens, it was found that those myopic eye experts had already implanted biological corneas in April.
It's really like smashing the pot after eating.
Is this TM a human thing?
For a time, public opinion was in an uproar.
Under the huge pressure of public opinion, two of the famous myopia prevention and control experts had to stand up and explain: Although the myopia is cured, it must be just right!
Oh~~
Now everyone understands, this is a black collection of money.
It is no wonder that after the launch of biological corneas, such as Dr., Bausch & Lomb, Baodao, Wu Liangcai, Weikang, Haichang, etc., these chain optical stores can only sell toad lenses in the future;
There are also domestic and foreign reLEx, semi-femtosecond, and excimer laser equipment production companies, all of which are going to close their doors, and of course they hate the bionic biological cornea.
So, these experts say that the biological cornea is not good or bad during the day, but it does not prevent them from taking their myopic family members to do family packages at night.
There should be a distinction between life and work.
They've studied myopia for half their lives, and of course they know what really good things are!
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Just when the biocornea became a household name in China, foreign capitalists also came to the door to discuss cooperation.
As long as you are not stupid, it is only a matter of time before you can see that the biological cornea will fully replace myopia glasses and surgical treatment.
However, the price offered by Xinghai Technology made those agents who came to the door complain.
Biocorneas are sold at a flat price of $1,500 overseas.
This is only the ex-factory price, plus import tariffs, the total generation earns 20%, the generation earns 20%, and then the hospital has to earn 30%, and the biological cornea to the patient's eye may be 2500~3000 US dollars.
This price is 4 times the implant price in China.
It's an exaggeration.
And you should know that a large proportion of Chinese patients can enjoy discounts, while foreign patients do not enjoy a dime of discounts.
The real gap is even greater.
But there is no way, there is no money to make and the sky thunders.
No matter how expensive it is, you still have to buy it.
This time, SK Group, a major agent of Hankook, was the happiest, ordering 50,000 pairs of biocorneas at one time.
SK Group has the largest cosmetic surgery hospital in Hankook, and the demand for biocorneas is huge.
Then there are customers from other countries on all continents, who are also placing orders.
Since the beginning of June, in addition to continuing to sell well in China, an average of about 100,000 pairs of biocorneas have been sent to the world every day.
This number is still expanding as more agents join the promotion.
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June 15th, this is a special day.
The 2021 Turing Awards were held in San Francisco, USA.
This year's Turing Award is a bit special, in previous years, the Turing Award list was announced in March, and the winners in June just came to receive the award.
However, this year, the winners were not announced until June, which has been a lot of discussion in the outside world.
Today, Academician Yao Qizhi, Academician Liu Chenglin and Chen Xu were all invited to the party, as well as some business bigwigs in the domestic artificial intelligence industry, such as Li Kaifu, co-founder of Sinovation Works.
As for the party scene, all kinds of computer giants and business leaders gathered, and if they picked out a random person, they were all trembling in the industry.
Soon it was time for the award ceremony, but the host was still waiting for the Turing Award jury to discuss, and there was a whisper of discussion on the scene.
Liu Chenglin leaned closer to Chen Xu's ear and said, "Will there be any moths?"
Chen Xu smiled and said, "Whatever, I don't care anymore." ”
Academician Yao also smiled and said: "Yes, it's better to get the Turing Award, it doesn't matter if you don't get it, Xiao Chen's contribution to artificial intelligence no longer needs to be proved by the Turing Award." ”
Listening to the two singing and harmonizing, Liu Chenglin, who has always been obsessed with the Turing Award in his heart, turned his head and looked around at the star-studded awards party.
He thought of the intelligent translation software developed by Chen Xu.
Chen Xu's understanding of natural language processing has reached the pinnacle, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the first person in the world.
Although this matter has never been brought to the table, which expert and scholar who studies natural language processing in any country in the world is not clear in his heart?
It's just that everyone is pretending to be confused!
Because Chen Xu is not a pure scholar, there are too many commercial interests involved.
However, if the Turing Award was not awarded to Chen Xu today, or to someone else in front of Chen Xu, Chen Xu might be disappointed, but the winner should be even more ashamed!
After figuring it out, Liu Chenglin felt much calmer.
Minutes and seconds passed.
The discussion of the invited guests in the audience became louder and louder.
Everyone knows why this year's Turing Award winners have not been announced, but most scholars still hope that the Turing Award will be free from political influence and fair!
Finally, at 7:20 p.m., the host, Willie Johnston, president of the Computer Society of the United States, walked onto the stage with a smile on his face.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. For some reason, the list of winners has not been determined, but just now, the jury finally agreed!"
After a pause, Willie Johnston smiled: "Now I announce that the winner of the 2021 Turing Award, he is ......"
The scene was silent.
Everyone held their breath and looked at Willie Johnston.
"INVENTOR OF THE CX LANGUAGE, CHENXU!"
"Bang Bang ......"
"Bang Bang ......"
As Willy Johnston's words fell, the audience burst into thunderous applause.
Everyone looked at the table where Chen Xu was sitting, and the lighting engineer also turned on a beam of light in time.
Academician Yao, Liu Chenglin, Li Kaifu, and the other two people at the table got up and hugged Chen Xu.
"Congratulations. ”
"Thank you. ”
"Congratulations, congratulations. ”
"Thank you......"
Academician Yao, who has been comforting Chen Xu to be calm, kept saying "good" and "not bad" in his mouth when he was holding Chen Xu.
Liu Chenglin was even more tearful.
"Chen, you are this ......" When Chen Xu walked towards the stage, scientists and business people from all over the table gave Chen Xu a thumbs up and applauded loudly.
Chen Xu smiled and nodded all the way.
On the stage, Willie Johnston took the initiative to reach out and hug Chen Xu.
After letting go of her hand, Miss Manners walked up holding the silver bowl, which symbolized the highest honor in the computer industry.
Willie Johnston picked up the silver bowl and handed it to Chen Xu, along with the certificate.
"Congratulations Chen!"
"Thank you!"
Chen Xu reached out and shook hands with Willie Johnston.
Willie Johnston stepped down with Miss Manners, leaving the stage to Chen Xu......
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