"Zack, you don't enroll, and you often come to skip classes, as the provost of Stanford, I think it is necessary to introduce some regulations to avoid this phenomenon, otherwise it will be too unfair to Stanford students, what do you think?" Rice sat opposite Zhang Chen with a plate of salad.

Since Zhang Chen found out that almost no one cares about Stanford's undergraduate courses and can skip classes casually, he has made a statistics of the courses he wants to listen to, combined with his own schedule, and comes over from time to time to take a class or two.

Rice also mentioned to Zhang Chen that if he wants to come to Stanford, as long as the SAT score is not too low, submit an application to Stanford, and Stanford will not reject him.

Stanford's annual acceptance rate for overseas students is only about 5%, and the competition is very cutthroat. But on the one hand, Zhang Chen has now got a green card and is no longer considered an overseas student, and on the other hand, his current achievements, even if he does not have a letter of recommendation, it is not difficult to want a chance to study at Stanford.

Thinking about the fact that he was rejected three times for graduate school at the University of California, Freynos in his previous life, and now the provost of Stanford and the future U.S. Secretary of State took the initiative to invite him to enroll, Zhang Chen felt so comfortable.

This Thai restaurant is a star restaurant in Stanford, Zhang Chen sucked the last bit of tom yum soup in the bowl, and patted his stomach with satisfaction: "Our president Gerhard Caspar just said a few days ago that the university is a public service organization, and whether it is a Stanford student or not, has the right to get an education at Stanford. ”

Rice was suspicious: "Gerhard seems to have only said the first half of the sentence, right?"

Zhang Chen wiped his mouth: "This is my understanding of the spirit of Mr. President's speech, since it is a public service organization, like a park or a museum, of course you can skip classes." ”

Rice was helpless: "Okay, okay, but you think about it carefully." Although you tell me that you have been early accepted into one of the best universities in your country, Stanford is one of the best schools in the world, and you can learn so much more at Stanford. ”

Zhang Chen shrugged: "Of course, that's why I came to class." ”

Rice shook his head: "There are many courses that people from outside the school can't participate in, especially those that are related to practice. ”

Zhang Chen complained: "This is the most annoying point, Condoliza, can you tell Professor Teman, I have been auditing the relevant courses of me310 recently, but like you said, the content of the lectures is too little, and most of the courses have to be studied in groups. ”

Rice laughed and said, "Do you really want to keep going on and on? me310 Stanford's formal student applications may not be able to apply, and the course is very difficult, do you think you can learn anything just by auditing two classes?"

Zhang Chen laughed twice, and said, "Actually, I'm really not just for class. I have recently set up a new IT company and would like to start some collaboration with ME310 and ME218 to incorporate some of our research topics into the research content of ME310 and ME218. ”

ME310ABC and ME218ABCD are both ace courses of Stanford ME (Mechanical Engineering) majors, and there are many people who take them. Not only do you have to listen to lectures, but there are also a lot of practical content.

HP, Apple, IBM, Cisco and other companies will cooperate with me on part of their R&D content and put the research content into the curriculum, which on the one hand gives students the opportunity to learn in advance, and on the other hand, it also improves the R&D efficiency and saves R&D costs for enterprises.

Rice has always admired Zhang Chen, otherwise he would not have persuaded Zhang Chen to join Stanford, and asked curiously: "What kind of project is it?"

Zhang Chen thought for a while: "It mainly focuses on the field of photoelectric reflection, which includes the matching of light-emitting diodes and optical lens components to improve the scanning accuracy of photoelectric reflection. ”

Rice shrugged: "Okay, what you said is too professional, I don't know how pioneering and forward-looking your project is in the industry as a whole, if it is groundbreaking enough, I can introduce Professor Dawson to you, and you can talk to him." ”

Zhang Chen said happily: "Thank you, can you contact Professor Dawson in a moment? I will also ask my R&D director to come over immediately." ”

Rice shook his head helplessly: "I have come into contact with so many Asian students, and you are the most unkind one." Well, I'll give Dawson a call first and see if he has any arrangements for the afternoon. ”

Rice called Dawson and chatted, "Okay, he has time between one and half past one at noon, you can go to him for dinner." By the way, how's Karim?"

Karim is Shanatanu's nickname, Zhang Chen said with a smile: "He is very busy every day now, the chemical plant we cooperate with has been put into operation in Huaxia, although he is not yet a qualified chairman, but with Johnson on the side to guide and assist, he has grown very fast, don't worry." ”

Rice nodded: "It seems that it was right to hand over Karim to you at the beginning, this child has been too weak and too kind since he was a child, and it makes me feel much more relieved to have you help him." ”

Zhang Chen pondered for a moment, "Kang Duoliza, you must be an excellent politician in the future, and you can say hurtful things so without a trace, only politicians and talk show hosts can do it." ”

Rice laughed, "Okay, you should inform your R&D director quickly, Dawson is famous for being punctual, if you are late, he will definitely not see you again." ”

Zhang Chen and Bob Mansfield met with Professor Dawson on time, and Dawson was very interested in the topic proposed by Zhang Chen, and said that he could open a special topic for students to study, but if there were research results, Zhang Chen would have to fully fund the research and development funds of this research if he wanted to obtain all the patent rights.

Zhang Chen naturally patted his chest and agreed, less than 100,000 US dollars in sponsorship, this project is only two months in total, that is to say, Dawson believes that this little thing can be done in two months at most.

Although even if it is researched, Matrix's optical mouse cannot cooperate with the sales of i in the first time. But at least in time for the launch in May, and if things go well, it may be possible to sell it with the batch of i in July or August.

"Zack, I really don't understand, why do you have to give i an optical mouse, this thing is too costly, and the use restrictions are too great. Bob Mansfield wiped the sweat from his head and grumbled. "Dawson is now full of promises to you, and when the delivery is made you'll know how much trouble he's going to have. ”

Now there is also an optical mouse, but in fact, it is more like a special handwriting tablet, the mouse moves on a special reflector full of grids, although the positioning accuracy is very high, but it is very inconvenient to use, the failure rate is very high, and once the reflector is dirty or worn, this mouse can not be used.

Zhang Chen's old god was saying: "Of course, don't you think the current scroll wheel mouse is too rubbish? I hate to take out the ball in the mouse every few days and clean up the three rollers inside the mouse, it's really disgusting." ”

"And the current mouse accuracy is not enough, let me ask you, who are our target customers?"

Bob muffled: "Need to do image processing and gamers who like to play games." ”

Zhang Chen snapped his fingers: "That's right, but the current scroll wheel mouse has a maximum accuracy of only 200dpi, even if it is a brand new mouse with no defacement at all, in a resolution of more than 800*600, the performance is not good enough, and it cannot meet the needs of image processing and gamers." Therefore, we must get an optical mouse above 400dpi. ”

Bob suddenly.

"And, think about it again, what would the effect be if we came up with the world's first, only, and most beautiful optical mouse at the launch of i?"