Chapter 66: The Contract on the Road to the Top
Reading is an ability, and reading is not an easy thing.
There are always people who think that monthly reading is reading, but this is not the case.
Reading is the process of reading information from a target object.
For example, with more than 400 archives, how to use the fastest time to read each piece of data in detail, and score the indicators of the entire city, this is a kind of reading ability.
Although the professor is old, his eyes are not very good, but his monthly reading ability is very strong.
An archive, he only needs to open it for ten minutes, and he can evaluate the archive up and down.
However, despite the fact that ten minutes is a very short time, there are still more than 400 copies of the archive. That adds up to more than 4,000 minutes.
Even if you can watch it for four hours a day, you can only watch it for 240 minutes a day, and you can only read 24 archives.
It will take at least half a month to read them all.
In the past half a month, the professor used almost all of his free time to judge these archives when he was juggling off-campus projects.
What makes him uncomfortable is that when he's away on a business trip, there's no way to evaluate these archives. Not even if you have free time on the train or plane, because it doesn't have a laptop computer that can open games anytime, anywhere.
Although IBM has launched a suitcase-like laptop, this portable computer has a big problem: it is not good for performance and battery life.
Although it solves the problem of starting from scratch for many business people, it is still a long process from having it to being easy to use.
Moreover, because the various technical patents of lithium batteries are in the hands of Wanhu Group, the cost of using lithium batteries for these computers is not low at all.
However, the only thing that is commendable is that IBM has added a feature called the little red dot to laptops without using a mouse.
This small red dot is on the left side of the keyboard, and the user only needs to move his finger lightly to change the cursor.
Rather than moving your entire hand to the touchpad, this small detail can go a long way in terms of productivity.
As a result, although IBM's laptop computers are not very practical, the call for IBM to launch the little red dot keyboard is getting louder and louder.
However, due to the complex mechanical structure, even if the keyboard is launched, the price will not be more competitive than the keyboard sold on the market.
More importantly, the keyboard market is also controlled by 10,000 households.
The world's keyboard standards and manufacturing are controlled by an organization called the Keyboard Standards Committee, and the advocate of this committee is none other than Wanhu Group.
And the manufacturers such as Logitech, Cherry, Razer, etc., which have joined this organization, are also major manufacturers of keyboard production and keyboard parts.
Although IBM is also in this committee, it also has the power to produce keyboards, but it needs the permission of the Keyboard Standards Association to change the structure of the standard keyboard without permission.
Originally, their little red dot was applied to their own laptop, and it didn't take much effort for the keyboard standards committee to approve it.
However, if IBM wanted to produce such a keyboard alone, it would infringe on the interests of other members. Unless the little red dot's patent is shared, there is no need to expect other Microsoft to agree to it.
Speaking of returning to the professor, the professor who worked overtime and was socially responsible, finally read all the archives, wrote down the scores in the next notebook, and organized them into a spreadsheet.
About seventy percent of the cadets built cities that met his overall scoring criteria. However, only 10 cities meet his definition of excellence.
Of the ten, the one he cared about the most was the submission of a student named Rogge.
The whole city is not only efficient and aesthetically pleasing, but also has great insights into the future direction of urban planning.
You know, it's not easy to have insights and not foolish in the eyes of a professional like a professor. Just as innovation is not something that can be done by any one person, it is not allowed to have a professional foundation and industry insights in order to make reliable innovation.
Otherwise, it's not called innovation, it's nonsense.
The professor had already thought of designating Rogge as his graduate student, but when he looked through the roster, he found that the name of the student was not on the roster at all.
This made the professor feel incredible.
You must know that this is a real-name competition, and any student must use his or her original name to participate in the competition, otherwise he or she will not get credits.
And after the professor matched all the names to the list, he found that there was no less, only Rogge.
The professor is also a man who loves wisdom and truth, although he never says so, but he proves himself with practical actions.
He soon began to investigate where the man named Rog came from.
Not to mention that his investigation method was really effective, within three days, he knew who Rogge's surname was, and asked the person who helped Rogge to submit the manuscript and asked him to notify Rogge to come to his class.
So, after waiting for a few days, the results of the "SimCity 2000" competition of the Department of Urban Planning were finally announced.
When they learned that they were qualified, they hugged each other and cried.
And those students who learned that they did not pass the audit were stunned one by one.
The 10 outstanding students were also very excited when they learned that they would receive scholarships.
In the end, when it came to Rogge, the professor didn't mention any scholarships, but asked directly, "Rogge, would you like to be my graduate student?"
"I'm not a student of urban planning. Rogge replied.
"What's wrong. The professor smiled and stepped down from the podium, took out a document, and placed it in front of Rogge, "There is a document here, and after you sign it, you will become a student of the Department of Urban Planning, and you will become my graduate student immediately after completing your undergraduate studies." Well...... If you want to do a PhD with me, I would welcome you. ”
There was an uproar at the scene.
Even the friend who informed Rog was dumbfounded.
He never expected the professor to come back with such a hand, you know, although the professor himself is very strict, but he can become his graduate student, without exception, he has become a future star in the field of urban planning.
This is not self-apclaimed by professors, but something that has been proven by one student after another in the past.
In the past, it was very difficult for graduate students to take the professor's exam, but now the professor actually takes the initiative to ask students to be his own graduate students, even doctoral students, and is still a student who is not a student of the Department of Urban Planning, you must know that this is unprecedented big news!
"Agree!"
Countless students shouted in their hearts, they looked at the wooden Rogge, wishing that they were Rogge and signed that contract!