Chapter 558, a simple errand wins the White House family dinner
Therefore, everything was as Alice expected, as soon as the news of the "theft" of the two Typhoon-class submarines was learned by the Ministry of Defense, she was found in less than a week. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info, there are still treatment batches among them, and the first thing that was really alarmed was the CIAs stationed abroad, and the NSA also went crazy to investigate all kinds of suspicious clues, and even the FBI was not idle, and began to investigate in China very professionally.
The 400 nuclear bombs fell into the hands of others, which is indeed not something that can be ignored by anyone, but fortunately the mainstream media did not get the relevant news, and even if they did, they could not broadcast it at will. The public is like this, and since Alice has been invited to the Pentagon, she naturally can't just leave, and she really has to live in Washington before a solution is actually given.
It's always easy and simple for professionals to fool the layman, and there's only one job that really needs Alice to do, and that's building a shell of a search engine. As for how to use it to find a needle in a haystack to find a website that sells nuclear bombs in a sea of information, it has nothing to do with her.
But the related supporting work still needs to be carried out, Alice did not lie, she did register the relevant technology of the search engine early. The poor people at the patent office are only experts in the administrative field, and they don't really have much understanding of what search engine technology means, they just care if the technology existed before.
So, on the first night out of the Pentagon, Alice immediately called Los Angeles and asked Sophie to find a random office in the Alice Building, register a company called Google, and classify the company in the computer field, but don't recruit any employees for the time being, just keep it an empty shell.
With a business and a patent, then everything is easy to do.
However, patent registration is very simple, but it is also very troublesome to practice. The development of the Internet search engine is a process, not a genius overnight, although this whole period of time is not a total of ten years, but it is only a microcosm of the overall situation of the computer industry, does not mean that it is really a forming technology.
The earliest example of a search engine was Yahoo, and in 1994, the company's founders, Zhiyuan Yang and Fei Luoshan, were studying at Stanford, and they became hooked on the Internet in order to complete their papers, searching for information all day long. In the process, they collected and bookmarked many sites that they were interested in, such as scientific research projects, tennis tournaments, and so on, so that they could find them.
However, as more and more sites were collected, they began to find it very inconvenient to find information, so they organized the bookmarks into categories, and when each directory could not fit enough, they subdivided them into subdirectories. This core approach has always been a Yahoo tradition.
Soon, the two talented young men were compiling the information into software and putting it on the Internet for other surfers to enjoy. Soon after, their website attracted a lot of users and received a lot of attention and popularity, with feedback and constructive comments to improve the content. In the 90s, such an inevitable and sudden event made the two of them embark on the road of entrepreneurship without hesitation, and thus realized the birth of a giant company called Yahoo.
However, while Yahoo has been successful, it is only the beginning when it comes to search engine technology. In fact, in the strict sense of the word, it is not even a search engine, and it is a manual classification of a large number of well-known websites, and Yahoo is really just a database website, which is far from the usual understanding.
Alice was a trick because she knew that for a long time, people in Silicon Valley really didn't have a good idea of patents.
In the later years, it was the little-known Archie who was really considered the originator of search engines - except, of course, people in the industry. It was in 1990 that teachers and students from the School of Computer Science at McGill University in Canada developed the program.
In this idea, people use FTP to share communication resources. Archie can periodically collect and analyze file name information on FTP servers, providing a way to find files in each FTP host. The user must search by entering the exact file name, and Archie tells the user which FTP server can download the file.
In general, although the information resources collected by Archie are not web pages, they work in the same way as a search engine: automatically collect information resources, build indexes, and provide search services.
However, as Alice was happy with, the group had no intention of registering a patent right now. Thanks to the fact that she had to register the relevant patents earlier, and now it is only February and March, and the technology and the company are even more bundled, and the remaining potential troubles in the future are simply not too much.
So the question arises, what kind of search engine should she provide to the Ministry of Defense?
Baidu?
Google it?
Just kidding, the software is so high-end, and the hardware is fundamentally chicken, isn't it?
So, Alice really just wrote Archie, of course, with an enhanced and optimized version. Once the product is provided, her job ends here, and the search for illegal websites is left to the NSA to deal with, and she has other things to do.
For example, having a meal at the White House with the Bushes.
"Thank you so much, Alice. ā
In the private dining room of the White House, Bush Sr. raised a glass to her and said: "Without your help, God knows how many detours those people will take!"
The members of the Secret Service and the waiters who serve the food will only appear in front of them when they need it, and the elegantly decorated restaurant, sumptuous and delicious food, except for the Bush family and Alice, only the light music played on the record player can be used as a third party, and there is a little sense of existence.
"Civic duty only, Mr. President. Playing tricks and making jokes, Alice clinked glasses with him and said, "How is it, do I have the demeanor of a Marine when I say this?"
Everyone laughed. As one of the accompaniments tonight, Alice's very familiar Bush Jr. was of course also present, the future 43rd president of the United States and the most brain-dead president in American history, who is still in his early forties this year, and has limited gray hair growth.
"Alice, I've been hearing some news from the Manhattan real estate community lately, and you seem to be building a Vanda Plaza in Midtown?"
Alice put down the glass, swallowed the orange juice she had just eaten, and looked at George W. Bush: "Oh, we're going to talk about this now? I guess you've visited my first square in London?"
Bush Jr. shook his head and smiled: "That's not yet, my father has been busy with the affairs of the Soviet Union recently, and now Gorbachev has poked such a big man again, and we have to lose a lot of hair for him here." ā
So, what do you mean by talking about this all of a sudden? Alice had a smirk on her face, resisting the urge to splash orange juice on his face.
Sure enough, Bush Sr. immediately set up a round for his bear child: "Haha, Alice's career is really developing better and better, constantly and rapidly moving from the computer industry to industrial real estate, and also moving the territory from the West Coast to the East Coast." But Midtown Manhattan is a big deal, and if you really want to build Vanda Plaza there, it's going to cost a lot, right?"
Seeing that the father and son opened and closed their mouths to "Vanda Plaza", the name of such a project, rather than "Vanda Corporation's industry" as a noun unit, Alice knew in her heart.
Needless to say, how can politicians invite capitalists to family dinners just for the sake of a routine?
I only heard the elder Bush continue: "At the same time, you have become more closely associated with arms dealers, Northrop Grumman specializes in the production of warships and radars, and has taken charge of the construction of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, and has also made considerable achievements in the field of military industry. It's no surprise that they'll be able to find you to work with, and it's becoming more and more obvious that computers will play a role in the future. ā
Bush Sr. spoke slowly, and Alice thought quickly, so sure enough, the next topic began to focus on the military industry. Bush Sr. was chattering, Alice was pondering, the Soviet Union was crumbling, two Typhoon-class nuclear submarines were stolen, the Iran-Iraq war was over, but relations between Iraq and Kuwait were strained again. Thinking about the main move taken by Bush Sr. in the past four years in office, the purpose of this dinner is extremely obvious.
"Modern warfare is increasingly relying on information superiority, and this is all dependent on the high development of computer technology. Alice, I've heard that you've set up a computer research institute in the UK, and in the past three or two years, you've produced some interesting patents, such as the USB standard at the beginning of the year. So I'm curious, are you going to grab IBM's supercomputer market?"
ā¦ā¦ What the?
Alice is waiting for Bush Sr. to talk to her about the development of the military industry, why did the style of painting suddenly change?
Ah no, why did the tone of conversation suddenly change?
"Supercomputer ......"
Alice blinked twice: "If you can get your hands on more advanced industrial machine tools, which I design by myself, Intel can indeed produce a cross-era CPU immediately." So to say kill IBM...... Absolutely...... You're ......"
"Oh, don't get me wrong, I didn't want you to compete with IBM, and that has nothing to do with me, right?" Bush Sr. laughed and said, "Just you know, kid, the stronger the United States, the more we need a strong military force to support this power." Modern warfare depends heavily on computer performance, and if you can provide the Ministry of Defense with a batch of supercomputers with exceptionally superior performance, I believe this will be of great benefit to each other's future development, right?"
It turned out that such a big circle was for this kind of thing.
Alice quickly realized that the Gulf War would start in ten months. It is said that the Gulf War changed the mode of war since World War II, but that was only as a result of presenting it to the world, and the White House and the military top must have been establishing a new combat system long ago!