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Gu Cheng departed from the Fairmont Hotel in Boston at 9 a.m. after breakfast, and theoretically arrived in Toronto at 2 p.m.

At 12 noon, I happened to pass through Buffalo, and stopped for lunch in Buffalo before hitting the road.

Buffalo belongs to the state of New York, is a border city between the United States and Canada, right on the west bank of the Niagara River in the mouth of Lake Erie, and the world-famous Niagara Falls can be seen in the northern suburbs of the city.

For Chinese people, the city of Buffalo is also famous for its fact that it is the home of New York University's Buffalo campus, which is the alma mater of Baidu's boss Li.

So Gu Cheng asked the bodyguard and driver to go around the Buffalo campus, take some photos and admire it, and then found a Chinese restaurant on the Canadian side of the Great Falls Scenic Area to have lunch before driving north.

Before Gu Cheng came, he borrowed the channel of Harvard's Harrison trustee to send a letter of exchange, and also identified himself. Therefore, the University of Toronto should attach great importance to it.

Any entrepreneur who can get on the NASDAQ is a great foreign aid that top universities need to strive for.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Cheng arrived on time in Mississauga City, located in the western suburbs of Toronto, one of the three campuses of the University of Toronto, which is called the Mississauga campus, which is located in this satellite city. Toronto's Pearson International Airport is also in Mississauga.

Gu Cheng came to North America this time, and at first he only brought the core henchmen of YY Network Technology and Legend Entertainment, and there were no people with Eslite audio, so Lin Zhiling flew directly from Taipei to Toronto after being notified by Gu Cheng the day before yesterday.

Gu Cheng picked up Lin Zhiling, the guide, at a hotel near Pearson International Airport, and then went straight to the Mississauga campus.

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"Cheng Gu's trip is mainly to the Mississauga campus? He's an online media person, so what can he talk about with the professors there?"

In the principal's office, Vice President Edmund felt unbelievable after he got Gu Cheng's itinerary from Harvard's Harrison.

The Mississauga campus doesn't even offer undergraduate degree programs in computer science, and only a few less important research areas have graduate programs. The University of Toronto's top R&D strength in the field of computing is concentrated on the main campus, St. George's.

"If he wasn't going to come to St. George's, how could he know how strong we are in Toronto......? No, it's rare to have such a big donor to investigate, we must let him see more, I heard that he just established a non-profit basic scientific research foundation a few days ago......"

Vice Chancellor Edmund thought so and dialed an internal number.

"Is Professor Cook there? what? just got back from the lab? Let him take the phone. Vice Principal Edmund changed his hand to make the microphone more comfortable, and then he heard someone on the other side of the phone pick it up, and he immediately said in a consultative tone:

"Stephen, would you like to go to Mississauga in the afternoon? This kind of rich man who wants to go to NASDAQ must be received by someone from your computer department, and it is easier to take out something. ”

The person who answered the phone was Professor Stephen Cook, director of the Institute of Computer Technology at the University of Toronto.

Don't look at the other party as just a director, but Vice Chancellor Edmund really didn't dare to hold on to him when he talked to him, and he didn't dare to use a commanding tone - because Professor Cook is a long-established academic master, a god-level scholar who won the Turing Award 20 years ago, and has made pioneering contributions to the "NP exhaustion theory" subsystem in the "computational complexity theory".

The Turing Award in the computer industry is on the same level as the Bomb Award in the field of physics and chemistry and the Fields Medal in the field of mathematics.

Professor Cook really had a big temper, and after listening to Vice President Edmund's request, he directly refused: "Gu Cheng? I don't even have an agenda for issues, and I have to go to the Mississauga campus in person? No way! My time is precious. ”

Vice Chancellor Edmund had a big head for a while, but fortunately he caught a glimmer of hope in Professor Cook's words, and hurriedly insisted on asking without giving up: "Eh, don't worry, you ...... Do you mean that there is no specific topic to be accompanied? Then I can ask the other party what is the purpose of this expedition and let them come up with some topics. If it suits your interests, you should go, right?"

Professor Cook has a temper that must be practiced, and when someone seized the loophole in his words and forcibly quibbled, he couldn't deny it, so he could only snort coldly and say, "Is it possible for this kind of pure businessman." ”

"Is it possible, I only know when I ask. Vice Principal Edmund didn't want to do much, so he put down the sentence and hung up the phone.

Then he called the female secretary in the outside office in and ordered: "Go, contact the contact person of YY Network Technology, and ask them to prepare a specific topic of the inspection agenda." ”

"Good principal. The female secretary immediately went about it cleanly.

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Gu Cheng was in a hotel near Pearson Airport in Mississauga when he received Lin Zhiling, who had not completely recovered from jet lag. Because this is Lin Zhiling's alma mater, Gu Cheng asked her to be a guide and public relations.

Although Lin Zhiling's main business in the past two years has been to be the brokerage director of Eslite Audio, her academic literacy is not bad. Treat people and talk very decently, and it is a typical temperamental courtesan, as long as you don't talk about science and engineering, there will be no problem.

She also knew what the occasion was today, and she wore a luxurious and elegant bare-shouldered long skirt, the kind that did not open the placket, and wrapped her career line tightly.

"It's beautiful. Even Gu Cheng, who read countless women, had to praise from the bottom of his heart.

"Ah Cheng, this is a confirmation letter just sent to us by the secretary of the school office at noon, and I hope we can clarify the agenda of the next few days. Do you think how to solve it?" As soon as Lin Zhiling got into the car, he took out a small note from Xiao Kun's bag, and wrote down some things densely.

"Is it a matter of whether Professor Stephen Cook can be invited to talk to us in person?

He was not a very good scholar of history, and he did not like the source school of scholarship. He is a pure pragmatist, and he only knows that he has the mentality of "if I want to eat meat, I just need to find the meat factory, and I don't care who the pig herdsman is".

So, he didn't know Stephen Cook at all.

"Is there a wireless network here?" Gu Cheng asked Lin Zhiling as he took out his notebook from the back seat.

"Yes, I'll set it up for you. Lin Zhiling took out a USB wireless network card, Canada's mobile network is developing rapidly, and there are already operators doing 2.5G mobile services in 03.

After connecting to the wireless network in the car, Gu Cheng Baidu Oh didn't Google Professor Stephen Cook's information.

After looking at it for a while, he was shocked.

Originally, this trip to the University of Toronto, especially only to the Mississauga campus, was to poach Professor Jeff Hinton. Because Jeff Hinton invented "deep learning algorithms" and "convolutional neural networks", which ushered in the era of artificial intelligence for more than 30 years.

Although countless new algorithms and patterns have since been stacked onto the artificial intelligence tree, Jeff Hinton has shown the way for the initial enforceability of humans.

According to Lin Zhiling's information, Jeff Hinton is still on the Mississauga campus and is a cross-circle ticket-level professor. This guy was born in psychology back then, and he became a monk halfway through to a computer, but he used his cross-circle comprehensive talent to kill a unique way.

Historically, Jeff Hinton was not taken seriously by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Projects (CIFAR) until the end of 2004, and a portion of the foundation was allocated to support his project, which was later raised to $1 million a year. It wasn't until the end of 2006 that Hinton met his nobleman -- his phased results were noticed by Google, and then tens of millions of dollars were smashed at once, and the speed of research immediately increased by leaps and bounds. ANOTHER OF HIS AIDES, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, WAS POACHED BY MR. ZUCKERBERG'S FACEBOOK. This pattern laid the foundation for the first-mover advantage of Google and FB in the field of artificial intelligence.

Because of Jeff Hinton's great contribution to artificial intelligence, these details are recorded in the history books, so Gu Cheng, a traveler, knows it.

Gu Cheng always thought that the history he knew was the whole of history.

However, after reading the information sent by the Toronto school today, Gu Cheng found out that the reason why the Toronto Department was able to cultivate a big bull like Jeff Hinton was also inevitable, especially in the basic academic soil and atmosphere, and the accumulation was very good.

For example, Professor Stephen Cook, who is currently mentioned on the note in Lin Zhiling's hand, belongs to the character who "did not open a meat factory, but at least raised a group of pigs". His contributions to the "Computational Complexity Theory" and the "NP Exhaustion Theory" led to the controversy in the field of artificial intelligence in Toronto.

"Sister Zhiling, I said that you wrote, so I will reply to the topic that we are going to discuss in this investigation: the derivation of NP integrity models including neural network algorithms, genetic algorithms and other models......"

Gu Cheng carefully said something that seemed like a book from heaven in Lin Zhiling's eyes, and Lin Zhiling couldn't believe it after typing, so he asked Gu Cheng to read it in person before replying to the email.

After a while, the University of Toronto Office received the information, and then the Vice Chancellor Edmund immediately transferred it to Professor Stephen Cook.

"Does this guy still understand these issues?" Professor Cook was stunned, his hair trembling on his gray head, which was nearly seventy years old.