In the morning, Zhao Weidong and Ji Lingjun sat in the reception room, and asked Alice to call her father up, and soon Abt arrived, and after Abt sat down, Zhao Weidong said:

"Mr. Abtt, I have come to you today for a few things to explain: The first thing is that I plan to set up a for-profit military advisory organization, hire appealing retired US generals to preside over this organization, hire retired US generals and officers to form an advisory group, recruit retired personnel of the navy, army, and air force of the United States and other countries in the world to form international mercenaries, and accept military tasks entrusted by the US Government, governments around the world, and some private institutions in the world."

"Chairman, how did you come up with the idea of forming a military advisory body, is there any need for us?"

"Mr. Abt, this is very necessary, now with the development and growth of our company, it will inevitably attract more and more people's attention, we are now in addition to the president has established a relationship with other social relations are very weak, and in the United States there are many various underworld forces, we are now a piece of fat, if someone wants to bite us, we do not have the slightest power to resist, for this we must have the power of self-preservation, the establishment of a private military agency registered with the federal government, While accepting military missions from the government and various countries, institutions and individuals for a fee, we protect our own enterprises. ”

"Chairman, you think too thoughtfully, you didn't say that I didn't take these aspects into account, I always think that our United States is a legal society, just rely on the government, I didn't think of some complicated situations in the United States, you are not wrong, we should still be prepared for danger in times of peace, take precautions, we really need to set up a private military organization, and I will arrange personnel to handle the relevant matters of the formation when I go back."

"The second thing is about the formation of computer professional companies, because the future world is the world of computers, computer applications will involve all aspects of human science and technology and life, and are industries that have a huge impact on the future development of the world economy, so we must make great efforts to acquire computer companies and institutions, and make great efforts to recruit computer experts, IBM is a long-term leader in the computer industry, and its achievements in large/small computers and portable computers are the most eye-catching. Therefore, we must absorb a large number of IBM shares without causing abnormal market fluctuations, and we can also acquire the shares of minority shareholders to become major shareholders and strive to become controlling shareholders. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered one thing, he had heard such a statement, an authoritative person in the United States commented that if the leaders of Xerox in the 70s of the last century attached great importance to the commercialization and industrialization of the results of the Palo Alto Research Center, the history of computers would be rewritten: the personal computer of the IBMPC model would not account for more than 90% of the market; Apple and Microsoft won't exist; Xerox will become a supergiant in the computer industry in the nineties of the last century, and its hegemony will not be inferior to that of IBM, the "blue giant" in the sixties and seventies of the last century.

The Palo Alto Research Center is complete without mentioning Bob Taylor, born in 1903 and graduated from the University of Texas in 1932 in psychoacoustics. The honorary title is the father of the Internet. From 1965 to 1969, he served as Chief of the Information Processing Technology Division of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

From 1970 to 1977, he was the founder and assistant director of the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. From 1977 to 1983, he was the head of the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. From 1983 to 1996, he was the founder and director of the DEC System Research Center.

"There is nothing that cannot be imagined, and nothing that cannot be done." People use this phrase to praise the magic of imagination. Today, with the rapid development of the information industry, "network myths" have come and gone, making those successful businessmen and technology leaders the focus of everyone's attention, but often ignoring some spiritual leaders and project organizers who dared to come up with whimsical ideas at the beginning.

Bob Taylor, who served as director of the Information Processing Technology Division at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, is one such person. In a sense, he was the originator of the Internet, and his charm lies in his ability to bring together talented scientists with very different personalities to put interesting and useful ideas into practice and produce promising results.

In later generations, the information industry was driven by huge commercial interests and has become a little irrational, looking back at the original intention of the technology pioneers, Zhao Weidong can't help but have some regrets in admiration.

Zhao Weidong knows very well that whether it is the history of the Internet or personal computers, Bob Taylor can firmly occupy a seat, and this position is very high.

In 1965, he became Chief of the Information Processing Technology Branch of the Advanced Research Programmes Agency.

During his tenure, he was the first to develop the idea of a new type of computer network experiment and raised funds to start the experiment. He recruited Larry Roberts to the Palo Alto Research Center to be in charge of the project, which is how the Internet came in.

In 1970, Taylor was responsible for founding the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, which brought together top researchers to form a computer research paradise, incubating a variety of groundbreaking personal computer and network technologies, which prepared the technology for the explosion of the computer industry in the late 70s.

Zhao Weidong knew that Taylor was responsible for founding the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and many research results were carried out, so that computer amateurs such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates could directly use the weapons they had prepared, go into battle shirtless, detonate the personal computer revolution, and make themselves prosperous.

He knew that Taylor was not a computer expert and did not participate in research. He recruited a large number of outstanding people for the Palo Alto Research Center, and in the early seventies, Elek, who was working at the Palo Alto Research Center and later won the Turing Award in 2003, said that "58 of the world's top 100 computer researchers work at the Palo Alto Research Center."

However, the serious problem was the indifference of Xerox headquarters to the revolutionary achievements of the Palo Alto Research Center, coupled with Taylor's resignation, and the rapid decline of the Palo Alto Research Center in the 80s, the inventor was very sad that his work could not be industrialized, and he continued:

"There is a very good opportunity at the moment, Mr. Abt, that the seventies were a paradise for computer researchers, and this is not the case with Bob, the leader of the Palo Alto Research Center? Taylor has a lot to do with it.

Taylor founded the computer science laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center in 1970, where he majored in psychology and minored in mathematics while in college.

Taylor was not a computer scientist and did not participate in research, but he recruited a large number of outstanding computer talents for the Palo Alto Research Center, and at that time, Taylor knew that he could not make big things in the field of computers.

In this way, he focused all his energy on making the best use of his talents, he provided a relaxed, free, and harmonious research environment, and he chaired a group of scientists to discuss every week, and once a spark of innovation was found, Taylor immediately decided on the general direction of research and helped to deal with all the chores.

For example, the research has yielded fruitful results in determining the budget, requesting funds, and coordinating the cooperation of various parties. The problem, however, was that Xerox headquarters was indifferent to the revolutionary work of the Palo Alto Research Center, and the inventors were saddened that their work could not be industrialized.

Under these favorable conditions, we can acquire the computer science laboratory of the Palo Alto Research Center and form our own computer manufacturing company. Mr. Abt, are you going to draw up a plan for the acquisition and invite Bob? Taylor came to the bank to discuss with us the issue of computer industrialization. ”

"Chairman, will computers really play such an important role in the future world?"

"Mr. Abter, based on the capabilities of the computer, I predict that the application should have the following aspects:

1. Scientific computing. Current computers are mainly used for scientific computing. In the future, scientific computing will continue to be an important area of computer applications. Such as high-energy physics, engineering design, earthquake prediction, meteorological forecasting, aerospace technology, etc. Due to the high speed and accuracy of computing and the ability of logical judgment, new disciplines such as computational mechanics, computational physics, computational chemistry, and biological cybernetics have emerged.

2. Process prosecution. The computer is used to automatically detect certain signals in the industrial production process, and the detected data is stored in the computer, and then the data are processed according to the need, such a system is called a computer detection system. In particular, the intelligent instrumentation composed of the introduction of computer technology has pushed industrial automation to a higher level.

3. Information management. Information management is currently one of the most widely used areas of computers. Use computers to process, manage and operate any form of data, such as enterprise management, material management, report statistics, account calculation, information and intelligence retrieval, etc.

Fourth, auxiliary systems. 1. Computer-aided design, manufacturing and testing (CAD/CAM/CAT). 2. Use computer-aided engineering design, product manufacturing, and performance testing. 3. Economic management: national economic management, company and enterprise economic information management, planning and planning, analysis and statistics, forecasting, decision-making; Material, financial, labor, personnel and other management. 4. Information retrieval: automatic retrieval of information such as library materials, historical archives, scientific and technological resources, and environment; Establishment of various information systems. 5. Automatic control: comprehensive automation of industrial production process, optimal control of process process, weapon control, communication control, traffic signal control. 6. Pattern recognition: The computer is used to identify and classify a set of events or processes, which can be specific objects such as words, sounds, images, etc., or abstract objects such as state and degree.

5. Artificial intelligence. Develop some application systems with certain human intelligence, and use computers to simulate human thinking judgment, reasoning and other intelligent activities, so that computers have the functions of self-learning adaptation and logical reasoning, such as computer reasoning, intelligent learning systems, expert systems, robots, etc., to help people learn and complete certain reasoning work. ”

"Chairman, can computers really be used in so many places in the future? That is, all walks of life, all enterprises are inseparable, if this is the case, it is a great industry, it is indeed necessary to lay out as soon as possible, I will immediately arrange to invite Bob? Mr. Taylor comes here. ”

"Okay, you arrange someone to make a plan first, and at the same time invite people to come over to communicate, and other work is postponed, you can arrange it."

"Okay, chairman, I'll go first."