Chapter 0095: President Taylor

Today everyone decided to go back to the bank's own chairman's living area for dinner, and the group left Central Park to go home, although the amount of exercise today is indeed not small, it is normal for the two girls to be very tired, looking at them not tired at all, it seems that the credit of practicing Xiao Zhou Tiangong, of course, the most important thing is that they have already played the two veins of Ren and Du, and the strength of physical strength and energy is not what ordinary people can imagine.

Although everyone didn't feel tired, but the day of non-stop walking in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, still consumed a lot of physical strength, sweating a lot, after returning to the 95th floor of the bank building, Zhao Weidong proposed to go swimming first, dinner can be a little later, both of them agreed.

After everyone swam happily, they had a comfortable dinner at home, and the three of them were tired of being together at night, and Sulingjun knew very well that Alice had become her brother's woman last night because of her initiative.

Although she also has a little sour feeling in her heart, she also thinks that only her younger brother deserves to have this kind of super beautiful beauty, and her younger brother also has the ability to give her woman the greatest happiness, she longs for happiness, she has already obtained happiness that ordinary people can't get, and she has to find ways to make him more happy.

In fact, Alice is also very clear about the sister of Suzukun now, when she saw her yesterday, Alice clearly felt the satisfaction and happiness that was about to overflow in her eyes, at first Alice couldn't figure out what could make a woman feel so satisfied and happy,

She only understood after being with the chairman yesterday, because she herself has such an unforgettable satisfaction and happiness, it is obvious that Ling Jun is also the chairman's woman, only such a man can give women such extreme satisfaction and happiness, Alice knows that she can never do without the chairman in her life.

They spent all night in the private room of karaoke, singing and dancing, Zhao Weidong accompanied Ling Jun to dance, and then danced with Alice, Ling Jun and Alice were all around Zhao Weidong.

The next afternoon, Mr. Abt took Bob with him? Mr. Taylor came to the chairman's reception room, and Zhao Weidong knew very well that Bob? Mr. Taylor's upbringing, whose father was a pastor, grew up moving from Methodist church in Texas to church and never stayed in one place for long.

At the age of 16, he went to college in Dallas with the intention of becoming a pastor, but instead of joining the ministry, he joined the U.S. Navy instead. During the Korean War, he was in a reserve unit that was drafted to fight. But he still did not go to the battlefield and has been stationed at the Dallas Naval Air Base. After the war, Taylor went to the University of Texas, but he didn't know what to choose.

He graduated in 1959 with a degree in psychology and a minor in mathematics. He then went on to study for a master's degree in psychoacoustics.

Later, many people in this industry moved to the computer field, and Taylor was among them. "When I was in graduate school, I didn't have a computer science major." Taylor entered the aviation industry after graduating, joining the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1961 as a program administrator in the Advanced Research Technology Division in Washington, D.C.

In 1963, he met his idol in the psychoacoustic community, Rick Reed, who was busy pulling the computer science community under the command of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

At the beginning of 1965, Rick Reed stepped out of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the front foot, and Taylor followed in on the back foot, first serving as a deputy to the second director of the Information Processing Technology Division, and soon occupied that position himself.

Taylor brought Roberts into the Information Processing Technology Division and put him in charge of the network. When everything was in order, Taylor left the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1969 and relinquished his position to Roberts.

He spent a year at the University of Utah, and soon Xerox came to his door.

In 1969, the president of Xerox planned to create an "information architect" for the future of the company, focusing on computer technology research in case the company's main business - photocopiers and printers - was affected, which is the origin of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Initially, the president put Parker in charge of this task, and Parker's first task was to bring Taylor in and let Taylor form Palo Alto.

Taylor's mission was to find the best engineers, hackers, and computer geniuses from across the country. The Palo Alto Research Center, located next to the Stanford campus, was flat in the '70s, and by the end of the '70s, buildings had risen above the Hewlett-Packard building.

If there is a researcher's paradise in the world, it must be Palo Alto.

From physicists in laser labs, to engineering technicians for microchips, to computer language designers, AI programmers, cognitive physiologists, video designers, sound engineers, machinists, and more, an ideal technology kingdom is formed.

Most researchers are ad hoc and come and go freely, but innovation itself has become a game that they can't break free from.

By 1971, Taylor had recruited 50~60 of the best minds in the field to the computer science lab in Palo Alto.

With Aaron? "Fifty-eight of the world's top 100 computer researchers work in Palo Alto," Kay said. "Bringing together these superhuman-gifted, gifted inventors with very different personalities, there is probably no better person than Taylor to do the job.

In the computer science lab, Taylor created a flat organizational structure where the staff of each computer science lab, from scientists to secretaries, reported directly to Taylor, and there were no middle managers in it.

After Mr. Abt introduced the mutual acquaintance between the two parties, Zhao Weidong welcomed Mr. Taylor very warmly, Zhao Weidong said:

"Mr. Taylor, it's a pleasure to meet you, although you are not a computer scientist or even a researcher, but you are a visionary computer strategist and the best research organizer.

The results of your Palo Alto project include the first personal computer, personal distributed computing, graphical user interfaces, the first commercial mouse, bit-mapped displays, Ethernet, client/server architectures, object-oriented processes, laser printers, and many basic communication protocols on the Internet, information visualization techniques, page description languages, expert systems, voice compression techniques, WYSIWYG technologies, and more.

Your Palo Alto lab has completed the technological innovation of computer hardware and software, as well as networking. This is an invention of epoch-making significance, which will bring tremendous progress to the development of human science and technology. ”

Taylor heard Zhao Weidong speak so highly of his work and knew the research results of the computer science laboratory in Palo Alto, which he presided over, and he knew that the chairman of this investment bank was a boss who knew and valued the development of the computer science industry very well, and it would be nice if he were the boss of his own Xerox.

He has been in charge of the computer science laboratory in Palo Alto for seven or eight years, and he has fully understood the intentions of his boss, who did not set up the computer science laboratory for the purpose of developing the computer science industry, but to master these achievements and prevent the development of the computer science industry, so as to prevent the company's main business - photocopiers and printers from being impacted, which is the purpose of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Taylor was extremely depressed, this is an industry with broad prospects, which can bring about a huge revolution in the computer industry, but his boss does not want to develop this industry and organize research, but to prevent the development of this industry and conduct research, which is also a pain in Taylor's heart.

Hearing Zhao Weidong's words, he had the feeling of finding a soulmate, and he was very proud that the research laboratory he presided over had achieved such great results, and he said happily:

"Chairman, I'm just a good nanny for those genius inventors and creators, building a platform for them to display their inventions and creative talents, and providing them with protection."

"Mr. Taylor, you are too modest, your role is enormous, your vision is very advanced in the formation of this research team, and you are able to bring most of the world's best computer systems experts under your command.

And you're able to organize these elites in a harmonious way, and you're recruiting only the best people, and you're having every candidate interview every researcher in the lab to test their real talent and "the quality of their nervous system" on the other.

You take several projects for newly hired people to involve them in different groups in the computer science lab.

And Mr. Taylor moves people from one group to another from time to time to achieve a full mix, and in doing so, to further expand their abilities and inspirations, to open up ideas, and to inspire them to apply their knowledge from different perspectives, thus breaking down the barriers of directional thinking and sparking them to innovate.

Another channel through which you organize communication is the conference, which is chaired by Mr. Taylor, who has weekly presentations and discussions, Mr. Taylor is like a teacher at the school of training scientists, controlling the overall situation of the meeting, and you are like the central switch of the computer science lab, exchanging all the innovative ideas and work progress, and making the lab work in harmony.

Although the initial ideas came from the scientists under your tutelage, it was ultimately you, Mr. Taylor, who set the general direction of the research. Scientists only have to keep their heads down and once they have a new computer dream, Mr. Taylor helps him with all the chores: setting budgets, negotiating with corporate headquarters, securing funding, and all sorts of coordination.

Mr. Taylor's role is crucial. Because scientists are convinced, Mr. Taylor is their teacher, and they often refer to the computer science lab as 'Taylor's lab.'"

I think you're the soul of the computer science lab in Palo Alto, and I know you're worth more than the experts, and those experts are Maxima, and you're Bole. ”

Hearing Zhao Weidong praise him with Bole was moved, he knew this allusion in ancient China, which was the chairman's very high evaluation of him. He knows his value and role, but all along, his boss and many people think that he is just an excellent managerial talent, and attribute the results of research to experts, completely ignoring his great role in research results, no one finds his value, and he often feels depressed about this.

He never thought that he was the most proud, the most valuable method, the most able to trigger the creative thinking of scientists, the spark of innovation practice, the chairman of the board of directors did not miss the way out, and the specific approach to bring the effect of the analysis is more in place, it can be seen that the chairman is the person who knows his own value is the most, Mr. Taylor was very moved to say:

"Chairman, thank you very much for your high opinion of me, I just do what I have to do."

"Mr. Taylor, I know that you have a large number of research results, because of the boss, so that those valuable research results, can not be industrialized production, so that the research results can not realize its value, I think this is the biggest waste of your personal value, but also the biggest waste of all expert results, I think the future society will be a computer society, computers will enter all aspects of society and family, the computer industry prospects are very good.

Therefore, I plan to invest 500-100 billion US dollars in the computer industry to create the world's largest personal computer, small business and home computer and related system manufacturing enterprises, I think you are the best candidate for corporate president, I wonder what Mr. Taylor thinks? ”

"Chairman, there is an old saying in China: the man dies for the one who knows, the chairman is not only my confidant, but also a very strategic boss, but also a very bold boss, investing such a huge amount of money to develop the computer industry, I am willing to accept the chairman's employment, as the president of the newly established computer industry company, I have the confidence and ability to build the computer industry company into the world's largest computer industry company."

"Good, very good. Mr. Taylor, this computer industry company is please. I would like to put forward some suggestions for your reference, on the one hand, we should pay attention to original innovation, because it will bring a million benefits; On the other hand, we must not despise the continuous and major improvements made on the basis of other people's original achievements, we must rely on this strategy to achieve a monopoly position in the market, and after having abundant financial resources, we will vigorously promote original innovation.

There's a famous saying that "focus innovation on the features that customers are most willing to pay for", and sometimes what appears to be non-fundamental, less expensive improvements can lead to a significant increase in product competitiveness and sales because they are so appealing to the user's liking. Mr. Abter, you and Mr. Taylor have been in contact with Mr. Taylor on specific matters relating to investment banking investments. ”

After explaining to Mr. Abt, Zhao Weidong talked to Mr. Taylor about the development trend and characteristics of the computer minicomputer in the later generations, some technical requirements, and put forward some practices for the low cost of the small computer in the future in view of the current high manufacturing cost, which gave Mr. Taylor a lot of inspiration and guidance to avoid him from taking detours.

And Mr. Taylor is also very advanced professional vision, he immediately found that the chairman of the board of directors said a lot of development concepts, technical requirements and other related content for the development of the computer industry of great value, his future development prediction is still imperfect, uncertain, did not expect the chairman, to give such a professional guidance, he admired the chairman's professionalism and professional level......