Chapter 232: Turing Award
Yang Lin sent Yu Donghua to lead the delegation to the United States, and in addition to discussing future cooperation with the American Internet industry, he also attended the establishment ceremony of F.M.G.A.
F.M.G.A. has been preparing for nearly four months and will be headquartered in Silicon Valley, USA, with future management teams from each of the four parent companies.
Yang Lin has also drawn up a list of staff to be sent to F.M.G.A's U.S. headquarters, who will follow Yu Donghua to the U.S. and work directly at F.M.G.A's headquarters.
On May 26, 2014, the long-awaited Matrix Language Developer Conference was held in Jiangcheng International Convention and Exhibition Center.
As soon as this information was released, it quickly caused a sensation in the industry.
PERHAPS IN THE EYES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE, MATRIX LANGUAGE IS NOT DIFFERENT FROM THOSE GENERAL C/C++ LANGUAGES AND JAVA LANGUAGES, BUT IN THE EYES OF PROFESSIONALS, THE EMERGENCE OF MATRIX LANGUAGES IN THE TECHNICAL FIELD CAN BE REGARDED AS A REVOLUTIONARY EVENT.
In particular, the innovative artificial intelligence algorithms described in it have attracted the attention of mathematicians and top scientists in the field of computing science around the world. All of a sudden, the world's top computer research institutions were boiling, and everyone began to study these algorithms.
In the following days, as the research progressed, scientists and computer engineers from all over the world felt more and more the difficulty and sophistication of the matrix language. I am also more and more amazed by the depth of Matrix Digital's research on artificial intelligence technology.
Although the industry has been boiling over, most people don't have much of a feeling about matrix language.
After all, compared to the MatrixOS operating system, it is intuitively shocking. Matrix languages such purely technical materials give the impression of being relatively ordinary.
The discussion on the Internet is limited to Yang Lin's fans and computer enthusiasts, but to those computer media. Every day, there are several reports about the matrix language, which educate the public about the great significance of this language.
This approach has been very limited in raising public attention, and of course, Yang Lin did not expect the release of the matrix language to spark a heated global public debate.
However, this situation suddenly changed fundamentally with one thing happened.
Just a week after the release of Matrix Language, the latest issue of Time magazine in the United States was launched, and in this issue of the weekly, the cover character is Yang Lin, who has become famous all over the world.
Such treatment has also attracted a lot of attention from the Chinese media. However, with Yang Lin's status now, it doesn't seem to be a big deal to be on the cover of "Time", and everyone will discuss it for a while.
But the problem is the article in this issue!
Although Time magazine put Yang Lin on the cover but did not interview him, they chose an article written by 2014 Turing Award winner Micheal Stonebraker to evaluate the significance of the Mix instruction set and the matrix language. And at the end of this article, Micheal Stonebraker believes that Yang Lin, the inventor of the matrix language, deserves the Turing Award!
Now, the media is frying.
Maybe because before that. Yang Lin's business achievements are too successful, perhaps because Yang Lin is so young, and everyone subconsciously ignores the academic significance contained in the matrix language.
So when MichealStonebraker decided that Yang Lin was eligible for a Turing Award. I was stunned!
You must know that the Turing Award is known as the Nobel Prize in the computer industry, which is the most prestigious and noble award in the computer industry, established by the American Computer Machinery Association (ACM) in 1966. It is specially used to reward those who have made important contributions to the computer industry.
The Turing Award has extremely high requirements for awarding conditions, and the award process is also extremely strict. In general, only one computer scientist is awarded each year, and only two collaborators or scientists who have made significant contributions in the same direction are shared with the award each year.
From 1966 to 2014. There are 62 winners of the 49 Turing Awards, and there is only one Chinese 2000 Turing Award winner, Yao Chi-chi (American), so you can imagine how difficult this award is.
So when Micheal Stonebraker said that Yang Lin was eligible for the Turing Award, everyone was silenced.
Who is MichealStonebraker?
As early as the 70s of the last century, Micheal Stonebraker developed one of the two major relational databases, Ingres (the other is IBM SysstemR), and later developed Sybase and SQLServer, two mainstream databases based on Ingres.
IN THE 80S, HE DEVELOPED THE POSTGRES PROJECT, WHICH AIMED TO ADD SUPPORT FOR MORE COMPLEX DATA TYPES, INCLUDING OBJECTS, GEOGRAPHIC DATA, TIME SERIES DATA, ETC., ON TOP OF RELATIONAL DATABASES. Later, the system evolved into the open source PostgreSQL, and several commercial companies and open source products such as Ilustra (later acquired by Informix) were developed based on PostgreSQL.
In the 90s, he proposed the SharedNothing architecture, which has become one of the cornerstones of today's big data systems.
He is one of the world's leading computer scientists, with influence spanning computer science and industry, inventing almost all concepts used in modern database systems, and founding countless successful database companies, which few living people in the computer science community can match.
Such a figure, when Yang Lin is eligible for the Turing Award, no one will question it, not to mention that he himself is one of the winners of this year's Turing Award.
Therefore, after this news came out, it immediately caused heated discussions around the world.
Especially the Chinese media, you must know that the Nobel plot of the Chinese has a long history, especially the Nobel Prize in the scientific community that no one in China has won so far, so when I heard that Yang Lin may win the "Turing Award" known as the Nobel Prize in the computer industry, it immediately ignited the enthusiasm of the Chinese media and the public. (To be continued......)