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To the northwest of Boston, across the Charles River, is the famous city of Cambridge.

The history of Cambridge can be traced back to 1630, when the English Puritans who first settled in the Boston area founded the "Newtown Town". In 1636, Harvard College, the predecessor of Harvard University and the first institution of higher education in North America, was founded here. It was hoped that the town would become a university town like Cambridge, England, and in 1638 the town was renamed "Cambridge". The town was elevated to the city of Cambridge in 1846.

Orlando quickly got Lin Hong's library card ready.

Two days later, Lin Hong finished reading all the books in his hand, and took advantage of the weekend to ride Arthur's bicycle alone, through downtown Boston, across the Harvard Bridge, to the world-famous city of Cambridge.

In the tiny city of Cambridge, there are two world-class universities, ranked first and second in the world: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. As a result, the city of Cambridge has become one of the world's most exemplary models of higher education and research, and its name has become a popular destination for students from all over the world.

After a few dozen minutes of travel, Lin Hong came to the MIT campus.

At first, Lin Hong was very strange, why he hadn't seen the school gate of MIT, and got out of the car to find someone to ask, only to know that he had gone deep into the campus at the moment, and not far away was the main building of the college.

It turns out that all universities in the United States are the same, there are no gates and walls, their universities are integrated with society, there is no difference between other buildings, buses, sightseeing cars, taxis are at will, and tourists and visitors can come and go at will.

I unknowingly arrived at the holy land of hackers, MIT!

Ever since he read the book "Hacker", Lin Hong has always been interested in MIT, and although MIT is not far from Boston, he has never found time to come over.

He had fantasized many times about what he would encounter and what kind of mood he would be in when he came to this holy place of hackers. Unexpectedly, I had entered the MIT campus without realizing it.

A university without walls, what kind of considerations is this based on?

Lin Hong thoughtfully looked at the MIT students around him with confident smiles on their faces, and he already had a vague answer in his heart. Templar

Lin Hong didn't rush directly to the library, but rode his bicycle through the world's most prestigious science and engineering university, wanting to see for himself what the New York Times described as "the most prestigious school in the United States."

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is recognized as the world's best polytechnic university, and its reputation has become a temple of science for students from all over the world. MIT's natural and engineering sciences are world-renowned, as are management, economics, philosophy, political science, and linguistics.

In addition, MIT's research and development of high-tech weapons, the United States' top secret Lincoln Laboratory, the world's leading computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory, the world's cutting-edge media laboratory, and the training of many of the world's top CEOs, the Sloan School of Management are also well-known and valuable assets.

Before this, Lin Hong had already consulted relevant materials and had a certain understanding of the history of MIT.

At the beginning, he was also very strange why Chinese used to call Massachusetts "Massachusetts", and later checked the relevant information to know that the original name was derived from the translation of the Qing Dynasty, and the early Chinese translated the English "state" as "province", and directly referred to Massachusetts as "Massachusetts", which is still used to being called so by the overseas Chinese community.

Dome Building, Student Residence, Newton Building, Laboratory Building, Stadium, Museum, Darwin Building......

Lin Hong took a quick look at the main building inside the MIT, but he couldn't find the location of the library, and finally stopped in front of the student dormitory next to the large dome building, and he saw a familiar thing at the entrance of the student dormitory - a CDAD device.

After thinking for a while, Lin Hong took out his calculator from his pocket, then opened the SMS program and sent a message to his left hand.

Stone: Do you have time now, I'm in front of the MIT10 student dormitory.

The left hand is a student of MIT, but they have never met, and since Lin Hong is here, he thinks that if he has the opportunity, he might as well meet him.

Meet more people and be able to benefit yourself. This is what Lin Hong has learned from his previous experiences.

This detail can also be seen that his personality is slowly changing, if before, he would not have done this at all, his most repulsive thing is to meet strangers, and he is not even willing to call. Templar

Originally, Lin Hong just tried to send a message to ask, if the other party didn't receive it at the moment, or was busy with other things, he went to the library by himself.

Unexpectedly, only ten seconds later, the left hand replied.

Left hand: Wait for me in a moment, I'll be there shortly.

After a while, Lin Hong heard someone calling his English name behind him: "stone? ”

Lin Hong turned his head and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, because he found that the other party turned out to be a young Asian American.

"You're left-handed?" Lin Hong tried to ask in Chinese.

"Yes, I am the left hand." The other party laughed, "I didn't expect you to be Chinese too, haha!" What a surprise! ”

"I was also a little surprised." Lin Hong never thought that the SAM members he had been chatting with were also Chinese like himself.

Then, the left hand introduced himself, his name is Xie Jinhui, he is from Taiwan, and he is currently in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They are all members of the SAM Association, plus they are both Chinese, and the distance between them has been instantly pulled to the closest, as if they have not seen each other for a long time.

Then, he left his hand to deposit Lin Hong's bicycle with a friend, and then took him to visit a few more classic attractions again.

Zuoshou has been living here for more than a year, and he already knows all the buildings and allusions here, he introduced Lin Hong as he walked, and he admired this place a lot, and strongly recommended that Lin Hong come here to study after graduating from high school. Although there are countless people who want to come here to study every year, the left hand feels that Lin Hong has the strength to stand out.

Lin Hong smiled at this, in his mind, studying in college still seemed to be a very distant thing, and he didn't plan to study there for the time being.

The left hand told Lin Hong that the reason why a university is a university is because there are masters in the university.

At MIT, perhaps a very inconspicuous old man is a winner of a world science prize.

As soon as the left hand said this, he really ran into a person, Ivan Suzelan, the winner of the 1988 Turing Award, for his outstanding contributions to computer graphics. The Turing Award is the Nobel Prize in the field of computing.

The left hand is very familiar with the celebrities of MIT, and seems to have done a special understanding of this area.

The left hand led Lin Hong to the door of the library.

"Stone, I still have some personal matters later, so I can't continue to accompany you." Left hand said apologetically.

"It's fine. You go get busy first, I'm mainly here to check the information in the MIT library today. ”

"What time are you going back in the afternoon?"

"About four or five o'clock."

"In this way, I won't have anything to do then, let's have a meal together in the afternoon, and then I will call two other students, who are also Chinese students, how about it?"

"Alright then, I'll use this to contact you then." Lin Hong raised the calculator in Yang's hand.

"Haha, okay. With this, it's really convenient. Left Hand smiled, "Our chapter has also installed a CDAD device in the library's reading room, so you can just send me a message when the time comes." ”

The head of the MIT branch is the left hand, and the branches of the SAM Association have been established all over the country, and the MIT branch is the best and fastest developing.

While the two of them were talking, a middle-aged man with long hair and a long beard walked past them and entered the library.

His clothes were a strange robe, with a large word "freedom" written in red paint on the front and "software" written in blue on the back, and he was barefoot without shoes on his feet, and he wore a certain red hat diagonally on his head, which was very unique.

Lin Hong noticed that after seeing this person, many students pointed at him and whispered about it.

"Who's that guy?" Lin Hong looked at the other party's back and said curiously.

"He, Richard Stallman, is also a celebrity in our school, originally a researcher at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and later founded the 'Free Software Foundation' to actively promote free and open source software, and has a lot of fans in the school. But in my opinion, he is also a weirdo, as long as it is commercial software and hardware, he is against it. He often tells others, 'The freedom of software is related to the freedom of mankind,' and calls on everyone to oppose commercial software. Many people think that he is a paranoid, a madman. ”

The left hand left first because there was something else to do.

The MIT library was built in 1916 and is old-fashioned, but the interior of the library is huge. The library complex consists of five main libraries and several affiliated branches, with a collection of 18 million books and 19,000 magazines. In addition, there are microfilms, maps, musical scores, and other materials. The library has a total staff of 200 people.

Lin Hong can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, from the original Grandpa Xu's private library, to the library of Xicheng District in Beijing, and then to the library of the Latin School. And now he is standing in the library of the most prestigious university in the world, and his heart is naturally full of emotion.

Due to the relatively large library, Lin Hong had already looked at the floor plan of the entire library in advance, and inquired about the area where the computer books were located, and went straight to the goal.

Computers originated from MIT, so the computer is like nine astronomical network programming", "Internet interconnection with TCP/IP", "The art of computer programming", "In-depth understanding of computer systems", ......

Lin Hong looked at it all the way, he was simply dazzled, and he wanted to read every book.

As Orlando says, it's a real treasure trove, with countless precious treasures waiting to be discovered. These treasures are endless, and can be obtained by everyone as long as you want to.

Lin Hong finally stopped in the middle of a bookshelf, because he found his goal this time - "Posix Standard", a full four thumb-thick tomes.

Lin Hong happily pulled out all four books, revealing a huge hole in the shelf, just in time to see the opposite side of the shelf.

Lin Hong saw that there was a middle-aged man with long hair and a long beard on the opposite side at the moment.

The other party smiled at Lin Hong, and then asked, "Young man, are you interested in the POSIX standard?" ”

"Yes, I'm here today to borrow this set of books." Lin Hong was slightly stunned for a moment, and then nodded.

The reason why he was a little stunned at first was because this person was the strange man he had just seen at the door.