After completing the preliminary preparations for the base, Duke returned to the campus in the United States.

The Department of Materials Engineering approved Duke's application, and in order to strengthen its persuasive application for this Ph.D. qualification, Duke provided a report on the research process of the new display composite material, of course, in a simplified version that concealed key technical parameters.

Andrew, a well-known professor of materials science, has carefully studied the process report of Duke's research on new composite display materials, and he is very impressed by Duke's talent in materials science research.

Although this project seems to have been developed together by experts from the Duke American laboratory, what kind of person is Andrew, although these doctors of materials science are all high-achieving students from prestigious universities, especially Andrew, who has some achievements, knows and is very familiar with their research and development routines.

In the middle of the development of this material, there were several key ideas that were very imaginative, and according to the report, these were all ideas that everyone brainstormed together, although the report did not record who came up with these ideas first, Andrew was sensitive to the presence of Duke in these key meetings.

In addition, Duke almost did not appear in the regular R&D meeting, with Andrew's rigorous professional vision, it is naturally easy to see this strangeness, although there is no evidence that this student has accumulated in materials science research before, but from the talent shown, Duke should be a good seedling, although Duke was still a doctor of computer science before.

For the discovery of this new composite display material, Professor Andrew's evaluation is also very high, believing that this will be an upgraded technological innovation in the display industry, in other words, the achievement of this subject is already a world-class level, such potential students are of course Andrew is looking forward to very much.

What's more, during the interview, Andrew found that Duke's theoretical knowledge in basic materials science is very comprehensive and solid, which is not inferior to the level of any hard-working master's degree in materials science.

Of course, it took several days for Duke to scan all the basic materials science tutorials into Kerry's knowledge base, and despite the same efforts in mechanical engineering, the professor of mechanical engineering rejected Duke's application.

This is a very practical science, and Duke's application report shows no achievements in engineering practice at all, and the professor of mechanical engineering believes that a person with no relevant engineering practice background has no future, even if he has solid theoretical knowledge.

Mechanical engineering is one of MIT's ace disciplines, and the application process has always been very demanding, and even if Duke is the pride of the school's famous computer science department, the professors will not be moved.

Duke's attempt to gain experience in MIT's top-notch power mechanical design fell through for the time being.

Fortunately, he now has the opportunity to haunt the materials science laboratory and the nuclear physics laboratory, which is also very fulfilling, and the new knowledge obtained from the various research first-hand reports that can be consulted in the laboratory is obviously more cutting-edge and closer to practice than the school library.

As a result, Duke has gained a lot of new experience in materials research after spending a week in the materials science lab, which has enriched Kerry's knowledge base, and he has been able to communicate with those experts in the theoretical testing of the process design of new display materials, and improve several parts of the new process that waste energy.

Regardless of the fact that the energy consumption level has only been reduced by a few percentage points, considering that the energy consumption of this project will be as high as that of steelmaking after the completion of the project in the future, the savings in electricity costs by these few percentage points are very considerable.

Time flies especially fast on busy days, and before you know it, it's March.

"Duke, congratulations on your election as this year's Turing Award winner! I'm so proud of you! The slightly excited voice of Professor Pol, a computer instructor, came from the phone, which made Duke, who was busy in the laboratory, feel very sudden and moved.

After a moment's pause, Duke reacted, "Thank you!" Duke paused, "This is your pride, too!" Professor, I would not be where I am today without you, thank you so much for all your efforts for me. ”

Duke thanked him sincerely. Indeed, although Duke's achievements in computer science are very outstanding, especially in the breakthrough research in speech recognition, it does have a world-class level, and it is understandable that he was selected for the Turing Award from the perspective of the significant impact of scientific research achievements, but this award is most of the time in the pocket of Europeans and Americans, especially Americans, and rarely falls aside except for the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

The Turing Award can be awarded to a student from China this time, which is indeed unexpected by many people. In the eyes of most Americans, China, despite having the world's second-largest GDP for more than a year, is still an insignificant follower in terms of scientific and technological research.

Therefore, the Turing Award selection committee had a fierce debate for this, on the one hand, because Duke is not qualified enough, on the other hand, it is difficult to eliminate the prejudice formed over the years, if it were not for Professor Pol's best to fight for Duke, and show Duke's achievements in speech recognition and artificial intelligence at the conference, these judges were dumbfounded.

Although the other candidates have scientific research achievements similar to Duke's level, they are basically concentrated in a subdivided field, and ordinary people rarely have Duke's strong scientific research ability, which can blossom and bear fruit in multiple fields at the same time.

After all, the experts of the selection committee are influential experts and scholars from various well-known universities and research institutions, and are not politicians.

Although Duke is not very clear about these fierce behind-the-scenes battles, Duke knows that this year's Turing Award is very fiercely contested, and the results of the Turing Award in previous years were basically decided a few days in advance, but this year it was almost almost the award day, and Professor Pol informed himself, which shows the fierce competition and the difficulty of the selection committee's decision-making.

Except for Professor Pol, he has no connections in this selection committee, and if it weren't for Professor Pol's fight for himself, Duke believes that he would never have won this heavy award.

It was a big surprise for Duke. With this award, he has been promoted to the rank of a world-class top scientist from today.

After the list of Turing Award winners was announced, for a while, congratulatory messages from all parties were clouded, this is the first Turing Award won by a Chinese authentic Chinese, and it is also one of the few world-class awards in the scientific and technological community.

Duke's hometown provincial, municipal, and county governments responded quickly and immediately sent congratulatory messages, and even the State Council press conference specifically mentioned this award that made Chinese people look long.

As for the schools at all levels where Duke has studied, they have reacted strongly, promoting Duke's award as the school's most outstanding achievement.