In the blink of an eye, at the beginning of November, Duke received the GRE score, unexpectedly did not get a full score, the essay was originally a full score of 6, Duke only scored 5 points, obviously, the teacher who judged the paper thought that a normal candidate could not write such an excellent essay in such a short period of time, especially the Western allusions cited, it was as seamless as reciting it in advance, in view of the "excellent performance" of Chinese candidates in preparing for the exam, Duke's perfect essay, no flaw is the biggest flaw. This logic is very fucked up, but it is an indisputable fact of the GRE test, when it comes to the test, there are very few students in the world who can be compared with the Chinese students who have been in the examination room for a long time, and perhaps only the dwarves of the island countries in the same East Asian circle and the sticks on the peninsula can barely compete.

Duke doesn't care about the essay score that was accidentally lost, and it is rare to apply for verification, if you look at his essay alone, although it is very likely to regain this score, this score has exceeded the entry score of MIT in previous years, and this is enough. For a school like MIT, the GRE score is not a panacea, although there is no GRE score is also impossible, for Duke, as long as it can meet its entry threshold, after all, it is mainly necessary to rely on the groundbreaking speech recognition technology improvement professional paper to impress a famous professor of MIT, as long as you convince the future boss, it is the key to enter MIT.

It's just that Duke hasn't received a reply email from JACM for a long time, which makes him feel a little uneasy. Then I still want to rely on this paper to pry open the door of MIT, doesn't it seem a little unreliable now?

On this day, Duke opened his online mailbox as usual, and suddenly found a letter in English from a stranger:

"Dear Mr. Duke,

Hello, I'm Professor Smith of Stanford University, as a JACM guest reviewer, I am very happy to see the breakthrough technical paper in the field of speech recognition, for the new speech recognition technology principle you proposed, I personally think it has a strong feasibility and good practical prospects, I still have a few questions: First, have you developed a prototype application based on this principle? Second, about semantic intelligence context recognition ......"

"Finally, I would like to forgive my presumptuousness, but I would like to ask if you would be interested in going to Stanford University to conduct more in-depth research on speech recognition? As Director of the Stanford Speech Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Lab, I am very much looking forward to Mr. Duke's arrival. ”

After reading the email from Professor Smith that came out of the mailbox, Duke couldn't help but feel a burst of surprise in his heart, and he was relieved that the manuscript he had submitted had not moved for so long, and Duke had lost a little confidence, but now it seemed that he was too anxious. Duke read the letter again, saw the last paragraph of the email, and suddenly remembered that he had met an international scammer, right?

Thinking about all kinds of liars in China, the more Duke thought about it, the more suspicious he felt, how could a professor from a famous university take the initiative to invite someone to visit the research? Could this be a liar pretending to be a professor to deceive himself, thinking of this possibility, Duke began to look up Professor Smith on the Internet based on the information in Professor Smith's email.

Stanford University really has such a tenured professor as Smith, and then searched for Smith's achievements, Duke found that this Smith is still a special god-level figure, especially in speech recognition and artificial intelligence, basically in recent years, there have been keynote speeches at various international academic conferences, and there are quite a lot of papers and monographs published, many of which are still widely cited, and even a few of the speech recognition papers in his original collection are the works of Professor Smith, It's just that I didn't look closely at the time, and I threw it all to Kerry, and now looking back, this Professor Smith turned out to be a grandmaster-level big man.

After verifying the ins and outs of Professor Smith, Duke breathed a sigh of relief, since there was no problem with this professor, then this email looked reliable. Although he didn't know how to get into the blue eye of this Professor Smith, this invitation still made Duke feel excited.

You must know that Stanford University is recognized as one of the most outstanding universities in the world like MIT, and it is ranked among the top several universities in the United States all year round, and it can be said that it has its own merits, especially in the modern high-tech industry, Stanford has a strong influence, and some well-known international IT industry giants, such as Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems (although it has been acquired by Oracle), nVIDIA, Yahoo, Cisco, The founders of companies like Silicon Valley Graphics and Google are from Stanford. It can be said that more than half of the great fame of Silicon Valley in the United States is created by Stanford.

If Duke's ambition is to pursue a career in the IT industry, Stanford is the obvious choice. What's more, there are now grandmaster-level professors who have taken the initiative to invite olive branches, opening the door to Stanford for Duke.

Duke couldn't help but be a little moved, he further studied the differences between Stanford and MIT, especially in the several majors he plans to get involved in in-depth research in the future, computer science, mechanical engineering, communication engineering and other two schools are almost the same, basically one of the best, but Stanford's nuclear engineering is too poor. Seeing this, Duke couldn't help but sigh, what a pity, thinking that this major was his future focus, Duke had to regretfully put Stanford as an alternate.

Since the identity of Smith is basically determined in his heart, Duke on the technical problems in his letter, complicated to Kerry, simple himself directly replied, quickly completed the reply, and together with the Sala input method packaged and sent over, although Sala is currently mainly to recognize Chinese, for the English version, before the current profit model has not been well verified, Duke does not want to launch now. If Professor Smith receives the program, he will find the right person to try it out.

For the sake of confidentiality, in the SDK provided by Duke, there is no open English recognition interface, nor does it release the English speech semantic data feature database. was involved in such a theft case by Coolry, which made Duke feel uneasy. Since this technology is so valuable, Duke thinks it is safer to be conservative. Anyway, what he's putting out now is enough to keep SAL busy for a year or two.

Of course, at the end of the reply, Duke thanked Professor Smith very much for the invitation and said that he would consider this issue very carefully. Of course, if Duke's application to MIT is not approved, this deliberate consideration will quickly turn into a very happy one.

PS: There is a second shift around eleven o'clock, Xiaofei is working hard to code words, by the way, begging for collections, asking for black tickets