The domestic speculation is extremely hot, but Duke, who is in the center of the whirlpool, is very calm, and the American media seems to have collectively lost their voices, and most of the technology media have only published a short message in an inconspicuous place.

"Duke, congratulations on winning the Turing Award, which is one of the very few science and technology awards with world-class influence won by Chinese people! I'm so proud to be a compatriot. Look at the reaction of the Americans to the collective silence, this time to take away the Turing Award, it is really poking in their hearts. Qin Tairan was very excited and said to Duke that this time he came to Boston on behalf of the official to congratulate Duke on his achievements.

"Americans have always prided themselves on being free and open, but in fact, that's what it is, when they talk about this that can take the limelight, they take it out and talk about it, and they really involve their own interests, and they are more indifferent than anyone else." Qin Tairan, who has always paid attention to the movements of the American media, said to Duke with several reports on the technology section of mainstream American newspapers and magazines.

"Whatever, I don't need this to advertise anyway." Duke smiled and thanked Qin Tairan for his congratulations.

The relationship between the two has always been good, and Qin Tairan happened to balance public and private interests this time.

Speaking of which, this time the relevant departments still took into account the gold content and influence of this award, and the level of Qin Tairan sent is a deputy director-level counselor, which is at the same level as District Mayor Zhang in China, and the specifications are not low.

"How about a press conference? This is a good thing, and I think some domestic media and Chinese media will still be interested. Qin Tairan smiled and said to Duke that if Duke was in New York, the Consulate General would hold a press conference for this.

However, this is in Boston, Qin Tairan still pays more attention to Duke's opinions, although holding a press conference can be regarded as a small achievement for him, after all, this work of uniting overseas Chinese elites is done well, and it is a bonus to political achievements.

But Duke really doesn't care much about this now, "Forget it, I'm too busy with a bunch of things right now, and this kind of thing can be avoided." Tonight, let's celebrate when we get together. You can't run away as the guest of honor. Duke declined the suggestion to hold a press conference in Boston for the Chinese, and graciously invited.

In this way, Duke invited Professor Ball, Professor Schwab, and Professor Andrew, plus Susanna, Selena, and Clement, and then Qin Tairan and dozens of experts from Duke's American laboratory to hold a small cocktail party in a five-star hotel to celebrate, and the matter was over.

Just get excited about this, there's no need to take it too seriously. Compared to the results that will be launched in the future, this is just a drizzle, an appetizer.

Looking at the current work of the school, the cooperation project with NASA Duke has been completed, and the results delivered are impeccable, and NASA is very satisfied with this cooperation.

In view of the excellent cooperation effect, NASA offered favorable conditions in the hope of continuing to cooperate with Duke, and threw out tens of millions of dollars a year project, of course, these next work is getting closer and closer to some of NASA's core content, and the degree of secrecy is quite high.

Duke resolutely rejected NASA's invitation to cooperate, and the matter on the side of American schools came to an end, but now there are enough things pressed on him in domestic universities, not to mention this kind of project that contains sensitive information, how far away is Duke hiding now.

However, some projects Duke still can't dodge, for example, for Professor Ball's invitation to the artificial intelligence image recognition project, Duke agreed, which is a cooperation project between Ball and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Security hopes that Professor Ball will eventually be able to develop an intelligent identification system based on this artificial intelligence image recognition technology to conduct computer preliminary identification of people entering and leaving the United States Customs.

Through the computer automatically collects the image of each person in customs clearance, the background automatically compares the high-risk suspect characteristic database, and finds that the abnormality can issue early warning information, and the US Customs side conducts an in-depth investigation of the suspect who triggered the alarm according to these early warning information, in order to find the dangerous suspect as soon as possible.

In view of the frequent international exchanges and the number of customs clearance personnel, the customs department is unable to conduct a thorough inventory of every person who has cleared customs, and through the screening of this technical means, the general population can be greatly excluded and the scope of inspection can be narrowed, so as to better prevent high-risk groups from entering the United States.

Of course, this system runs completely behind the scenes, and the crowd who clears the customs will not feel its existence at all. Therefore, there will be no backlash in execution.

Even the suspects who triggered the alarm and were deeply interrogated did not know why they were treated more solemnly by others, and the reason given by the customs was always random inspection.

Of course, Duke doesn't know the inside story of these applications yet, but he knows that this project is a personal image collected in real time, compared with the image data in the database, and the high similarity can be recognized, just like a person can identify a person similar to a picture based on a picture.

To be honest, this is a very technically difficult project. Because we know that even if the relevant departments of the United States are very powerful, for the high-risk groups that can endanger the security of the United States, in fact, most of the information is not very sufficient, and many can only obtain some simple small ID picture information of the suspect.

With such rudimentary or even outdated information, it is not easy to identify the real suspect, and everyone can see how different this photo of most people is from the real person's image by looking at their ID photos. If you use general image recognition software for recognition, the recognition accuracy is so low that it can be overwhelming.

Today's image recognition technology is okay with identifying business cards or car license plates, and portrait recognition is not possible unless the built-in image data is very similar to the real person.

Strangely, if you use a person to identify it, even if the photo is very different from the real person, most of the time it can still be recognized. In other words, human recognition is more achieved through god-like feelings, and can recognize and judge vague things.

For Duke, this is also a new field of research, which is basically the category of fuzzy recognition technology in terms of classification, that is, the introduction of fuzzy mathematical methods into pattern recognition, the use of fuzzy technology to design machine recognition systems, simulate the recognition process of the human brain, and then improve the ability of computers in image recognition.

It's just that Professor Pol has helped Duke too much, and Duke can't be too unkind at this moment, but fortunately, Professor Pol has already achieved a lot in this area, and Duke doesn't have to start from scratch.

With the addition of the Ph.D. program, Duke's time commitment to school is about the same as the previous year.