The five years of ups and downs of Liu Weiping and Zhao Yonggang were just Cornell's leaves turning yellow and green for Lin Shuangmian. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAfter Assanzi's suicide, Lin Shuangmian has seen all the states of life, forty years old, for most people, it is far from being confused, for Lin Shuangmian, he no longer knows pain or happiness, and his heart is like stagnant water.

One afternoon, Lin Shuangmian got off work early, walked out of the door of the computer center, walked through the library on the side, and was about to go to the parking lot to pick up the car to sketch.

When he was passing by, "Miss Lin", a Japanese greeting came from Lin Shuangmian's ears, Mrs. Ishida! That's right, it was Mrs. Ishida's voice, Lin Shuangmian pulled back and turned his head, yes, the hair is gray, and the person is thinner than before, but it is the Ishida couple.

Lin Shuangmian greeted him and bowed deeply, "Professor Ishida, I didn't expect that we would see each other again after so many years, what a coincidence." Lin Shuangmian didn't care about sketching, and chatted with the Ishida couple.

Sogo Ishida has just retired, and he is traveling to prestigious schools around the world with his wife, Cornell He used to come when he was young, and today he revisits the old place, but he didn't expect to meet the old man Lin Shuangmian. "What about Assanzi? I heard that he is still in charge of the Arecivo telescope project when he comes back, and he will not work in Puerto Rico. ”

"Assanzi committed suicide shortly after he returned, and someone wanted to stop funding the Areciwo telescope, and he couldn't stand it." Lin Shuangmian told the Ishida couple about Assanzi's bizarre suicide.

"Girl, don't be sad, this is also where he belongs." Mrs. Ishida wanted to comfort Lin Shuangmian, "Madam, thank you for your kindness. Assanzi is already the sixth loved one I've seen pass away, and I can bear it. ”

"Hey, poor boy," Ishida sighed, "you just said that Kerry received the exact same pulse wave as in 1965 when Assanzi committed suicide?" Maybe it has something to do with Assanzi, so let's do it, Liu Weiping developed a program to crack pulse waves before returning to China, but it requires powerful computer resources, I can send him to you when I return to Japan, you may be able to use it. ”

Hearing her husband mention Liu Weiping, Mrs. Ishida was busy poking Ishida's waist behind her back, which was still seen by Lin Shuangmian, "It doesn't matter, I think about it now that Liu Weiping also has his troubles." A few days before Assanzi committed suicide, I felt that he was a little abnormal, to say that the Arecivo Observatory shut down him and committed suicide, I don't believe it, there must be other reasons, if you can give me Liu Weiping's program, I can try it on Cornell's computer, I believe in Liu Weiping's talent. ”

As soon as Sogo Ishida returned to China, he sent Lin Shuangmian the program and code developed by Liu Weiping by e-mail, and when Lin Shuangmian started running at the Cornell Computing Center, he was prompted to enter a pulse file, and Kerry handed Lin Shuangmian the file that Assanzi had accepted when he committed suicide, and Lin Shuangmian entered the file into the computer and began to calculate.

This program occupies more and more resources, many teachers and students come to the computer center to complain, Lin Shuangmian had to abort the program, she felt more and more strongly that there was some kind of connection between pulse wave and Assanzi, her heart was no longer calm, and began to find a way to find better computing resources. Lin Shuangmian thought of Uncle Clifford, and she made an appointment with Clifford to take a flight to Los Angeles.

Clifford sits in a wheelchair with a sound converter on it, and no one could have imagined that this half-robot is firmly in control of Zephyr Animation Productions, post-processing countless Hollywood cartoons.

After listening to Lin Shuangmian's explanation, Clifford spoke, because he couldn't adjust his voice, the voice that came out was very ugly, and after talking for a while, Lin Shuangmian still didn't understand well, Clifford had to switch the voice to the speaker and use the computer to correct it, "Old Kerry told me about Assanzi's situation, this Ishida Sogo I still heard of it for the first time, I didn't expect his Chinese students to be so smart, this is also a question I have been thinking about." ”

Lin Shuangmian did not tell him about his relationship with Liu Weiping, and when he heard Clifford praise Liu Weiping, Lin Shuangmian was a little happy in his heart, and it was fleeting.

"Forty years ago, I suspected that the pulse wave contained some kind of code, but I have not been able to find a way to unravel it, Liu Weiping's idea must be right, the key is to see the evolution speed of this decoding program, it relies on computing resources, large-scale computers have come to an end, and now the Internet connects computers around the world, and distributed computing is the future. Ever since the news broke that the Arecivo Observatory was going to be closed, I was thinking about distribution calculations. I already have a rough idea, which is being commissioned to be developed by a laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and the name of this project is seti@home, which is to search for extraterrestrial civilization signals at home, which is originally to disperse the outer space signals received by the Arecivo radio telescope into networked personal computers, let countless personal computers calculate in their own terminals, and finally aggregate the data to unravel the outer space radio waves. If we put Liu Weiping's program into it and ask him to calculate and decode Assanzi's pulse wave, there must be unexpected results. ”

Lin Shuangmian has worked at Cornell for so many years, and he can understand vaguely, "Why do individuals respond to your plan?" ”

"We mainly rely on alien mysteries, and we must not let them know that they are calculating Assanzi's heart waves, and when it comes to Assanzi's story, I have a better plan, I plan to use him as a prototype to make a film about aliens and distribute it worldwide. I had already written the script when Arecivo had just lost his hearing. If you agree, I'll let the writers use Assanzi as the main character. ”

Lin Shuangmian nodded, "This is the best memorial to him." ”

On May 17, 1999, the seti@home was launched, and for a time it was popular all over the world for extraterrestrial mysteries, many astronomy enthusiasts also ran this program, which is a screensaver program, once the computer with this program is dormant, it will automatically connect to the server in California, download a small piece of data accepted by the Arecivo telescope from it, and then upload it to the server after the analysis is completed, all people think they are helping the Arecivo Observatory find aliens, In fact, most of the computing resources are analyzing Assanzi's heart waves for Lin Shuangmian.

How much computer resources each person contributes and how much data analysis they complete will be ranked on the seti@home program in real time. Many people joined the competition, and one university network administrator had the audacity to install the program on all of the university's more than 5,000 computers, which easily surpassed Cornell's supercomputers.

Lin Shuangmian's hope is getting stronger and stronger, she has to stare at the data analysis progress bar of the seti@home program every day, although the progress is very slow, but the percentage is constantly improving, she knows that as long as more and more computers join in, sooner or later one day will be able to unlock Assanzi's secret, thinking that this is Liu Weiping's contribution, her heart is tangled again.

In the summer of this year, Zephyr Animation produced a sci-fi movie called "Flying to the Hercules", the prototype of the protagonist is Assanzi, who worked at the Arecivo Observatory for twenty years, received a signal from the aliens, and decided to send his brain waves out with super radar, and arrived in the constellation Hercules after 48,000 years, becoming an ambassador for communication between humans and aliens. Because he experienced the Vietnam War, hated the killing nature of humans, and led aliens to occupy the earth, he found that alien creatures were more aggressive, in order to protect his lover Lin Shuangmian, Assanzi led the earthlings and aliens to fight and defend the earth.

"Flying to Hercules" was released around the world at the dawn of the new century, and the world is looking forward to the future world of the next century, and as soon as the movie was released, it immediately occupied the global box office championship, but because it did not use big-name stars, it was unfortunately lost to "American Beauty" and failed to win the 2000 Oscar for Best Picture.

Because of the popularity of "Flight to Hercules", more than five million computers downloaded seti@home program, and all the computing power combined exceeded any supercomputer in the history of the world. Lin Shuangmian saw that the progress bar of data analysis had significantly accelerated the process, and her longing for Assanzi became stronger and stronger.

Not long after the seti@home was launched globally, Liu Weiping in Shanghai noticed this peculiar screen-saver applet, and he immediately realized that this was an epoch-making process, and it was time for supercomputers to retire from the stage of history, and he no longer had to rely on Zhao Yonggang to allocate funds to buy supercomputers, and Liu Weiping thought of a new idea.

On May 31, 2001, it was a Thursday, the Shanghai Composite Index reached a maximum of 2,222 points, and Jufang Technology in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange rushed over 100 yuan in one fell swoop, and the 100-yuan stock became the headline news of the major portals that had just emerged.

More exciting is the investor meeting after the closing, the meeting was presided over by Liu Qing, secretary of the board of directors of Jufang Technology, and all the company's executives attended, and there was only one protagonist, that is, Liu Weiping, the company's chief engineer.

The minutes of the meeting were published on the website of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange the next day, and Liu Weiping publicly announced to investors across the country that Jufang Technology would invest heavily in the development of a mobile phone voice control system to completely liberate users' hands. Representatives of major securities, banks, and funds attended the conference call on the spot, and everyone asked questions when they heard the management of the 100-yuan stock throw out such a plan.

The representative of Southern Securities was the first to ask: "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to ask the first question, now foreign mobile phone giants have not set foot in the field of voice control on a large scale, what is the strength of Jufang Technology?" ”

"Okay, this question is answered by Mr. Liu Weiping, the chief engineer of the company." Liu Qing threw the topic to Liu Weiping.

"As we all know, we rely on the scientific research strength of Shanghai Jiaotong University, and I am also a doctoral supervisor of the School of Communication of Jiaotong University. Speech recognition technology has been reserved for almost a hundred years, a century ago, the Soviet mathematician Markov proposed a mathematical and statistical method for speech recognition, thirty years ago, the Americans used the implicit Markov model for speech recognition to greatly reduce the error rate, which theoretically proved that speech recognition is feasible. In practice, it is much more difficult to recognize Chinese, compared with Western languages, intonation, polyphonic characters, dialects are our characteristics, the School of Communication of Jiaotong University has been researching in this area since the eighties, and some of our products in the early stage have proved our technology accumulation, and the recognition of the market is the recognition of our R&D strength. In the future, if major mobile phone manufacturers enter the field of Chinese recognition, the cost of R&D investment will only be higher than ours, so cooperating with Jufang is their rational choice. ”

Morgan? Stanley's representative asked: "How can you accomplish such a task on a small mobile phone with a small mobile phone that the speed of mobile phone chips is much lower than that of computers, and the computing load of computer speech recognition is very high?" ”

"I would like to ask Mr. Liu Weiping to answer."

"Indeed, the current reality of what you say. I would like to answer two points, first, our current model uses a central server for centralized computing, each person's mobile phone is just a terminal that receives and sends data, and the voice signal is collected by the central server for voice recognition, and the results of recognition are then downloaded to the mobile phone. Second, you will definitely ask how to solve the problem of data upload and download in the 2G era, how to solve the problem of data upload and download, I personally expect that 3G will be popularized in five years at most, and 4G will spread all over the country in ten years. Jufang uses the current cash resources to lay out in advance, and when the 3G era comes, competitors will not have any chance. ”

Liu Weiping's answer was leaky, which made the investors on the scene full of confidence. The time was almost up, and Liu Qing was about to end the meeting, "The last question, who will ask." Everyone raised their hands, "Let's leave the last question to our friends in the banking industry, and ask the representative of the Bank of Communications to ask questions." ”

"Thank you, we have noticed that there are a large number of related business transactions between Jufang and the parent company Jiaoda Real Estate, can the management explain?"

Liu Qing was obviously prepared, and she replied unhurriedly, "The theme of this meeting is to release the voice control investment project plan of Jufang Technology, and your question does not match the theme of this meeting, so it's a pity that you wasted the last opportunity to ask questions." For the sake of time, I would like to conclude the meeting, thank you. ”

The representative of the Bank of Communications did not give up and shouted loudly in the audience: "Please ask Mr. Zhao Yonggang, chairman of the board of directors, to answer the question of related party transactions." No one answered on the stage, and after Liu Qing announced the adjournment of the meeting, the group hurriedly withdrew from the conference room.