Chapter 220: International Students
Speaking of the computer science department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we have to mention the Turing Award, a world-class award known as the Nobel Prize in the computer world.
The Turing Award was established by the American Computer Society in 1966 to reward people who have made outstanding contributions to the computer industry.
Since the establishment of the Turing Award, by 2015, there have been a total of 64 winners, and some data show that among the winners of the Turing Award, the Turing Award winners of the University of California, Berkeley, according to the world's first, are 22; In second place is Stanford University with 20; In third place is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with 19 students. Basically, these three universities gave the Turing Award to Bao Yuan. If people from other schools want to steal the appearance in front of these three schools, it is really more difficult than climbing to the sky.
And the winner of the first Turing Award, Alan Paley, was born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alan Paley is the leader of computer science in the United States, and most of the computer doctoral students in the United States in the sixties and seventies came from his disciples, which can be called the Taishan Beidou in the computer science industry. If Junxin wants to achieve good results in the computer field, then it is also a good choice to try his luck with Alan Paley, at least if he has the affirmation of this living legend in the computer field, it is also good for his future Internet plans. Although this computer scientist does not often appear at MIT, and even went to Temple University in the United States to become a professor at one time, the chance of meeting this person is basically the largest in MIT. However, Junxin will not go to this computer authority empty-handed, in fact, he himself is also very researched about computers. In the compilation principles of the six major fields of computer, programming languages, computational complexity theory, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and databases, he is only relatively not very familiar with artificial intelligence, which is still based on Junxin's own bias against artificial intelligence.
In fact, he has always believed that no matter how the so-called artificial intelligence develops, it will still be placed under the wisdom of human beings in the end, so what he understands about artificial intelligence is only the program flow and working principle of artificial intelligence recognition and judgment.
In fact, he is most interested in the compilation principles and the design of program predictions in the six major areas, which is similar to Alan Paley, which is why he went to Alan Paley instead of other computer authorities.
There is a joke in the world of mathematics that it is very easy for mathematicians to become computer scientists, because they just need to learn to write code, but it is very difficult for computer scientists to become mathematicians because they can only write formulas, not calculations.
Of course, this sentence is a bit of a joke, but it also talks about the difference between computer science and mathematics. If you look at the history of computer science, you will find that most computer scientists actually started out as mathematicians, including Alan Paley, but when they became computer scientists, they quickly achieved significant things.
If Junxin wants to be affirmed by Professor Alan Paley, it must come up with corresponding results, and this kind of achievement for Junxin is to spend several days writing a research paper on computers. With the bonus of the title of world-renowned mathematician, Junxin is not worried about his paper being questioned at all, which undoubtedly saves him great trouble.
The result of this is that Junxin once again pitted himself, originally after proving the four-dimensional Pang Jialai conjecture, he could have had a period of rest, but in this way, he was looking for information, busy writing papers, and discussing Fermat's theorem with Professor Wiles, and he was in a dark place. Roommate Als Alfors jokes that he is busier than he is when he doesn't have to take the final exam.
In this way, this dark day did not stop a little on December 20, when Junxin boarded the train to Massachusetts. As a result, an article was written in CommunicationsofACM, a leading computer magazine, for each of the six major areas of computing. It is estimated that as soon as these six articles are published, they will cause a great sensation in the world computer science circles.
After arriving at MIT safely along the way, this time Junxin did not visit his colleagues in the mathematics department of MIT like last time, but first went to the adjacent Harvard University to visit Professor Yau Chengtong. After all, compared to MIT, where there is no acquaintance, Harvard University is relatively better, at least there are acquaintances with the same roots to communicate.
Professor Yau Chengtong was very surprised by Junxin's sudden visit, of course, surprise is surprise, in fact, it is still the most happy component, first blamed him for why he didn't say hello in advance, and then happily took Junxin to his own research institute.
"Xiaojun, you must stay a few more days this time, at least you must do a lecture on the four-dimensional Pang Jialai conjecture!" Professor Qiu said to Junxin with a smile.
"I expected it before I came!" Junxin smiled faintly. With the fame of Pang Jialai's conjecture in the world mathematics community, although Junxin only took a small step on the original basis, it caused no less sensation than when he first proved Modell's conjecture.
"My old friend, the "Playboy", has read your paper many times and has a very high opinion of your paper! By the way, he is also one of the reviewers of these three papers of yours! Professor Yau smiled and mentioned Professor Hamilton.
"How is Professor Hamilton doing?" Junxin asked, at the original Princeton Mathematics Exchange, Junxin and Professor Hamilton had a very pleasant exchange.
"He, now he's busy with the singularity of Richie Stream that you told him, I have a feeling that he is going to do something great, and now my graduate student Shi Wanxiong is studying the tool of Richy Stream under him. By the way, Shi Wanxiong happens to be free today, and he will introduce you to him later, and I will ask you to take care of him in the future! Professor Qiu said with a smile.
"Oh, it's good!" Junxin readily agreed, Shi Wanxiong was a great figure in geometric analysis in the mathematical world in the future, and he was a person who made a lot of achievements when he followed Hamilton when he was studying Richy Flow.