Stanford University may be more eager for success than its students themselves, because it understands that this may be the best chance for the century-old Stanford University to overtake in the corner and leapfrog from a regionally renowned university to a world-class university.

Yale University has a near-monopoly on American political academia, Harvard University has a monopoly on traditional American business and related academics, and the University of Chicago has a dominant power over American jurisprudence.

In order to keep pace with these old and powerful schools, Stanford University chose All In the emerging computer and Internet industries.

At present, Stanford University's goal of overtaking in the corner has been about to be realized, nearly 20 years of investment regardless of cost, a variety of support policies around related industries, so that Stanford University in the United States of various universities in the computer related majors ranked far ahead, Stanford Industrial Park, that is, the famous Silicon Valley has now given birth to 90 listed companies related to the computer industry, of which 60% of the company's founders have the identity of Stanford alumni.

These companies can also provide jobs for a large number of Stanford graduates every year, and donate to their alma mater from time to time, so that Stanford can have sufficient funds to increase its investment in related majors.

The consequence of this virtuous circle is that the top scholars in the entire American computer industry are brought to Stanford University, for example, a professor with the status of a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the research fund for gigabit speed networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may only be 100 yuan, if Stanford University graduates, an alumnus who started a business in Silicon Valley realizes that this kind of research may be of great help to the future development of his company, then his approach is not to poach the professor from his company at a high price. Instead, he donated a large sum of money to his alma mater, Stanford University, and then the Stanford school ran to bring the other party back to Stanford University with promises of a checkbook of far more than 100 yuan and a freer scientific research environment.

Let's put it this way, as long as the other party agrees to work at Stanford University, any harsh conditions can be met.

Tommy, Quinn and other students are old guys, Winton Cerf was left behind by his alma mater in this way.

Although he was privately called an old fellow by the students, Winton was actually just forty-five years old, but because he suffered from severe hearing loss, he always had a loud conversation with his family at home to hear clearly, a habit that he did not correct even if he was wearing hearing aids now, and when he spoke to the students, he always shouted loudly like an old man who was deaf and thought everyone was deaf as well.

Every time Tommy hears the sound of his office calling the students in the hall to help him with chores, he has the illusion of Howard's mom calling Howard in "The Big Bang Theory".

Miraculously, this guy only shouts at this very loud volume in his own office, and as soon as he walks out of the room, he immediately becomes suave and elegant, looking like a British gentleman.

This guy who has more than ten times more titles, positions, and identities than the Dragon Mother of "Game of Thrones" is willing to spend most of his time working at Stanford University, in addition to the fact that he graduated from Stanford and is a genuine Stanford alumnus, the most important thing is that Stanford University has shown more sincerity than the University of California, the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois and other universities.

They managed to buy back the old PDP-1 computer that Winton Cerf had written for the Apollo program from NASA, and it contained a Space War game that Winton Cerf had secretly installed to pass the time when he was working for NASA.

It only took less than 20,000 yuan to move this eliminated big guy from NASA back to Stanford University, but sincerity is priceless, after all, no other university pays such intimate attention to Winton Cerf's little hobby, so Professor Winton Cerf, who was moved, chose to stay at Stanford University for teaching and research work.

For Winton-Cerf, it doesn't really make much difference where he works, but for Stanford, the choice is very different, because Professor Winton-Cerf has so many statuses, and his presence at Stanford means that other institutions are also skewed towards Stanford.

For example, he is the chief scientist of the Center for Information Processing Technology at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an advanced research and development organization established by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop emerging technologies for use by the military.

In the original plan of the Department of Defense, the information processing technology center in charge of Professor Cerf wanted to lease the land of the MIT research park and cooperate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but because the chief scientist Winton Cerf chose to stay at Stanford to teach, the technology center eventually settled in the Stanford Industrial Park, that is, Silicon Valley.

You know, that's a direct agency of the Pentagon, not a door-picking agency like the National Science Foundation that has to carry out a strict annual budget for every fund, and in the minds of those bigwigs in the Pentagon's Department of Defense, they may not know the concept of burning money and budget.

Back then, Ohio University, with the financial support of this department, spent tens of millions of dollars just to research how to build a four-wheel military truck, and this research made the presidents of all universities in the United States couldn't help but run to see how many wheels the truck was running on the road, trying to figure out what was the need for research on this thing.

Later, after the sky-high truck incident was exposed, a member of Congress of Justice stepped forward to find out the shady, and the result was that the investigator who arranged for him suddenly committed suicide with severe depression, and the congressman who led the formation of the investigative committee broke out of the scandal and resigned, and the Department of Defense said to Ohio University, continue to help me research and build a four-wheeled truck, I am willing to watch.

Which university doesn't worship the Pentagon as a god, and now, this sky-high wealth has been given to Stanford University, regardless of whether there is such an exaggerated demand for network transmission, just install it according to the gigabit standard, and all kinds of hardware equipment don't need to consider the price, just move back like Black Friday.

In addition to the equipment, hundreds of related scientists and engineers have flocked to Stanford University to work on research under Winton Cerf, and if these researchers need interns or assistants, the best option is of course to choose the nearest Stanford University student.

The National Science Foundation's total annual budget for research funding for all universities in the United States last year was 1.2 billion, which means that dozens or hundreds of universities should try their best to attract each other with research on various topics and take as much as possible from the $1.2 billion in research funds.

The National Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) gave $42.75 million in funding for the year when it established the Information Processing Technology Center at Stanford University, which means that even if the military loses half of the reason for using sky-high coffee cups, sky-high chairs, and sky-high desks, it will take more than 20 million dollars of real gold and platinum every year for Stanford University to squander.

This is also the reason why MIT can't wait to sleep and wake up crying every time it remembers that it missed the opportunity to make peace with the military because it gave away one less game console.

“Hi！ Tommy! Shede's back from Los Angeles! Walking into the Internet project hall of the supercomputing center, more than a dozen people who were busy chatting in the monitor room heard the footsteps and raised their heads, and when they saw the people clearly, they immediately greeted Tommy.

"I'm watching your show of laxatives for pigeons! You're a Stanford talent who taught you for four years, and in return for it was to discredit it with a rainstorm of pigeon poop hitting tourists! ”

"I think Tommy is better than Jason, Jason's bastard swore on the show that he would donate money to Stanford so that his girlfriend would come to Stanford to get a diploma! I hate this kind of bastard who doesn't count! ”

"That's right, I called the admissions office more than 20 times a day, but I didn't hear the news of his beautiful girlfriend's admission!"

Sophia looked curiously at the men and women sitting in front of the monitor in the hall, some of them were dressed very casually like Tommy and Quinn, and some were dressed in civilian military clothes without military ranks, the older of them were in their thirties, and the younger ones looked like high school students.

"Are the Internet cult evangelists willing to come back?" A voice rang out from behind Sophia, and she turned her head to see a middle-aged man, standing outside an office door with a straight face, speaking to Tommy.

The other party was tall, wearing a three-piece British suit that was out of place with these people in the hall, every beard was carefully groomed, and even a pocket handkerchief of the same color as the tie was pinned to the left breast pocket of the suit, looking like an English gentleman who was suddenly thrown from London to California.

Tommy smiled, "Good morning, Professor Cerf. ”

The other party is the famous Winton Cerf, a purebred Anglo-Saxon who was a member of the VSA Order of the Phoenix when he was a student at Stanford University.

"It's not good, especially after I learned that you got what you wanted, and Congress passed the amendments to the Communications Act." Winton-Cerf said to Tommy, then looked at Quinn, "I need a hot cup of coffee." ”

Quinn immediately walked briskly towards the pantry, and after Professor Cerf had finished his instructions, he turned and went back to his office.

Tommy followed in, surveyed the layout of the office, and said:

"Professor, I haven't had time to inform you of this good news, I want to surprise you in person, I mean, how do you know?"

"MCI Corporation convened a board meeting for you, and as the vice president of MCI and your professors, I was also there, and they congratulated me on teaching a good student, and your adherence to the definition of Internet information and the non-discriminatory regulatory provisions of the FCC have led to a significant increase in MCI's stock price and paid business, and they are also ready to donate 10 million to Stanford University, thank Stanford for cultivating talents like you." Professor Cerf said, sitting back down in front of his computer.

Tommy nodded as a matter of course: "The free and open Internet information transmission environment deserves everyone's happiness for this." ”

"Not being subject to the discriminatory regulation of the FFC means that those spam providers can send a large amount of spam to other people's mailboxes unscrupulously through MCI-Mail, such as election advertisements to solicit votes, such as charity advertisements for fundraising, junk stock recommendation advertisements on Wall Street, and even discounted messages, etc., MCI earns high service fees from spammers, and spam providers earn high advertising fees from large supermarket chains, securities companies, and various organizations. Except for the people who received the spam, indeed, everyone was happy about it. Winton-Cerf sighed:

"The openness and freedom of the Internet should not be this kind of manifestation, Tommy, the definition of Internet freedom is not free and unregulated to let capital accumulate money."

"It's a good thing that people can see where to buy discounted items through those emails." Tommy defended his actions with a smile on his face.

Quinn walked in from outside with a coffee and put it in Cerf's hand, and then blatantly stayed by to eavesdrop on their conversation.

Winton-Cerf didn't bother to look at Tommy again, picked up his coffee and sniffed the aroma: "Politicians will also know to increase their own propaganda channels through e-mail, and future Internet interactions, the battlefield of public opinion was newspapers before, now television, and the future is the Internet, so, what are you going to do when you come back?" I don't have anything left for you to squeeze, and you've got all the information technology you think can be used for profit. ”

"Do you want me to kick him out, Professor?" Quinn asked with a grimace next to him.

Wynton Cerf smiled and shook his head when he heard Quinn's words: "Forget it, at least half of the dozens of Internet-related research projects in these buildings have received his donation, just like the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is always open to McGowan, the chairman of the board of directors of MCI, and the same is true for Tommy Hawke here, he donated enough money." ”

"No, McGowan was for the right heart, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center did more than one heart transplant for him." Tommy defended: "I'm different, I'm for the free development of the Internet industry. ”

McGowan, the owner of the American telecommunications service provider MCI, is 62 years old this year, smokes three packs of cigarettes a day, more than 20 cups of coffee, and works 15 hours, the reason why he is not afraid of sudden death is because the ability of money allows him to replace his heart with a new one after it is scrapped, and in order to ensure that there is always a suitable heart source, this guy directly donated a huge amount of money to a regenerative medicine research institute at the University of Pittsburgh.

MCI is now the second-largest telecommunications fiber optic network service provider in the United States, with a network covering 46,000 miles, a 16 percent market share, and a 20 percent stake in the John Kruger family in nearly 100 countries for paid voice calling, fax, data transmission and e-mail.

As for the master and apprentice, they are no strangers to MCI's internal information, because Tommy's own WinStar company holds 9% of MCI's shares, and Winton Cerf is the vice president of digital information technology at MCI, and as early as 1984, he helped MCI design and launch the business email MCI-Mail service, which is considered the father of business email.

"Why don't you go and see Jason and find out what your business companies are doing, what are you doing here?" Winton Cerf took a sip of his coffee and asked Tommy, "Don't tell me it's because you miss me, I won't believe it." ”

Tommy shrugged his shoulders and said what he meant: "Actually, I want to ask the professor to help me design an advertisement, I have always felt that even if you are not engaged in Internet research, you will be a genius advertising designer, the MCI ad you led on TV was selected by the magazine as the best fifty American commercial works of all time, saying that it is comparable to the classic advertising works of Pepsi and Coca-Cola war, allowing MCI to take 6% of the market share from AT&T. In one fell swoop, it became the third largest telecommunications service provider in the United States. ”

Seeing that the old guy was slightly stunned at first, and then his eyes flashed with excitement, Quinn next to him stroked his forehead and lowered his voice to Tommy: "Can't you change the method of squeezing the professor?" First game consoles, and now commercials? ”

"It just works." Tommy responded, "And if you can get the professor to finally nod and help me, I'll send Susan, Sophia, and Jason's girlfriend Susie to bed with you to sleep with you." ”

"Deal." Quinn finished speaking indifferently, and then slightly distanced himself from Tommy with a look of annoyance, and shouted at him in dissatisfaction, "The professor doesn't have time to help you think of those messy ideas right now!" Do you know how important his work is now, he represented the United States, won the Internet Protocol war with Europe, and is now busy perfecting the Internet Protocol suite......"

"Which advertising magazine selected the ad I designed that year as a classic?" Before Quinn could finish speaking, Winton-Cerf had already interrupted her and asked Tommy curiously.

"The latest issue of Billboard magazine in Washington's Ted Newspaper, do you want to see it, I bought a copy of it." Tommy walked quickly out of the office, pulled out the magazine that had been prepared from Sophia's bag, and ran back to turn the page of the selection, handing it to Winton Cerf.

The above classic advertising selection is a fake selection that he asked Ted to help with deliberately, anyway, his magazine sales are average, and professionals are probably too lazy to waste pen and ink to question the professionalism of this kind of selection, but it should be enough to fool himself into teaching this kind of layman.

"Professor, I warn you, don't fall for this bastard, he just wants you to help him achieve some dark purpose that no one knows, Tommy is a stinking fly, he smells the smell of money, and the best way to deal with this kind of person is to spray his brain with a large bottle of insecticide......" Quinn is still trying to reverse persuasion.

Winton Cerf laughed happily as he watched his advertising work reach the top of the rankings, he had won numerous computer-related number one awards, but none of the unexpected twenty-one places made him happy.

"It's not a bad thing to change your mind once in a while, Quinn, go and keep busy with your work, Tommy is not as bad as you say, he's a good student, you went too far, I think you should apologize to him." He kept his eyes on the magazine and said to Quinn, who was slamming Tommy.

Quinn walked out, and before leaving, he lowered his voice and whispered in Tommy's ear, "Get them ready, if you dare to pay ......"

"Honesty and trustworthiness are my most precious virtues, and I will do what I say, and if they refuse, I will lie in bed for them." Tommy said seriously.

(End of chapter)