Chapter 262 Receive the Highest Honor in Computing 2

Early the next morning, Clay Clark took the main staff of Blackstone Fund on a plane to Tokyo. After Bao Zixuan woke up, he started to dress up. This was the most important day for him, whether in this life or in his previous life.

Bao Zixuan's award brought the Chinese people to receive this honor 20 years earlier. Even those as powerful as Wang An did not receive this honor. It can be said that this is the highest award that Bao Zixuan has won, and it is almost impossible to win an honor more important than this award in the future.

After having breakfast, Bao Zixuan and Professor Harry Rowland drove towards the American Computer Society. Looking at Bao Zixuan's crisp suit, Harry Roland said: "Boy, you look very handsome in this! If you dress like this every day at MIT, more girls will probably like you."

Since the last time Phil Hawkins got married, Bao Zixuan ordered his first dress. As wealth increases, it is necessary to dress appropriately for many occasions. So Bao Zixuan ordered a lot of clothes from that dress store and now he has become a VIP customer of the store.

Bao Zixuan: "Professor is joking, didn't you tell me to dress more formally?"

After a while, the two people arrived at the headquarters of the American Computer Society. Looking at this building, Bao Zixuan felt a little emotional. The various associations in the United States are really rich. At least the Computer Association's economic situation is very good.

This is sponsored by various large companies, especially the Computing Machinery Association, which has a deep cooperative relationship with major high-tech companies and well-known universities. The most important thing is that the highest honor in the computer industry is awarded here every year, which is the top event in the global computer industry.

Most of the staff here know Professor Harry Rowland and greet him warmly. Along the way, Bao Zixuan met many outstanding people in the computer field under the introduction of Professor Harry Rowland. Seeing authoritative experts from various companies, professors from well-known universities, and academic leaders of scientific research institutions, Bao Zixuan wished he could take them all to the Xiangjiang Heiyun Production Center to work for him. If it really succeeds, Xiangjiang will definitely become the place with the most powerful computers in the world, but this is just a good wish.

If he really dared to do this, it is estimated that the US government would arrest Bao Zixuan and shoot him at all costs. After arriving in the hall, I saw that many people had already taken their seats. Bao Zixuan, as the winner this time, was placed in the first row.

The entire hall covers an area of ​​approximately 1,000 square meters and occupies the entire first floor of the building. Many Computer Society award ceremonies and gatherings are held here every year. So the decoration is very luxurious. But it’s more about the computer decoration style, and the overall sci-fi color is very strong.

The current president of the Association for Computing Machinery is Professor Joe Douglas, who graduated from Stanford University. Therefore, more people from Stanford received awards during his tenure. However, the professors who won the award were relatively excellent in academics and achievements, and did not involve any behind-the-scenes operations.

To put it bluntly, the Turing Award is a competition between several university alumni, the most important one is between MIT and Stanford. Alumni from these two universities have won more than half of the awards, even in the 21st century.

We are all IT guys here, so the procedure is relatively simple. There are no complicated steps and everything is very streamlined. Everything is very pragmatic, which is also the tragedy of science and engineering men.

Joe Douglas stood on the stage and said: "Hello, all the elites in the computer industry! I am Joe Douglas, your old friend. It's the annual Turing Award ceremony again, which is the most important event of our association every year. important event.”

"Alan Matheson Turing is a pioneer and leader in our computer industry. The highest honor in computing is named after him every year. It can be said that not only to commemorate the great predecessor, but also to enable all of us computer people to Use Turing's deeds to push yourself. I hope all the winners can make greater contributions to the computing community and lead our association to go further."

"Today we are going to award trophies to the winners of the 1979 Turing Award. This may be the youngest winner since our Turing Award was founded in 1966, and also the richest winner. It is estimated that this record will be difficult to break in the future."

At this time, everyone looked at Bao Zixuan, knowing that the president must be talking about him. Bao Zixuan nodded politely to everyone who came over to express his gratitude.

Joe Douglas continued: "This winner is the developer of office software, the programmer of system software, and the pioneer of computer miniaturization. It can be said that his achievements can save mankind countless tons of paper every year. The number of trees cut down can be said to be uncountable.”

"He is Bao Zixuan from MIT. We congratulate Bao Zixuan for winning the 1979 Turing Award."

Bao Zixuan stood up when he heard his name being mentioned. After waving and greeting everyone, the focus of the audience was focused on him at this time. As Joe Douglas said, this is the richest and youngest winner of the Turing Award. There is no way to describe him too much at this time. After all, this honor is too high.

After receiving the Turing Award silver bowl trophy and certificate from Joe Douglas, Bao Zixuan came to the microphone. He will give an acceptance speech to express his gratitude to the association and all staff.

Bao Zixuan looked at the people below and said: "Thank you to the association, President Douglas and all members of the Computing Machinery Association. To be honest, being able to win the Turing Award is something I have never dared to think about. It's all just a dream."

"I am an ordinary teenager in Xiangjiang. Before I went to Oxford, I had only read introductions about computers in newspapers and magazines. When I first started using computers, I was thinking about how to write a quick calculation and accounting software for my mother. Let She won’t have to work so hard in the future, which may be my original intention of continuing to learn computer technology.”

"After arriving at MIT, I was exposed to the most cutting-edge computer knowledge in the world, which opened my eyes. Computers are not only able to realize my childhood dream, but there are many things in it that are worth exploring. Hardware and How can software be perfectly combined, and how can computer performance be matched to achieve the highest computing value? These are all problems we have to solve, and this is a subject that is more challenging than any other subject."

"The computer knowledge we know now is only the tip of the iceberg, and there is still a lot to go in the future. In the future, Heiyun will spend at least US$100 million on computer research and development every year, and will spare no effort in investing in computer science."

"I don't ask for much in return, I just hope that computer science can continue to progress and make our lives better and more convenient, thank you all."

After speaking, he bowed to the audience, and the audience was also very considerate. Everyone stood up and applauded Bao Zixuan. This was a recognition of his winning the award, and it may also be a recognition of his annual investment of US$100 million in computer science research and development.

After walking off the stage, many people came over to greet him warmly. In fact, Bao Zixuan said that it invests no less than 100 million US dollars in computer science research and development every year just for advertising. It is to release a message to all top computer experts that Heiyun Group can provide you with research and development funds. This is a big temptation for scholars and professors who cannot get research and development funds from other companies and schools.

In fact, the research directions of many scholars are not recognized by the majority of people, and many of them have no hope. Moreover, even if they see a direction, the input and output are not proportional. Not every scientific research project has economic value. Many scholars’ research directions tend to be more theoretical research and cannot produce physical objects at all.