Chapter 358 Conversation About the Project

Shuimu University, Main Building, East Wing, Wang Xu Laboratory.

Wang Xu's laboratory only has four rooms in total, two of which are large rooms, and the smaller one is Wang Xu's independent office. Wang Xu is not here all year round, so his assistant usually takes care of it.

Director Jiang and Professor Luo Congwen used another office to work, and there were also offices for several doctors, which seemed a little crowded.

Especially today, because Professor Yan also came here to get information. Although he could just find a doctor to do this, who made him want to know about Wang Xu's current situation with Director Jiang.

"What is Wang Xu busy with recently? He is a professor, so why can't he see anyone? Which project is his project? There are so many things." Professor Yan looked at the piles of documents in front of him and knew That boy Wang Xu is causing trouble again.

"He should be busy making movies now. He is very enthusiastic. It feels like he is more interested in it than doing scientific research.

Some results have been achieved so far. I have been to his film and television base, and if you don’t look carefully, you can’t tell it’s a set. It’s amazing. "Director Jiang and Professor Yan were sitting on the sofa and smoking. There was a sofa, a coffee table, and they could drink tea. This is already top-notch treatment in Shuimu's office.

“He just likes those literary and artistic things, but his artistic attainments are not lower than his scientific level, and they are also top-notch in the world.

I don’t know much about art, but I often listen to comments from professionals in various fields, including Professor Jin from the Conservatory of Music, who is one of the top music experts in the country.

Whether it's music or painting, people's evaluations are the same, and the songs I listen to are also great. Almost all of his wife's songs are written by him. Speaking of which, I can be regarded as a fan of their young couple.

Since he dares to make a movie this time, it means that his level is not bad. "Professor Yan still trusts Wang Xu as always. He didn't even need to investigate, and he could guess that Wang Xu would not start the film project at all if he was not sure.

"I feel the same way. Although this kid may be unreasonable, but if you want to say that he is unreliable, then there really is no reliable person."

Director Jiang may actually know more about Wang Xu than Professor Yan. Although he does not have as many private contacts as Wang Xu and Professor Yan, he can see the confidential materials. How could there be less comments about Wang Xu in them.

"You said on the phone that he has launched a new project. What are they?" Professor Yan brought the topic back to the topic. It is almost normal to talk about Wang Xu without finishing it. Anyone can start the conversation. He can talk for a long time.

"He compiled this pile a while ago. Yuzhuo and I took a rough look at it. There are quite a few of them that are suitable for you. Let you pick first. After all, you are your mother's family here, but you should do what you can. The above have already criticized Wang Xu's creativity in Shuimu Monopoly.

So, you pick a few good ones first, and help the others to figure out what kind of charter they should be.

Divide it as much as possible. There is a lot of money from patents this year, so you can plan it carefully. Nowadays, life in various universities is not very easy. Although there is a serious talent gap, there are still many young scholars who are very pursuing. "

As Director Jiang spoke, he pushed a large pile of materials in front of Professor Yan. Of course, there was also a stack of three-inch floppy disks, which were electronic files.

Wang Xu used open source projects to develop countless products, and these products naturally produced a variety of electronic documents.

In order to unify the format of these documents so that they can browse and even reference each other, Wang Xu designed a number of open interfaces in the middle so that people can easily unify the information format.

The 1990s was the most complex era of various document types. At this time, the Internet was not yet so popular, and a large number of document transmissions still relied on floppy disks. Major software companies had not yet divided their territories, let alone completed acquisitions and integration operations.

Therefore, various document formats can be said to be flying all over the sky. Wang Xu naturally has a headache, so he drew on the XML of later generations and directly created a tagged document embedding rule system based on XML, so that all documents can Interoperability based on the same standard system.

You can keep your document format confidential, but you must provide interfaces and applications that can be connected.

It also defines new standard binary formats for commonly used vector formats, scalar formats, image formats, video formats, image compression formats, video compression formats, printing formats, etc. Anyway, it includes everything he can think of. .

Judging from the current spread of open source products, at least it will not be like the situation in later generations, because a document format is stuck in various ways.

He even designed some brand-new printer systems based on micromachining and thin film processing technology. Well, the general principle is that although it is not possible to directly print out chips yet, there is still no problem in printing text images with fixed colors.

After all, if you think about it, even a high-definition image with a resolution of 3000dpi is on the order of 1/100 millimeter, which is a millimeter. This is an order of magnitude different from integrated circuit units such as microns and nanometers.

Wang Xu provided a specific design idea. The basis was the micromechanical structure produced by the growth method, coupled with the color system developed by Wang Xu in the Department of Chemistry, and four-color and six-color inkjet printers were developed. It's really not that difficult.

Don’t underestimate these things. The market is very large. They are widely used in ordinary families and offices. Epson, Canon and HP have made a lot of money with them.

Wang Xu’s technology is not completely consistent with theirs. The patent rights can be controlled by himself. Although it is not known abroad, at least he can sell a lot in China.

And the large-format and even giant-format printers have also supported several large electronic companies. Especially the large-format wide-format printers are the first step in industrial digitalization.

At the same time, it is also the basis for various large-scale flat advertisements. This thing is much better than using photos.

Wang Xu had thrown this thing to Brother Yuzhuo a long time ago. Now in his eyes, this level of invention is not something that should be taken seriously. It is said that the Precision Instrument Department is very interested and is working on it. It will take half a year.

The establishment of various standards has actually provided a lot of convenience for Wang Xu’s various operations. At least now he doesn’t have to worry about the problem that people don’t know how to open a document, and Wang Xu doesn’t need to carry heavy printed manuscripts around.

Shuimu has been rapidly replacing all its staff with Tongfang workstations. The office and scientific tools that can be run on them are much better than those pirated ones.

It's not that there are no such tools on PCs, but CDs have not yet become popular on a large scale, so piracy is still at the stage of copying floppy disks from one another.

Even in college, it is quite difficult to find some software.

The software companies in the ugly country are all focused on the ugly country, and we don't even know what new software is born in China.

Therefore, although the various software that Wang Xu has developed has many bugs and is not so easy to use, it really solves the problem of many people, and there are really not many complaints.

After all, most of them are written by students. In terms of humanization and smoothness of use, they can't be compared with real commercial software, and the users are all people in the industry. At most, they can just mess around with it themselves.

However, even in the near future, this will no longer be a problem.

As far as Wang Xu knows, dozens or even hundreds of various software companies have been established in various universities and research institutes, focusing on the details of these software products and launching their own packaged products using the core of open source.

There are even independent office software, financial software, database software, CAD software and the like that have been put on the market for sale. It is said that they are selling well, at least in China.

A few years ago, the old man said that computers should be taught to children from an early age, which has led to an unprecedented enthusiasm for learning and using computers across the country. If the price of computers had not been too high, it would have formed a wave long ago.

But even so, it is not bad. Various imported and domestic compatible machines have also appeared on a large scale in enterprises, institutions and governments across the country.

COS has a good adaptability to Chinese characters and a convenient graphical interface, which makes the country quite interested in this operating system, but now this operating system does not support pure PCs very well.

Graphics use too many floating-point operations, and an independent co-processor card is required to run very smoothly.

In fact, GIT also has a special project to adapt to pure PCs, but the progress is not very fast, and it is mainly improved by the contributions of volunteers.

If this thing enters the PC market in the United States, it will face competition from DOS + Windows. If it really succeeds, I am afraid it will break Wintel's plan.

Therefore, even when it was just released, it was subject to many restrictions, and all kinds of negative news about the COS operating system never stopped.

In fact, this was also caused by Wang Xu's lack of energy. He himself would not run such a business. He did not have the time.

Microsoft is now very powerful. It can almost be said that it has dominated the PC field, all over the world.

And in China, it is almost the combination of pirated DOS+WINDOWS.

If we look at the installed capacity, COS's market share may not even be 1%.

However, the architecture of Tongfang workstation is public, and the first generation uses Intel processors. Wang Xu did not stop other ugly companies from manufacturing compatible models according to that standard.

It's just that the market is really small now. Only a few emerging companies dedicated to server manufacturing use this architecture and use the COS operating system. Who makes it rich in network applications? It is almost a one-stop solution.

All this has to wait until the second phase of the supercomputer is truly completed, and various chips are designed and manufactured independently. Even if the manufacturing is a little worse, the workstation model formed by stacking chips can still become the main office and work machine.

At most, the price is a little bit higher, but the performance is good. Therefore, the country is not in a hurry to promote it on a large scale, but the promotion of universities and colleges is still very powerful. Tongfang, Founder and Inspur have made a lot of money.

The two of them went off topic and then returned to continue the conversation, but there are almost endless topics to talk about around Wang Xu.

"Wang Xu is really capable of doing things. How can he have so many wonderful ideas?

You said that there are still projects that have not been completed in the first phase of the growth method, and the second phase has already caught up.

The second phase of the supercomputer has even approved the central processing unit and image processor.

It is said that he has created a new RISC-1 architecture, but he has no intention of leading it. The architecture itself is open source and anyone can use it. Wang Xu has already put it on GIT.

I took a look and to be honest, I didn't understand it. "Professor Yan was a little impressed by Wang Xu's troubles. He was the person who knew Wang Xu's abilities the most, but he still couldn't see the bottom of this person.

"It's okay as long as someone can understand it. The research and development plan of specific models can be handed over to the upper level for overall planning.

It's better for Shuimu to participate in this thing. It's better to operate it as a company. I guess the upper level will also consider this. I have submitted those and it is estimated that there will be results soon.

The upper level means that if you want to break the ice now, it's better not to be too ostentatious. The ugly country is keeping a close eye on us. We are still too weak as a whole. The strategy of keeping a low profile needs to continue, and the purpose of focusing on economic construction cannot be changed.

Therefore, we should moderately open up the scope of the project and cooperate with a wider range of universities.

Shuimu has taken the lead for two years. It's time to open up to more schools. It's okay if the project progresses slowly. We have exploded a little too much, which is easy to attract jealousy. "Director Jiang quickly reminded Professor Yan not to be too greedy.

"There are indeed such concerns, but we don't care. Has the school agreed?" Professor Yan is now a full professor and deputy department head. His position is very stable. After two years, it is estimated that he will be promoted to department head.

The changes in the Automation Department in the past two years can be said to be changing with each passing day, and all the changes are derived from his initial insight. Apart from anything else, based on this achievement, Shuimu and the Automation Department will not treat him unfairly.

But now he has a bit of a desire for nothing. He knows that he is not a real scientific research master. If it weren't for his father's light, plus he had been abroad and had some international vision, he would not have been able to even be a deputy department head before.

But his academic achievements are just like this. It is estimated that it is a bit difficult to become an academician. After all, there are several internationally renowned scholars in the Automation Department, and the projects he is named in are all practical The kind with high quality, but average scientific research.

Only the blue light project is more outstanding, but that's all. Wang Xu has analyzed this project. In a big way, it's not too much to give it a Nobel Prize, but in a small way, it's just an industrialized product.

This depends on the international attitude towards China, not really on the level of scientific research.

Wang Xu's graphene project is Nobel-level enough, and whether it can be obtained also depends on the international environment.

But the current situation is enough to send him all the way to the academician of the Academy of Sciences. Now he is too young, and he is only 20 years old now.

Moreover, Wang Xu has been involved in too many things, and he hasn't gotten rid of them yet. If he is promoted too quickly, he will become the target of public criticism, and everyone will notice him.

The above advice is to be steady first, otherwise Shuimu plans to give him a professor directly this year, and then apply for it next year Academician.

And Professor Duan can probably get it if he perseveres. After all, he is an internationally renowned figure in the continued research of graphene. He also works on a scanning electron microscope and has independently published several first-tier papers in less than two years.

It is not too much to have two academicians for such a project.

The Blue Light Project is different. Although the project was jointly studied by three professors from the Department of Electronics, Materials and Automation and the experiment was finally successful.

But the corresponding author and first author of the Nature paper are both Wang Xu, and the professors from the three departments are only second authors.

In total, Wang Xu does not count here, which means that if luck is good, three people can get one academician of the Academy of Engineering.

But when it comes to contributions among the three, Professor Yan does not have an advantage. Instead, the professor from the Department of Electronics has a better advantage. He has continued to publish several high-quality papers on the basis of Blue Light. He even made the blue semiconductor laser.

For such an achievement, it is really unreasonable not to give him an academician.

The Department of Electronics has been publishing papers on various new materials produced by the growth method. They are really more excited than anyone else. Well, judging from the number of papers, only the Department of Chemistry can compete with them.

The growth method can definitely produce an academician. Although it is kept secret and only theoretical papers are published, everyone knows the importance of this method.

But everyone knows that the position belongs to Lao Bian. It is reasonable and appropriate for him to do so. After all, he has invested the most energy.

It is a pity for Lao Gu. Although he is the project leader of the growth method, everyone knows that he is mainly in the administrative management of the project. However, there is no problem for him to be promoted to the professor level, but it is unlikely that he will be an academician.

With this calculation, in the next few years, Shuimu will have at least four more academicians, and there will definitely be one more in the supercomputing department. This guy will make other colleges and universities even more anxious.

"In addition, the funding for national defense is very tight now, and many projects have been cut. I talked to Wang Xu once, and he said that we could get those digital research institutes to work together to develop some things. Many things are originally dual-use for military and civilian purposes.

We don't have money now, but we don't have to have money in the future. On the one hand, we can train the team, and on the other hand, we can reduce the burden on the country.

He also agreed, and specially came up with a few special projects and made a lot of suggestions, which I submitted.

But outside, it's still the same. Just assume that he doesn't know and you don't know. They will most likely change their name and use the name of a research institute to undertake the project. "Director Jiang continued to introduce the situation, especially introducing some exceptional cases to Professor Yan.

"Well, I see. It's a given. Do we need to take special care of them?" Professor Yan immediately understood what he meant.

"That's not necessary. They actually have a serious talent gap. The battle in 1991 made them a little confused. They are also very anxious now.

It is estimated that they will cooperate with Shuimu to organize some special targeted training classes at all levels. Anyway, there are many ways to operate. Under the same conditions, try to give them some preference.

Their life is even worse than that of colleges and universities. "Director Jiang sighed rarely. Isn't it? You can see that generals in later generations can cry on TV programs, and you know what kind of life they are living now.

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