Lu Zhou didn't have to wait long.
After drinking half a cup of coffee, a piece of printed information was placed in front of him by a thick mechanical arm.
Lu Zhou was satisfied with Xiao Ai's efficiency. He picked up the documents and flipped through two pages. There was a flash of surprise in his eyes.
Before he received this information, he had made a lot of wild guesses in his mind, but he didn't expect Lu Zhou's academic resume to be so clean. It was so clean that it made people's hearts ache.
What should I say?
Lu Zhou had published a lot of theses. Judging from the number of citations, Lu Zhou's theses weren't just any random papers. His research field was also quite broad, covering both biological neural networks and mechanical neural networks, and he had made relatively outstanding achievements in both fields.
However, the problem was that his life at the Swiss National Neural Network Scientific Research Center was a bit …
Not great?
He spent ten years in the position of a researcher. Although he had an office as his own laboratory, he didn't have enough research funds or living expenses.
For a scholar who had been studying neural network algorithms and biological neural networks for decades, this was extremely unusual. Even though his research direction was a bit unpopular, his laboratory shouldn't be this shabby.
Unless …
Either he was punished by the research institute for academic misconduct, or he offended someone.
In short, Lu Zhou's conclusion was that Lu Zhou's thesis was pretty good, but he wasn't doing very well in academia.
This reminded him of a collaborator from a long time ago.
The disheartened Professor Sarrot who left Silicon Valley and Cornell University to return to his hometown of Amsterdam to teach.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Zhou spoke.
"Xiao Ai."
Xiao Ai: [Yeah? 0.0】
"Write an email for me and send it to Professor Primer's email." Lu Zhou paused for a second and said, "I want to talk to him."
…
Swiss National Neural Network Research Center.
Professor Lumiere walked out of the lecture room with a textbook under his arm. He finished his lecture with graduate students and hummed a tune as he walked toward his office.
As usual, he turned on his computer. However, just as he was about to check if there were any results from the bounty he posted, he suddenly received two unread emails from unknown addresses in his mailbox.
He opened the email with doubts in his heart, but when his eyes fell on the text, he was shocked.
There was only one sentence in the text.
[I heard that you were looking for me?]
Professor Lumiere broke out in cold sweat. He looked like he had just seen a ghost.
Someone was actually able to hack into the website he offered a reward for?
Not only did they get his real IP address and lock onto his identity, but they even got his work email?!
Although that website didn't have a deep background, it was able to avoid the eyes of the international police and engage in illegal transactions for so many years. If it didn't have any network security protection skills, it would be impossible for it to survive until now.
What's more, the users of that website were the most proficient in server attacks and loved to create trouble to show their presence …
Actually, Lumiere didn't know that for Lu Zhou, who had a quantum computer, traditional network security methods were basically no different from no encryption.
Only physically isolated databases couldn't be accessed by Xiao Ai. As for open networks, Xiao Ai could basically come and go freely. It didn't matter if there was a door or not.
The feeling of being exposed was like being stripped naked and thrown on the street.
Lumiere clicked on the second email with his trembling finger.
This time, he was stunned.
[Do you want to talk? It's about virtual reality.]
At the end of the email, there was a 20 megabyte attachment.
Lumiere looked at the attachment and hesitated for a second.
However, he remembered that the other party was able to break into the security system of the black market on the dark web. Therefore, he downloaded the attachment and double-clicked on the program.
The program started.
Just as he expected, it was something similar to a communication software.
Even though the interface was amateurish, there was no problem with audio communication.
Soon, a processed electronic voice came from the computer opposite.
"Hello, Professor Lumiere."
"Hello … Dr. Z," Lumiere said helplessly. He shrugged and said, "It seems that you have already investigated my personal information."
Lu Zhou: "I'm more willing to call it a form of reciprocity."
Lumiere: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming you … As for the reward, please believe me, I don't have any malicious intent. I just want to talk to you about your thesis."
Professor Lumiere cleared his throat and spoke.
"Actually, I've been doing research in this area, and I've made some good progress. But you know, this thing is too unpopular. Although many people are doing it, especially those Internet companies in Silicon Valley, those vampires just want to enjoy the fruits of our labor. They expect us to provide them with new ideas, but they are not willing to pay for our research. "
Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows and said, "So, you're tight on money right now?"
"Not really, actually, my research funding is quite generous."
Professor Lumiere immediately denied Lu Zhou's statement. He then said, "Do you want to come to Switzerland? I can help you find a job, a place to live, and a green card. Switzerland has the most advanced neural network research center in Europe, and I'm the … director here. You're looking at my laboratory, it's very spacious, I'm sure you'll like it — "
"Okay, Professor Lumiere, I'm not here to listen to you brag."
Professor Lumiere blushed and said, "You're right, Professor Lumiere.
"I'm not bragging, I'm telling the truth —"
Lu Zhou: "I don't care if you're telling the truth or not, I'm not interested in a research institute in the countryside, much less the director. I have my own laboratory, and I have my own funding. Do you think I need to come to Switzerland? "
"You have your own laboratory? Where is it? " Lumiere paused for a second and said, "Of course, if your conditions are good enough, I can give up my job here and go to you … Even though I'll soon be promoted to director, I'm willing to make sacrifices for the sake of science."
Lumiere had been demoted from director to director.
Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile and shake his head.
He spoke in a mocking tone.
"Not all sacrifices are worthwhile, do you know what I mean, Professor Lumiere?" "I know."
Professor Lumiere went silent for a while and shrugged. He said, "You're doubting my abilities, am I right?"
Lu Zhou didn't respond, which meant that he agreed with Lumiere.
Professor Lumiere wasn't angry. He continued to speak patiently.
"That's normal. After all, you're the Dr. Z who saved the world, and I'm just an unknown researcher … I'm sure you think so. So I suggest we talk in person. If you're willing to pay for my flight, I can — "
Lu Zhou: "There's no need for that, I'll ask you a few questions."
Lumiere immediately said, "Go ahead."
When Lu Zhou heard this confident statement, he smiled.
He cleared his throat and spoke.
"Everyone knows that the core components of neural interface virtual reality technology can be divided into three parts. One is the collection of neural signals, one is the processing of neural signals, and the last is the output to the nervous system … Which is to say, the brain can understand the 'language', which is directly transmitted to the relevant brain regions in the form of electrical signals."
Lumiere: "I'm sure this isn't something that everyone knows …"
Lu Zhou: "If you have a problem, we can talk next time."
Lumiere quickly said, "No, no, please continue."
Seeing that he admitted defeat, Lu Zhou didn't argue with him and continued to speak.
"… I won't go through the concepts one by one. Currently, I've found a good solution to the collection of neural signals and transmission of electrical signals. However, the most critical problem … is the direct output of information to the brain. There's an extremely complicated and difficult problem."
"When the brain is analyzing the neural microcurrent signals, it is difficult to ensure that every individual receives the same information from the same piece of information."
Lu Zhou explained to Professor Lumiere the principles of "brain imaging" that he told Chen Yushan.
The concept didn't involve too many sensitive issues, so there was nothing to hide.
Lu Zhou wanted to know how Lumiere, who was in the field of biological neural networks and machine neural networks, thought about this academic problem.
After hearing Dr. Z's question, Lumiere frowned and began to think.
Lu Zhou saw that Lumiere didn't respond, so he spoke.
"You don't have to give me an answer right away. In fact, I'm thinking of a solution to this problem myself. If you have any good ideas, send them to my email. "
Lumiere said, "If you want me to solve this problem, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. After all, your problem is too abstract. But if it's just an idea … "
Lu Zhou: "Do you have any good ideas?"
"A little bit …"
Lumiere nodded and spoke in a serious tone. "Why don't you think about distributed computing?"
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