The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 123: More Than Just a Name
No matter what, Silvio Micali's sudden question still caught Xiao Yi off guard.

After all, no one told him that in addition to pure mathematicians, this report also involved computer scientists like this.

So what he just talked about are all in the field of pure mathematics.

If he had known that there was a computer scholar here, he would definitely have briefly talked about its application in cryptography, so that everyone could benefit.

Of course, although he was stunned for a while, he soon started thinking about Mikali's question.

I have to admit that what the other party proposed is very interesting.

Expand Xiao's technology and apply it directly to blockchain encryption?

This gave him some inspiration for building blockchain in the future.

"Hello, Professor Mikali, um..." He greeted her first, and then said, "This idea you proposed is indeed very interesting."

"Can I know more about your blockchain, which is the design concept of Algorand?"

"Haha, of course no problem." Mikali nodded: "Algorand's main goal is to solve the blockchain's [trilemma]. Do you know this problem?"

"I know." Xiao Yi nodded: "That is, any blockchain system can have at most two of the three ideal properties, namely any two of decentralization, scalability and security."

During this period, he has done a lot of research on blockchain, including the blockchain trilemma. This dilemma is similar to the trilemma in international economics, but because it occurs on the blockchain, it is slightly different in nature.

Micali smiled and said, “Yes, that’s right, so my design idea is to use the proof-of-stake principle in the first stage, which is the block proposal stage, and use the Byzantine agreement to vote on the proposed blocks in the second stage, the block finalization stage.”

“In the Algorand consensus algorithm, the membership of both committees changes every time a phase is run…”

Micali began to share his ideas with Xiao Yi, and Xiao Yi also began to think.

Since he also plans to build a blockchain, it would obviously be helpful for his subsequent construction if someone else could pass on their experience to him.

However, as the two of them were communicating, the other people in the meeting room became increasingly restless.

Those mathematical scholars began to ask around, what kind of paper Xiao Yi had published a few days ago that could have attracted the attention of such a Turing Award winner.

Silvio Micali, in particular, won the Turing Award for his contributions to information security and cryptography.

This is really surprising.

However, the more they asked and the more they understood, the more they realized what an extraordinary thing Xiao Yi had done.

Wow, it turns out that the issue of the gradually decreasing security of the RSA encryption system, which has been discussed in the academic community for years, has been quietly resolved in the past few days?

And the person who solved the problem was Xiao Yi?
It's really outrageous!

Of course, this is the information asymmetry between different professions.

For scholars in the mathematical community, this problem does seem to have been solved quietly, but in fact it has attracted the attention of quite a lot of people in the computer field.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many computer scholars coming to the scene.

After continuous communication, the mathematicians realized that there were so many computer scientists among the audience, probably several hundred people.

For a moment, it amazed them even more.

What Xiao Yi created caused such a huge sensation in the computer field!
At the same time, in the row of seats where Terence Tao and Maynard sat, both of them shook their heads helplessly as they watched the scene in front of them.

Tao said with emotion: "I really didn't expect that the computer science majors would react so quickly. They came to me directly in just a few days."

"He even came directly to our Joint Mathematics Conference." Maynard also expressed his feelings.

As early as when Xiao Yi showed them the results, they already knew how important that result was.

However, the reactions of these computer scholars still surprised them a little.

"Forget it, why bother? Anyway, according to the news released by the World Bank, it has basically been confirmed that it is our plan." Tao Zhexuan smiled and said, "This time Xiao Yi led us to make a lot of money."

"Indeed." Maynard nodded.

After their proposal was submitted, the World Bank announced the final result within a few days. Unsurprisingly, their proposal had been accepted by the World Bank.

The whole project ends here. After all, there is no need to continue wasting time. Now that we have a solution, we can just use it.

As for how the other groups reacted when they learned the news, they didn't know, but in the past few days, they received a lot of calls from other groups with "cordial" greetings.

Even though they maintained basic friendliness when communicating on the phone, they could both hear the gnashing of teeth in each other's tone.

But it doesn’t matter anymore.

After all, why bother about these things when you can get a $1000 million bonus right away?
Even according to the final distribution, they can only get more than 100 million, but this is still a huge sum of money for them.

After all, there really isn't that much money to be made for pure mathematicians.

……

On the stage, Xiao Yi and Professor Micali had an in-depth discussion, and they both gained a lot.

Xiao Yi gained experience in blockchain construction from Micali, while Micali learned more about Xiao's application of cryptography from Xiao Yi.

Great harvest.

“Thank you very much for your answer!”

Finally, Micali expressed his gratitude.

Xiao Yi also smiled and nodded: "I am also very grateful for the knowledge you shared with me."

Until now, he still didn't know that the other party was actually a Turing Award winner, but just through such communication, he could see that the other party was very knowledgeable.

This professor is very capable, especially in mathematics.

After spending some time with Professor Kleinlock, he wondered if computer scientists all had poor mathematical skills?
But now it seems that Professor Kleinlock is just an isolated case, right?
cough cough...

He didn't look down on Kleinlock. After all, he could understand that he was getting older and his math skills were declining. "Well, now, answer the next question."

The first question has been answered, and now it’s time for the second question.

Then, a lot of hands were raised in the audience, which made him dizzy.

Finally, he picked out one person, and unexpectedly, it turned out to be another computer scholar!
"Mr. Xiao, what I want to ask is, since Xiao's development can be applied to RSA, is it also feasible to apply it to ECC?"

Okay, problems in the computer field are just problems in the computer field.

Anyway, we still have to follow the principles of mathematics.

Then Xiao Yi said: "It is actually feasible, but we need to slightly change the form of Xiao's unfolding. Um... I will simply demonstrate it to you on the blackboard."

Then he turned around and started demonstrating on the blackboard.

However, his "simple demonstration" made the questioner's expression freeze again.

Ha ha……

Your demonstration is really [simple] enough...

Just like that, after Xiao Yi finished his demonstration, he replied: "In the end, we can draw a conclusion. Although it is feasible, the effect is far worse than RSA, and it makes the technical difficulty of ECC higher, so I do not recommend using this method."

"Okay, thank you." The listener had to pretend that he understood and nodded, then took a picture of the steps Xiao Yi wrote, intending to study them carefully after returning.

Most other computer scientists interested in this problem do the same.

As for admitting that I'm not good at math...

Forget it, let’s save some face.

Next, Xiao Yi continued to answer questions from other questioners, and he finally touched upon some questions raised by mathematicians.

Ok……

Sure enough, it was a math problem, which made him even more excited.
As for those problems in the computer field, although they are also very interesting, they cannot arouse his interest as much as those mathematical problems.

Finally, time had unknowingly exceeded the original 45 minutes and even gradually reached an hour.

It was not until Hales Carl signaled to Xiao Yi that he remembered that the time was up.

Wow, half an hour of report and half an hour of answering questions.

Seeing that there were still many raised hands in the audience, he could only spread his hands and said, "Sorry, everyone, today's report has seriously exceeded the time limit."

"So, let's just stop here."

After hearing Xiao Yi's words, the scholars who raised their hands could only put down their hands helplessly, feeling very sorry in their hearts.

As for the questions that Xiao Yi just answered, if you study them carefully after you go back, you might be able to publish a paper on them.

It really makes money for those who are clicked.

Of course, no matter what, Xiao Yi's report also brought certain benefits to everyone.

Even the students are the same.

After all, Xiao's expansion is really a very easy method to understand, as long as they have enough understanding of complex analysis.

So, as the first person started clapping, others were also inspired and started clapping.

Everyone gave Xiao Yi the warmest applause with a grateful heart.

……

In a certain row of seats, the two invited speakers who gave reports in the afternoon were clapping and looking at Xiao Yi with eyes full of admiration.

If before the report they were envious of Xiao Yi's treatment of having more than 2,000 people in attendance, now they could only admire him.

"Anyway... I'm convinced. This is what he deserves."

"Yes! That's what he deserves. Who else can give such a report that can inspire everyone like him?"

"I have already thought about my next topic, maybe I can publish a top paper."

"Then good luck to you!"

……

"how?"

Brian Winston turned and looked at the two computer industry giants next to him.

"It lives up to its reputation," said Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's senior vice president of knowledge and information.

“No.” Silvio Micali shook his head and said, “It’s more like the name.”

"You only need to communicate with him to feel the depth and breadth of his thinking."

"The reputation spread outside is even less than his actual ability."

Upon hearing the Turing Award winner's comments, the two corporate executives nearby looked at each other.

"Maybe I should ask him if he wants to join Google."

Raghavan said.

Winston shrugged. "Good luck."

(End of this chapter)