Coquettish Rebirth

Chapter [-] Negroponte——

Chapter [-] Negroponte

Escorted by Ye Jing, Jia Hongjian and Ding Sanshi came to a hotel in downtown Boston.This hotel is not bad, because the entire downtown area of ​​Boston is built on a peninsula, and this hotel can also see the sea view next to it.But what made Jia Hongjian depressed was that this American hotel had no internet access!In his previous life, he had heard that in American hotels, there is only free wifi available in the lobby, and there is absolutely no free internet access in the room.But obviously Jia Hongjian obviously found that there is no internet in the hall...

On the second day, Jia Hongjian left Ding Sanshi in the hotel and went to Mit to look for Ye Jing.He walked all the way to the computer department, but when he was still a hundred and ten meters away from the computer department, Jia Hongjian was suddenly startled!He saw a strange building - in the middle of a row of four or five-story normal teaching buildings, suddenly there was a distorted building that looked like an origami building that had been damaged by children.The doorway on the first floor of this building protrudes obliquely, the tops of the fourth and fifth floors hang down crookedly, and the whole building is painted white, it really looks like origami!

This strange building is the building of the computer department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.After entering this building curiously, Jia Hongjian found that the inside of this building was similar to ordinary buildings.After going up to the second floor and waiting outside a lecture hall for a while, it was time for get out of class to end.As soon as he heard the professor inside say that the class was over, Jia Hongjian saw Ye Jing carrying a small bag and hurried out.

"Aren't you from the School of New Media? Why did you come to the Department of Computer Science?" Jia Hongjian asked Ye Jing curiously.At this time, the eccentric and beautiful girl said with a smile, "Our college and the computer department share the teaching building." Ye Jing just finished answering, and asked Jia Hongjian with great concern, "Are you jet-lagged? How about it? Are you still sleepy?"

Tsk tsk, looking at Ye Jing, she is already a beautiful girl, and she is still Bai Fumei, but it is so rare to be so considerate and lovely!Jia Hongjian chuckled, expressing that his young body was running without pressure.

"By the way, why do you want to study the Internet again now? What kind of spider software is this research used for?" Ye Jing and Jia Hongjian asked curiously as they walked out slowly. "Well, this spider software is used to crawl the information of those sites on the Internet. The reason why it is named spider software is to use various hyperlinks on the Internet to crawl. For example, there is a list of your website on my website. A hyperlink to a page, and then this small software will run along the hyperlink to that webpage of your website, and then your webpage must have links to other pages of your website, so it will follow all the links in your website along the way. All the texts have been collected, and then you can follow the hyperlinks on your website to crawl to other people's websites..." Jia Hongjian tried to explain in a relatively easy-to-understand way.

"But why do you want to make this kind of software? Just to crawl around and steal other people's information?" Ye Jing obviously misunderstood Jia Hongjian's purpose. "No, it's for retrieving information. For example, if you want to open a store and want to know the quotations of various domestic commodity dealers, if those dealers put their quotations on their websites, you don't even have to go out. , you don’t even need to make a phone call, just use our software to search for everyone’s quotations?”

Just after Jia Hongjian finished saying this sentence, when Ye Jing was still wide-eyed in surprise, someone behind him asked in strange Chinese: "Excuse me, may I bother you?" Jia Hongjian Turning around gradually, I saw a well-mannered old man with gray hair, wearing glasses, standing behind him and Ye Jing.It seems that it should be what the old man asked just now. When Jia Hongjian was surprised that there were people who could speak Chinese in the mit of this era, he heard Ye Jing who was next to him ask in surprise in English: "Negroponte professor?"

So this old man is Ye Jing's professor?Could it be the professor of that class just now?Just when Jia Hongjian was surprised, the so-called Professor Negroponte smiled and asked Jia Hongjian gently: "Men, I'm sorry, I accidentally overheard your words just now. Conversation, no offense intended, I did not intend to eavesdrop, but I am very interested in the idea of ​​spider software you mentioned, I wonder if we can find a place to talk in detail?"

Although the old man's Chinese grammar is a bit strange, he seems to only know how to use "?"You must know that his software has not registered a patent yet!What if the old man was as much of a jerk as Twitter boss Mark Zuckerberg and stole his idea?

The old man saw the obvious guarded look on Jia Hongjian's face, and immediately explained: "Hi, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Nicholas Negroponte, and I am a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Research Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I am the leader of the Institute. I founded a magazine called... "Agazine" in 1992. In each issue, I published some ideas about the future computer world. I am very interested in what you just said. I can follow Shall I talk? If possible, we can even sign a contract. Unless I get your consent, I will never disclose the specific core content of this conversation to others, and I will not enter the Internet industry myself..."

It sounds like this old man is really a pedant, as if he is really interested in pure academics. Jia Hongjian lowered his guard a little. He said, "Then let's make an appointment tomorrow? Now the two of us are going out. Dating……"

"Okay, okay, no problem! This is my card!" The old man excitedly pulled out his business card and gave it to Jia Hongjian. "Who is going on a date with you?" Ye Jing protested suddenly.

After leaving the building of the Department of Computer Science, Ye Jing turned her head and asked Jia Hongjian, "Are you really going to talk to Professor Negroponte?" "Well, let's talk. What is the old man's background?" Jia Hongjian asked . "It seems that he is of Greek descent, a New Yorker, and his family seems to be a shipowner or something. Anyway, he is quite rich. He is a graduate student on our mit. When he was a graduate student, he developed computer-aided design software, which seems to be called for short. cad..." Ye Jing raised her head and recalled.

Hearing this, Jia Hongjian was a little surprised at the time. It turns out that Professor Negroponte, who has an awkward name, is such a powerful person?Jia Hongjian only knew that this CAD software was invented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 60s, but he really didn't know that it was written by Professor Nicholas Negroponte when he was a graduate student!

"Later, he stayed in school after graduating from graduate school, but he was still a visiting professor at Yale University, University of Michigan, and University of California, Berkeley. It seems that he has been studying human-computer interaction all these years." Ye Jing probably Talk about the life of Professor Negroponte.

Listening to the professor's biography, Jia Hongjian suddenly felt that the professor's name seemed so familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it before. "Okay, I've figured it out. I'll think about what I can tell him and what I can't tell him tomorrow."

Jia Hongjian said today that he was going on a date with Ye Jing, but in fact he went to a local telecommunications service provider in Boston to sign an agreement for dial-up Internet access.When she came back after the spring break, Ye Jing moved out to rent an apartment alone in order to have better conversations with Jia Hongjian on the phone. In this way, she could use her apartment to handle things online.

The next day, Jia Hongjian and Ye Jing came to a relatively quiet small coffee shop not far from mit campus.Professor Negroponte was already waiting for Jia Hongjian inside. When Jia Hongjian just sat down, Professor Negroponte took out a piece of paper with many words printed on it and put it on Jia Hongjian's table. In front of Hung Chien.Jia Hongjian looked down, and it turned out that this was a confidentiality agreement!It is said that after hearing Jia Hongjian's ideas about some software, Professor Negroponte was not allowed to disclose the core design ideas of these software to the world, at most he could only mention a few individual functions... Anyway, it is a mess that adds up That is to say, Jia Hongjian could shut the professor's mouth without paying.

Hey!This professor is quite a gentleman!Looking at the name that the professor had already signed on the contract, Jia Hongjian didn't hesitate, signed his name and started chatting. "My name is Jia Hongjian. I'm the son of the president of China Huaxia High-tech shtc, and also the deputy general manager. The idea of ​​the spider software I mentioned is actually a search engine on the Internet..."

"Search...engine?" Professor Negroponte asked a bit confused. "Yes, it is actually a webpage. Behind this webpage is the support of our entire database and software library. Ordinary consumers only need to log in to our webpage and enter the keywords they want to search for, so that our server will send the information from Compare the information captured from the entire network, and then release all the hyperlinks to the pages that meet the requirements..."

Listening to Jia Hongjian's introduction, Professor Negroponte's eyes slowly widened!Although he already felt that the future world would definitely become an Internet world, he never thought that such a thing could exist!If there is such a search engine, the speed of obtaining information for ordinary people will be countless times faster!You can even get countless times more information!In the past, when a person bought a physical book, he could at most read it by himself, or exchange it with a friend, but according to Jia Hongjian, he could obtain information about countless books at the same time on the Internet!

At the same time, in the doctoral dormitory of Stanford University, a doctoral student named Zhiyuan Yang was writing his doctoral thesis.There are too many and complicated materials to write a doctoral dissertation, which made Yang Zhiyuan very unhappy. He began to think about whether to create a website or a webpage, make a brief introduction of the websites and materials he had browsed, and then put the link in the In his own webpage, at least in the future, it will not be so troublesome for the younger students to find information.He even thought of what to call his web page—yahoo!

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