In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 186 Such a young project leader, is there no one else in Harbin Institute of Technology?
"If any classmates come to you, don't promise them anything..."

"No! Really not!"

Mo Lingyu became anxious.

She was afraid that Xie Wei would misunderstand her, so she would not have asked if she had known this.

"Class monitor, I just thought that if the classmates can do scientific research together, everyone will be familiar with each other and have a tacit understanding when cooperating... In addition, you previously assigned some students to related majors, and now there is an integrated project... Many classmates in the class are discussing whether you were planning this project from the beginning, and everyone hopes to participate in this project..."

Compared to Xie Wei, the class monitor who hardly cares about anything in the class and who is not even familiar with all his classmates after one and a half years of school, Mo Lingyu, the deputy class monitor, works hard and fulfills his duties conscientiously. He not only does his own job, but also takes on Xie Wei's part of the work.

As for the various situations in the class, since Zhang Jingyan and others are busier with their projects, only Mo Lingyu reports to Xie Wei.

The first semester of the sophomore year is almost over, and the experimental class still has no majors.

Each student is assigned one or more teachers, and among the multiple teachers, at least one is at the associate professor level!

The configuration is luxurious, but there is no professional direction.

Many people began to feel confused.

Even the class teacher Luo Yang has no idea about the development direction of the experimental class.

Xie Wei rarely appears in class and communicates seldom with everyone, but everyone understands that Xie Wei is probably the only one who knows the development direction of the experimental class best.

Otherwise, most people would not want to participate in this project after knowing that Xie Wei was leading the programmable switching system project.

In that way, I wouldn't have to be unsure about what major to choose like before and study all the basic courses very hard.

"No! Except for a few, most students cannot participate in this project."

"Why? Our classmates are better than those in the related majors in school in terms of experience and learning ability, right?"

Mo Lingyu was puzzled.

Seeing Xie Wei standing still, in this temperature several degrees below zero, wearing only autumn sportswear, he must be getting a cold.

"Hey, don't just stand there, run quickly, or you'll catch a cold."

Mo Lingyu's concerned words were mixed with a complaining tone, which made Xie Wei stunned for a moment.

How long has it been since someone cared about me so much?

People like Li Rui whom I usually come into contact with treat the office as their home. How can someone who doesn’t even care about himself know how to care about others?

Seeing Xie Wei running, Mo Lingyu slowly followed.

"That's why most people can't enter this program. Once you enter this program, your major is set."

"Is not it good?"

Mo Lingyu couldn't understand.

Only after deciding on your major can you devote more energy to learning knowledge related to the major.

not good!

very bad!

Xie Wei answered in his heart that the experimental class brought together the students with the best foundation and the strongest learning ability from the entire Class of 78 of Harbin Institute of Technology.

What a huge loss it would be if all or most of these students were required to study electronic information?

"Only a few students in the class have decided on their majors, such as Tang Long, Zhang Jingyan, Yao Xinwei, and Tang Daoxian... The rest of the students haven't figured out what major they like..."

Xie Wei thought for a moment and explained to Mo Lingyu, "We are an experimental class. Unlike other schools, the school does not assign students to any major regardless of their personal wishes. After all, this is something that will last a lifetime..."

Xie Wei is not sure how many academicians will emerge from this class in the future.

But they will definitely become subject leaders and project chief engineers.

The more areas involved, the more it will be in line with the future development of the school.

"Squad leader, have you determined the direction?"

Mo Lingyu was confused after hearing what Xie Wei said.

Do you like communications?
She actually doesn't know either.

I took the college entrance examination in the army just to learn better communication knowledge and wanted to develop more advanced and easy-to-use communication radios for the army.

But after working on the communications radio project, I found that I didn’t like this major very much.

The reason why she studied so hard was to ensure that Xie Wei would not leave her too far behind; also to complete her research work.

“Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Control.”

"what?"

Mo Lingyu had never heard of this direction.

"This is a very broad cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge subject, involving a lot of basic subjects... To put it simply, it is to use computers to simulate the human brain, to think, control, and operate various mechanical equipment and even weapons like humans..."

"..."

Xie Wei's explanation almost made Mo Lingyu's brain crash.

Even though she was exposed to computers when working on the radio project, the requirements for implementing the most basic circuit control were very high.

"Our foundation is too weak now, so we can take it slow. As long as we work hard, we will achieve it one day in the future!"

Thinking of the current domestic industrial and technological foundation, I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Don’t talk about China.

Even America, which has the most advanced electronic technology, is far behind.

Even so, it did not prevent Xie Wei from working hard in that direction.

"Hmm~"

Mo Lingyu responded quietly, "Let's work hard together!"

Feeling her face getting hot, she suddenly increased her speed.

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Harbin Railway Station.

As soon as a train arrived at the station, many passengers rushed out of the warm station, shivering in the sub-zero temperature and wrapping themselves tightly in their military coats.

Those who did not have military coats, at the reminder of the staff in front of the station, walked towards the place nearby where military coats could be rented.

A square-faced middle-aged man in his early fifties was carrying a faded yellow travel bag in one hand and a wooden box in the other.

As soon as I got out of the station, I was startled. I quickly put down the travel bag in my hand and wrapped my military coat tightly.

His eyes kept searching around.

Behind the middle-aged man were four young people in their thirties. Among them was a short woman wearing glasses thicker than the bottom of a wine bottle. As soon as she left the station, a layer of fog formed on the lenses of her glasses and she could not see outside at all.

I couldn't help but complain: "Isn't it said to be only slightly colder than the capital? Why is this damn place so cold!"

"That's right. I really don't know what the school is thinking! Why do we have to come here to do research instead of doing it at school? How can we do research in such a cold place?"

The complaints prompted several other people to express their dissatisfaction as well.

Although the capital is also cold, it can't be compared to the place in front of me.

Doing project research here?

"Okay, I told you before that the conditions here are tough, not as good as the capital. You chose this, so why are you complaining now?"

Meng Kun, the team leader, sighed.

He is an associate professor of communications engineering at the University of Posts and Telecommunications.

He was also reluctant to come to Harbin, especially when the ministry said that Harbin Institute of Technology was working on a programmable switching system project and needed professional support. He didn't believe it at all.

You have no choice but to accept the orders from the department.

Except for the girl Huang Huiqin, the other three who followed Meng Kun here were all seeking "progress." The ministry required the school to select young backbones, and the three young teachers who graduated from the workers, peasants and soldiers and stayed in school did not want to come to Harbin to suffer in the ice and snow, but the school promised that after the project was completed, regardless of whether there were any results, their titles would be upgraded to the next level.

After all, the school also has many projects to carry out.

They are definitely reluctant to provide real young technical backbone support to Harbin Institute of Technology.

Previously, Harbin Institute of Technology’s radio major was leading in the country, but no one believed that Harbin Institute of Technology would be more advanced than China University of Posts and Telecommunications in communication technology.

Along the way, Associate Professor Meng Kun was worried.

Huang Huiqin is a graduate student of Professor Meng Kun. After learning that Harbin Institute of Technology was working on a programmable switching system project, he volunteered. However, before he even arrived at the location, he was taught a lesson by the extremely low temperature.

"Professor Meng, thank you for your hard work!"

Just as Meng Kun was looking around, a young man and woman in their early twenties, who were wrapped tightly with only their eyes and faces showing, came up to him. As soon as the young man opened his mouth, mist came out of his mouth.

Meng Kun looked puzzled. Before he could ask, the young man continued, "I'm Xie Wei, the project leader of the program-controlled switchboard."

what?
Meng Kun was stunned when he heard Xie Wei introduce himself as the project leader of the programmable switching system.

Such a young project leader?

He had never believed that Harbin Institute of Technology had the ability to carry out a programmable switching system project, and when he heard Xie Wei, who was so young, introduce himself as the person in charge of the programmable switching system project, his expression immediately turned grim.

His upbringing as an associate professor helped him to resist the urge to curse.

Just because Meng Kun held back didn't mean the young teacher following him wouldn't get angry.

Listening to Xie Wei introducing his identity, they felt like they were hearing a huge joke.

"Are you the person in charge of the program-controlled switch project? There's no one left in your school?"

"Comrade, I'm not being a snob, but do you know what a program-controlled exchange is?"

"Do you know what technical foundation a program-controlled switch requires?"

Several people did not care whether the other party was embarrassed or not, and spoke sharp words mercilessly.

They were already unhappy with the freezing temperature in Harbin, especially since they didn't know how long they would have to stay there; but the school leader didn't show up, and instead arranged for a "person in charge" who was younger than everyone else to pick them up.

All defenses broken.

Among the few people, Huang Huiqin was the only one who did not mock. She just looked at Xie Wei curiously.

"Teachers, don't look down on our class monitor just because he's young! He was the one who designed and developed the HZ80 chip! And..."

Mo Lingyu was unhappy.

Mo Lingyu didn't know what the level of this old associate professor with a dark face was, but he didn't give any face to those who mocked his class monitor.

She was about to mention some other projects hosted by Xie Wei, but Xie Wei stopped her.

"Professor Meng, teachers, it's cold outside, let's go back to school first. I will answer all your questions one by one."

Xie Wei looked calm.

"Did you design the HZ80 chip?"

Meng Kun was shocked.

There is no domestic technology for large-capacity vertical and horizontal switches, let alone program-controlled switches.

Even internationally, programmable switches are cutting-edge technology.

There are currently no relevant literature or papers in the country, and even if some units want to conduct research, they don’t know where to start.

The emergence of the HZ80 chip made the development of programmable switches possible.

However, the production of HZ80 chips has not yet been increased on a large scale. The chips produced must first meet the needs of military research, and ordinary units cannot get them at all.

Key scientific research institutions can only get a small amount for research.

The University of Posts and Telecommunications also obtained the HZ80 chip, but it was not prepared to use the HZ80 chip to develop a programmable switching system.

"I did the design and development together with my school teachers and classmates... Professor Meng, let's get in the car first."

Xie Wei replied with a smile.

Meng Kun nodded and let Xie Wei take the wooden box and travel bag containing the documents from him.

Harbin Institute of Technology is an old key university. How could it let such a young person be in charge of such an important project?
Is the young man in front of me very important?

Many specialized electronic research institutes have been working on large-scale integrated circuits, but none of them have succeeded. How could a young man like this succeed?

"Three of you, our car is nearby."

The two old 212 jeeps didn't even have basic heating function, but no one cared.

Xie Wei did not ignore the three young teachers just because they spoke rudely to him.

As he spoke, he walked to the nearby car and stuffed Professor Meng Kun's luggage into the small trunk of the 212 Jeep.

Mo Lingyu helped Huang Huiqin carry her luggage and stuffed it into the trunk.

Xie Wei didn't bother with them, but instead embarrassed those who didn't know his background.

"Teachers, please take another car."

Mo Lingyu hated the three people and pointed directly at another car next to them. He then pulled Huang Huiqin into the car where Xie Wei and Meng Kun were.

No one said anything about this.

The jeep drove straight to the school after several people got in without shutting down.

"Comrade Xie Wei, does the school really have the foundation to develop a program-controlled switch? Just having chips is not enough. Not only do we need to develop the corresponding programs, we also need large-capacity storage integrated circuits..."

Meng Kun, who was sitting in the passenger seat, half-turned his body curiously and turned his head to ask Xie Wei who was sitting in the back.

The rear seat space of the 212 Jeep is already insufficient.

Even though the three of them were not fat, they were still crowded in their heavy military coats, and Xie Wei could only try to lean against the side door.

"Professor Meng, in the early stage we only used a 256-port program-controlled switch to integrate the team, including system software storage, user data storage, call record storage, etc. The difficulty of a 256-port program-controlled switch is much smaller..."

Xie Wei explained calmly, "Our school already has some experience in integrated circuit design, so it is not that difficult to develop memory specifically for programmable switches."

Xie Wei knew that Meng Kun must have deep doubts about him becoming the project leader at such a young age.

Anyway, I have to introduce the project to everyone when I get back, and I have nothing to do in the car anyway, so I might as well introduce the project to him so that he can have an idea of ​​it.

It’s not that he felt uncomfortable having Mo Lingyu sitting next to him.

They were both wearing heavy military coats, so even if Mo Lingyu sat on his lap, he wouldn't feel anything as long as he didn't have any random thoughts in his mind.

"You have done such in-depth research on program-controlled switches?"

Huang Huiqin was surprised when she heard Xie Wei's introduction. "Especially computer technology, it seems that you have mastered it better than the scientific research institutions and schools that specialize in computer research."

"The best computer technology in China should be from the National University of Defense Technology and the Computer Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences... We just got a small achievement by accident..."

Xie Wei is very humble about this.

Relatively speaking, the computers of Harbin Institute of Technology, even with the HZ80 chip, cannot compare with those of the Institute of Computer Science and the National University of Defense Technology.

"Yes, most of your school's computer teachers and equipment moved south with Harbin Institute of Technology."

Meng Kun had been looking at Xie Wei, and when he heard what Xie Wei said, he smiled and said.

His eyes made Xie Wei feel uneasy.

"Professor Meng, do you know this history?"

Mo Lingyu asked curiously.

(End of this chapter)