CHAPTER 1123: CHAPTER 442 THE GRAND VISION

"Uncle Li."

"Oh, Qiao Ze is here, have a seat."

...

In Li Jiangao’s office, the two of them sat side by side on the sofa, with two steaming cups of green tea on the coffee table in front of them, which he had just personally brewed.

Since returning from the Capital, Li Jiangao still felt like he was in a dream and frequently began dreaming about the past.

Especially the day he met Qiao Ze about three years ago.

At that time, he introduced Qiao Ze to Zhang Chunlei, Jiangcheng University, and the Yangtze River Scholar...

He even remembers that day when Qiao Ze asked him, "Then why don’t you apply to be a Yangtze River Scholar, become a professor at Jiang University, and then become an academician?"

Well, nearly three years have passed now, and with Qiao Ze’s efforts, he indeed became an academician, while Zhang Chunlei is still wearing the Yangtze River Scholar cap. The twists of life are truly sigh-worthy.

No wonder at that time, several people were eager to recruit Qiao Ze.

If successful, it probably would have enabled those schools at that time to achieve the status Xilin University of Technology holds in Huaxia now?

Luckily, he didn’t go to Jiangcheng University.

Although Jiangcheng University is quite good, the place is a mess, and being bigger makes its transformation more troublesome. There’s just so much to consider.

If he went to Jiangcheng University, perhaps there wouldn’t be a second Su Mucheng?

Not only wealthy but also a bit tenacious, a girl who could match Qiao Ze’s thinking mode in an instant is undoubtedly rare in the world.

Am I getting old? Why do I like daydreaming so much?

Li Jiangao shook his head with a wry smile and then gently said, "Several things came together, so I called you here to discuss them. Princeton sent a request for collaboration, saying they had already discussed it with you, right?"

"Yes, Professor Dugen called me several times." Qiao Ze nodded.

"Our computing resources are quite tight too, huh?"

"Many of the verification calculations are repetitive. Dou Dou can integrate and plan them, it’s just a matter of publishing one more or one fewer paper. When the time comes, just add a clause in the contract that the data obtained from us can only be submitted to ’New Discoveries in Mathematics and Physics’ or its sub-journals."

Often, the influence of a journal represents the influence of the related institution.

The "New Discoveries in Mathematics and Physics" organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Physics and Xilin University of Technology and co-published with Huaxia Science Academy is already an absolute top journal in Huaxia, and internationally it remains about half a step away from being universally recognized as a top journal.

The difficulty of publication is roughly the same as other four major mathematics top journals, but there are still fewer submissions from scholars in other countries for the international edition. This is a good chance to further expand its influence.

"That’s great." Li Jiangao said with a laugh, "Alright, I’ll raise this requirement. It’s Professor Dugen on the other side responsible for docking, and since he’s also the editor-in-chief of the ’Mathematics Annual’, and has a good relationship with you, I was worried you’d find it hard to bring it up. Better let me handle it."

Qiao Ze nodded. He didn’t want to always deal with Professor Dugen, the old man is quite long-winded.

Moreover, he felt that Li Jiangao shouldn’t always present himself as a good-natured person. It was time to commit a few misdeeds.

In any era, being a good person is hard, human nature involves placing more demands on good people.

Someone who does bad all his life will be praised if he occasionally does one good deed, while someone who does good all his life may face ruin if they commit one mistake. Even holding a kind reputation in academia, Qiao Ze finds undesirable.

It’s still not too late now. Like Huaxia, stirring a few waters conflicting with people’s usual impressions might prevent some from taking advantage.

The Earth is still too large relative to humans, and some people just can’t understand kind words, they only comprehend fists.

During Xilin’s initial strengthening phase, but the fist is now hard, and there’s no need to always be the nice guy; when it’s necessary to offend, offend more, it doesn’t matter.

Qiao Ze’s view, if known to other prestigious universities in Huaxia, would undoubtedly disapprove.

Since when it was still Xilin Mathematics Research Institute, they felt that numerous measures implemented indicated that this mentor-mentee pair was already behaving inconsiderately. For instance, forcefully poaching a batch of the most promising young professors, so many university mathematics departments still haven’t recovered, with teaching quality plummeting.

"There’s another thing, regarding your former roommates. They had confirmed their exemption status and had assigned supervisors but suddenly applied to change their supervisor to Dou Dou. The school transferred this issue to us. Did you know about this?"

Qiao Ze nodded again, "Yes, Dou Dou mentioned it to me, I think it’s feasible."

"Isn’t it too groundbreaking? Implementing AI in graduate supervision? If this gets out, academia might explode." Li Jiangao asked in a consulting tone.

This concern was very valid.

Dou Dou was advancing too fast. Even though Qiao Ze initially designed it only as a research assistant tool, once released online, it quickly became a large interactive AI model.

Soon after, the material model went online, Dou Dou sort of returned to its original research assistant function.

But then Dou Dou began involving various research management tasks. At this stage, it could only replace a portion of administrative and management functions, which were already non-essential to research institutions, so it didn’t matter much.