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Ning Wei was half lying on the bed, studying the meeting agenda.

Artificial intelligence has indeed become the biggest trend in this era, which can be seen from the theme of the special guests invited to this conference.

A total of five guest reports on the first day were almost all related to artificial intelligence. Two of them were based on deep learning, one was based on breakthroughs in random algorithms, and one was about swarm intelligence algorithms to solve optimization problems. The remaining One is his turbulence algorithm.

As for the various reports on the second day, there were even more reports. They were spread across various conference rooms in the hotel. Participants of the conference could choose topics of interest to them and participate in reports in different research directions.

As he watched, he felt sleepy. Ning Wei closed his eyes and leaned on the bed, falling into a deep sleep.

…

He slept in a hazy state, and when Ning Wei woke up, he heard the sound of the TV coming from the living room, which was slightly noisy.

When I got up, I saw Yu Xingwei leisurely leaning on the sofa and watching TV.

"When did you wake up?"

"About ten minutes ago, Feng Shaojie called me just now and said that Professor Shen would come to see us at 5:30, so I got up first. Seeing that you were sleeping soundly, I planned to call you in ten minutes."

"Oh!" Ning Wei nodded. He could probably imagine how busy Professor Shen, one of the conveners of this meeting, would be the day before the official opening of the meeting, so he quickly rushed into the bathroom and started washing up.

"what time is it?"

"There's still five minutes left."

"Oh!" Ning Wei looked out the window, the sky was still bright.

I'm a little hungry, but fortunately the feeling of hunger is not strong.

So he sat on the sofa and watched TV with Yu Xingwei.

The TV is playing a CNN program, The Tonight Show with Piers Morgan.

This was probably a less serious news interpretation column. When Ning Wei sat down, the man on the TV was complaining crazily about the recent speech of a senior American official, saying that the senior American official would not go to Hollywood to compete for the movie star. But it’s a pity to stay in the White House and blow off the air conditioner. The dog’s acting skills in Eight Kilometers are not as good as his. The whole world owes him a statuette...

The exaggerated tone, serious expression and waving gestures make it look very immersive.

Of course, what is even more exaggerated is that this is content broadcast by a TV station that broadcasts so-called serious news almost around the clock.

Ning Wei and Yu Xingwei looked at each other silently. Sure enough, this was very beautiful.

Time passed with the talk show boss's complaints, and the doorbell rang from outside the door.

"Here we come." Ning Wei stood up, walked to the door and opened it.

Opening the door, Ning Wei saw Professor Shen for the first time, whom Lu Changbin had heard about many times.

He seems to be slightly younger than Director Lu. He wears a pair of black-framed glasses, his eyebrows are slightly raised, and his thin lips are pursed, making him look very serious. The decent black striped formal suit adds to this seriousness. Magnified exponentially.

Feng Shaojie, who was standing behind him, also changed into a gray suit. He no longer had the flutter and jumpiness when he was alone with them, and looked focused and calm.

However, when he opened the door, his calm look lasted less than a second. This guy blinked at Ning Wei from behind Professor Shen, his true temperament revealed.

"Hello, Professor Shen, please come in."

Ning Wei said hello honestly.

"Hello, Professor Shen!" In the room, Yu Xingwei had already stood up and said hello.

He subconsciously wanted to make tea, but suddenly remembered that there was no such thing as tea in the room, so he went to get two bottles of water.

"You are Ning Wei, it's almost the same as in the video. You are Xiao Yu, right? Lao He often praises you on the phone, saying that you are the student he has had for so many years, the one who best embodies the word "great wisdom and foolishness". Yu Xingwei, Professor Shen showed a smile on his face and commented.

Looking at what he said, Yu Xingwei didn't know if he was praising him or hurting him. He could only stand there and smile innocently.

Well, it's more like being wise and foolish.

"Everyone, sit down. We are all our own people, so there is no need to be restrained. Speaking of which, Professor Lu and I have been friends for nearly twenty years. We were both studying abroad at UC Berkeley at that time, but our research directions were different. I still remember that time The topic that Professor Lu studied after returning to China is the surface reconstruction algorithm for massive scattered points."

"Don't underestimate this research direction. You must know that it was only 2000, and computer technology was not as mature as it is now. Especially the domestic Internet industry was still in its infancy, so this research direction was already extremely important at the time. It’s a cutting-edge topic.”

"Including the measurement modeling currently used by many high-precision enterprises in China, as well as applications in the field of computer vision, etc., the basis is the theory that your Professor Lu studied at that time."

Shen Zheqing's words brought the relationship between several people closer, and Ning Wei was deeply touched.

As expected, those who can be elected as academicians of the National Academy of Sciences are all outstanding people.

It’s just that times are changing too fast, especially in the computer field, which has developed too fast in the past twenty years. From hardware to software, let alone twenty years ago, even two years ago, many things are in danger of becoming obsolete.

This also makes Ning Wei yearn for it. Maybe one day in the future, his scientific research results can also lay the foundation for the future.

"Okay, let's not talk about Lao Lu anymore. Ning Wei, are you ready for tomorrow's report?" Professor Shen changed the topic and brought the question to business.

Ning Wei nodded quickly and replied: "Get ready. Professor Lu attaches great importance to this conference. He urges me to sort out the paper every day in China."

Professor Shen nodded slightly and said: "Well, I know that. I have read your speech and there is nothing wrong with it. But the focus of the report meeting is not your reporting time, but the question session. Your report meeting has already The audience includes editors of top journals such as JACM, ACM-TOWS, and IEEE TKDE, technical executives from high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell, AT\u0026T, Cisco, etc., as well as many Ivy League professors and industry leaders. Celebrities."

"Don't show timidity when the time comes, just deal with it with a normal mind. When you encounter difficult questions, you can tell them directly without answering them because of time constraints and discuss them privately. But based on the level you showed in your paper, I believe you I was able to complete this 60-minute report meeting very well.”

"60 minutes?" After hearing Professor Shen's words, Yu Xingwei beside him couldn't help but sigh in surprise.

You must know that at such a top academic conference, it is an honor worthy of a special mention for an undergraduate to speak on stage. The conference attaches great importance to being able to perform forty-five minutes, and sixty minutes, This is a treatment that only big names in the industry can get.

"Yes, 60 minutes. But this has nothing to do with me. Indeed, many people are interested in Ningwei's turbulence algorithm. As reflected in the data report of your laboratory, this algorithm is used to repair network communication protocols. Some exploitable loopholes provide another simpler solution, which is very valuable." Professor Shen commented very pertinently.

As soon as he finished speaking, the professor's cell phone rang.

After answering the phone and answering twice, Professor Shen stood up: "Okay, today is quite busy. An old friend has just arrived. We have made an appointment to have dinner together today, so I won't accompany you."

"It's okay, don't worry about us, just go and do your work."

"Okay, Shaojie, Ning Wei and Xiao Yu will be left to you. You can take them to the hotel to interact with those young people, but one thing is that they cannot leave the hotel." Professor Shen turned to Feng Shaojie and explained. One sentence.

"Don't worry, Professor Shen, I know."

…

As soon as Shen Zheqing left, Feng Shaojie was obviously relieved: "Huh, do you want to go to the buffet directly? Or should I take you to experience a happy party exclusively for young people?"

After Yu Xingwei and Ning Wei looked at each other, Ning Wei said decisively: "Let's go to the buffet. Let's just eat something simple and then go back to the room."

"This choice... There is no shortage of exotic beauties at foreigners' parties."

Ning Wei shook his head resolutely and said: "To tell you the truth, my brother Yu has never been interested in beautiful women. How about this, brother Feng just takes us to the restaurant, and then you go play with yourself, and we will go back directly after eating." The room is just fine.”

Hearing this, Yu Xingwei rolled his eyes. What was even more annoying was that Feng Shaojie looked at him with an obviously ambiguous look.

"I'm not even interested in men!" He finally couldn't help but argue.

"Oh, I understand! Okay, two ascetics, come with me. To put it bluntly, you are missing the most beautiful things at your most beautiful age." Feng Shaojie spread his hands and commented.

…

Following Feng Shaojie to the buffet restaurant prepared by the conference organizer, Ning Wei also roughly understood why the buffet here was called a buffet.

Looking around, there are the most exquisite-looking desserts. Fortunately, there are self-service sandwiches and soups in small bowls to choose from, as well as a variety of wines.

"The conference hasn't started yet, so the dishes are not quite available. You can just make do with it. I won't accompany you."

After taking the two of them to the restaurant, Feng Shaojie left directly without saying these words, obviously yearning for the so-called young people's party.

It was meal time, and there were many people in the restaurant. Ning Wei and Yu Xingwei lined up in front of the long table filled with various snacks, choosing various foods. Of course, this did not prevent Yu Xingwei from complaining: "Xiao Ning Anyway, I’m actually very interested in beauties, especially exotic beauties.”

Anyway, he was speaking Chinese, and the two of them were blond and blue-eyed Westerners, so there was a high probability that they wouldn’t be able to understand him.

"Do you want to go to that PARTY that Brother Feng mentioned?" Ning Wei asked casually.

"That hasn't happened yet..."

"That's it, you don't want to go anyway. At the end of the day, I actually wanted to see it. Mainly to take care of your thoughts, Brother Yu, I refused."

Such a thorough logic, Yu Xingwei was speechless, the Chinese people's unique implicitness hurt him.

"What do you want to see?"

"Rotten capitalist life!"

The two of them were chatting and stuffing things into their mouths.

Anyway, the people in the restaurant are strangers to them, so naturally they don't care much about image issues. Ning Wei did not socialize with wine glasses like other people in the restaurant, but chose to use the most efficient way to socialize. Stuff yourself.

After walking around the dining table and solving his stomach problem, Ning Wei planned to ask Yu Xingwei to go back to the room directly.

Just at this time, accompanied by the sound of "ta da da" footsteps, a gust of fragrant wind came, and a young lady from the Western Regions wearing a black evening dress with blond hair and blue eyes passed by Ning Wei. At that moment, a coincidence happened, the young lady's The high heels suddenly broke, and he let out an exclamation of "oh...". He lost his balance and fell towards Ning Wei.

It was so sudden. Ning Wei subconsciously stretched out his hand and put his hand on the foreign lady's back. Everything was done in an instant. When Ning Wei reacted, what he saw when he lowered his head was a rather delicate and fair face. , those moist eyes, fluttering eyelashes, and slightly curly long golden hair.

Wait, there's something wrong with the feeling of the hand on the young lady's back. It's smooth, cool, and elastic, a bit like... genuine leather?

Ning Wei was horrified...

At this moment, his hands made a decision faster than his brain. Before he could fully help the young lady to stand up, he quickly withdrew the right hand that was holding her back.

"my god..."

The young lady, who was already unsteady on her feet due to the broken high heels, lost her support, and with a second exclamation, she sat down on the ground without any image.

The scream was most likely due to an accident. He was in a half-crouching position, so the fall was not actually heavy. The loss of points was mainly due to image...

Everyone around was stunned, and the hasty exclamations attracted all eyes to this area.

The time came to test his reaction speed. With lightning speed, Yu Xingwei took a step forward and helped the young lady up before almost everyone could react.

And asked thoughtfully: "Miss, are you okay?"

"Thank you, I'm fine." The young lady thanked her perfunctorily, then looked at Ning Wei angrily and asked, "But why?"

Many people looked at Ning Wei, after all, his behavior just now was indeed ungentlemanly.

"No, why do you seem to have no clothes on your back?" Ning Wei spread his hands and asked innocently.

"Ha..." As soon as Ning Wei finished speaking, the awkward laughter disappeared from the scene. There were even a few pairs of slightly approving eyes cast on Ning Wei...

As Feng Shaojie said, this is a country full of contradictions. Maybe many people have open ideas, but there are definitely many people in the mainstream society who advocate the Puritan lifestyle. For them, a conservative life of chastity before marriage is a normal thing.

"So you've never seen a girl wearing a backless evening dress before?" the young lady asked in an incredible tone.

Ning Wei shook his head honestly. The laughter around him was smaller but more joyful. This oriental young man is very interesting...

But Ning Wei is really aggrieved. He is just an ordinary senior student who has not yet had time to step into society. All he sees around him are ordinary seniors. Who on campus would Are you okay with wearing this kind of outfit?

Blame him?