CH 137 Interview

After the banquet, Jiang Chen stayed at He's for two nights before returning to the Jiang's. After staying with his parents for a day, he took his suitcase and moved to the Military Research Institute.

Once the project was approved, it took another process from the formation of the team to the actual establishment. During the days when Jiang Chen returned to school, the Military Research Institute had already invited many top scientific researchers in related fields to participate in the selection in the name of establishing a new artificial intelligence project.

Today was the last round of selection, and there were a total of 20 top researchers who have been selected out of more than 500 people.

Jiang Chen would go through the final interview with several other leaders of the Military Research Institute to select the most suitable members of his team from the twenty people.

The first conference room of the Seventeenth Military Research Institute.

The young man in military uniform knocked on the open wooden door of the conference room, and after everyone inside had looked over, he said, "All the interviewers have already arrived in the fifth conference room, and now according to different research directions, In groups of four you will come with me."

Three men and one woman stood up at the same time. They were all members who had undergone selection and confidential training together. They were very familiar with each other. They glanced at each other and followed the young soldier out.

After they left, the remaining people couldn't help discussing:

"I heard that the project leader will come today. Who do you think he might be?"

"I think it may be Chang Feng. I heard that since he won the innovation award for the chip he made, because he couldn't mass-produce it and it had a lot of bugs, there was no follow-up development. Maybe the project was stopped, so he came to the Military Research Institute to start a new project."

"You think it's so easy to approve projects in a military research institute?" A middle-aged man said: "Chang Feng is indeed talented, but he hasn't reached the level where the military research institute can gather us all together for him. I think it is very likely that it is Professor Zhou."

Someone exclaimed: "Professor Zhou?"

"It is indeed possible." Someone pondered: "There has been no news about Professor Zhou in the past few years. I heard that the project in his hand happens to be an artificial intelligence project. Maybe it has made progress, so we are all called here to study together. After all, apart from Professor Zhou, I can’t think of anyone else in China who can have such influence to make the government issue notices to all national research institutes.”

"It would be great if it was Professor Zhou. I have always wanted to study under him. Before he left Yan Uni, I always wanted to take his postgraduate entrance examination. Who knew that he left the year I took the examination. This has always been my regret."

"Brother, what's your year? Professor Zhou was a teacher more than 20 years ago, right?"

"Hahaha….."

Professor Zhou, who was being discussed in the conference room here, was currently sitting in front of Jiang Chen.

After Jiang Chen listened to Professor Xiang's introduction, his heart was filled with excitement, and he couldn't help showing a little bit of it on his face.

This was a person who appeared in the history texts of the ancient earth and in the professional textbooks of all students who study AI in the interstellar era. He was the most cutting-edge and top artificial intelligence researcher in Asia and had brought countless technological conveniences to the people and the world.

"I've heard your name for a long time, I've been wanting to see you, and I finally saw you today."Professor Zhou was not as thin and old as Jiang Chen had seen in the books, but rather mellow, and his eyes squinted when he smiled, appearing very kind, "You are much younger than I imagined."

Jiang Chen sat obediently, and smiled shyly when he heard this.

Seeing him like this, Professor Xiang was quite surprised. He pointed at him and said to Professor Zhou, "I haven't seen him look so obedient since the first time I saw him."

Professor Zhou smiled and said, "Maybe it's because I'm more kindly looking."

Professor Xiang glanced at him, and then began to discuss something serious with Jiang Chen: "He will be your team's consultant in the future, you can ask him any questions you have."

Jiang Chen raised his eyes, and the surprise in his eyes poured out: "Really?"

"Really." It was rare for Professor Xiang to see him so happy, and he also laughed: "He will be interviewing the candidates with you later."

Jiang Chen suppressed his excitement, stood up and bowed slightly to Professor Zhou: "Professor Zhou, please give me advice in the future."

Professor Zhou also stood up, supported Jiang Chen's arm and said, "We will be cooperating with each other, but I can't talk about giving advice. I watched the two battles between your Changjiang System and the Cyber Security Bureau. It was so exciting. I always thought that it would take at least fifty more years or even longer for artificial intelligence to develop to such a level. I didn’t expect you to promote the development of science and technology all over the world by just yourself. If you talk about giving advice, there is no age or seniority. According to the achievements and depth of the professional knowledge, only you can be giving me advice here."

Professor Zhou's words were gentle and sincere. Looking at the round and kind old man in front of him, Jiang Chen relaxed his nervousness.

Professor Xiang waited for the two of them to finish talking before reminding them: "Let's go, the interview will be starting soon."

The fifth conference room.

There were already two people sitting behind the long table. Seeing Jiang Chen and Professor Zhou come in, they both stood up and greeted them with a smile.

It was not the first time Jiang Chen met these two. The last time was at the meeting where the image processing system was put into use by the military. One was the old man who was sitting across from him and asked him the first question, and the other was the man with high cheekbones who had treated him with distrust.

At this time, the man with high cheekbones looked at Jiang Chen with a smile on his face, pulled a stool for him to sit down, and said a lot about his optimism for the future of the Changjiang system, and no one could see that the two of them had been on opposing sides before.

Jiang Chen accepted his compliments with a smile and thanked him. The man saw that Jiang Chen didn't seem to remember the enmity at the meeting, he was relieved, and the smile on his face became more real.

Someone came in and told them that the first batch of interviewees were ready and waiting outside the door, and asked if they would be allowed in now.

The three old men appeared serious or kindly, but none of them intended to speak. Jiang Chen's eyes moved slightly, knowing that they were using actions to show that he was the only leader of this project, and at the same time they voluntarily assisted him in his work.

Jiang Chen said, "Let them in."

The four interviewees walked in quickly and sat on the four chairs opposite the long table. The ages of the four of them were not much different, they were all around 30 years old, so when they saw that the person sitting in the center of the interviewers' seat was a young man who could be no more than 20 years old at a glance, some revealed clearly surprised looks.

"I'm Zhao Zheng. I have been working in the Qing City Branch of the Institute of Computing Technology, of the National Research Institute since I graduated from graduate school. It has been exactly ten years now. My main research field is system structure research. I have been responsible for projects such as....."

The four introduced themselves one by one, and the interviewers could start asking questions.

Jiang Chen flipped through the resumes of the four of them, but said nothing. The middle-aged man with high cheekbones looked to the right and saw that no one had any intention of speaking, so he coughed and opened his mouth first.

"Huang Xinghua, you once participated in the research on the scalability verification chip. What do you think was the biggest gain from this project?"

The person who was asked the question was the only female interviewee. She almost didn't have to think, and quickly summed up her experience and gains. It was remarkable but not particularly outstanding.

After the middle-aged man asked, Professor Yang and Professor Xiang also asked the other two questions, but Professor Zhou and Jiang Chen remained silent.

The eyes of the three focused on the two of them. Jiang Chen glanced at Professor Zhou, put down the resumes, glanced at the four people in front of him, and his eyes finally landed on the man who spoke first: "Zhao Zheng, what do you think are the shortcomings of the current 2G network? And if you want to upgrade the 2G network, what is the most feasible solution?"

Zhao Zheng, who was asked the question, was stunned for two seconds. He had been hoping that Professor Zhou could ask him the question, because he was here for Professor Zhou, but he didn't expect that the young man sitting in the middle would ask him the question, and the question was so weird, it had nothing to do with the previously assessed items.

Zhao Zheng pondered, then said: "The disadvantage of 2G is that the network is unstable and the maintenance cost is too high. If you want to upgrade to 2G, you can start from these two aspects."

Jiang Chen laced his fingers and rested his chin on them, his expression couldn't be told if he was satisfied or not: "Is there any more?"

Zhao Zheng frowned and said, "No more."

Jiang Chen nodded and stopped talking.

Professor Zhou finally said, "You can all go out now."

Zhao Zheng was taken aback, and blurted out: "You are the person in charge, why don't you ask us questions?"

Professor Zhou smiled and shook his head: "I'm just a consultant for this project, not the person in charge of this project."

The other three were also stunned. Zhao Zheng asked, "Who is the person in charge of the project?"

Jiang Chen raised his eyes, closed their resumes, and said lightly, "Me."

Zhao Zheng blurted out: "How is it possible?" After he finished speaking, he realized the situation here, a trace of annoyance and self-blame flashed in his eyes, but he also went all out: "Since you are the person in charge of this project, can you tell me what is the project that has so many of us concentrated here at the same time? It has to do with artificial intelligence? Why have I never heard of your name before?"

Jiang Chen said in a calm manner: "My name is Jiang Chen. I was in charge of the research of the military's image processing system before. Now that the results have been put into use, you should have heard that the project I am currently in charge of is a national secret. Before you become a member of the project team I can't tell you anything, sorry."

Image processing system?

Although the interviewees were in different fields, they were all computer technology researchers. They naturally knew of the image processing system that caused a storm some time ago, but they only know that the image processing system came from the 17th Military Research Institute, but they didn't know who was responsible for it

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be such a young boy in front of him.

Zhao Zheng was convinced a lot more now, but he was still a little unwilling: "Can I ask, what do you think of me? Do you want me to join your team?"

Jiang Chen smiled: "Mr. Zhao, I'm sorry that I can't give you an answer for now. After all the interviews are over, you will receive your answer."

Zhao Zheng sat still: "I have two last questions."

Jiang Chen had a very good temper, and nodded: "Ask."

"First, you asked me about the shortcomings of 2G. I mentioned two of them. You seem to be dissatisfied. I want to hear your point of view. Second, was the image processing system a project you led or a project you participated in."

Jiang Chen: "In addition to the unstable network and high maintenance costs, the most important thing is that the transmission rate is too low. Only by increasing the transmission rate can we truly upgrade 2G. The image processing system was a project developed by me alone. After signing the contract with the military research institute, we have further developed the image processing system, and have achieved certain achievements in the military. At present, the image processing system needs another development team to conduct medical application research.”

Jiang Chen answered in great detail, and the four interviewees could hear it clearly, especially Zhao Zheng. He couldn't believe that the image processing system that he had admired countless times before and wanted to meet the researchers was actually made by Jiang Chen. And it was even developed by him alone, and was now put into research on other applications.

But no one would lie in front of some of the foremost authorities in the computer industry. Moreover, the fact that the young man in front of him could sit here, sitting in the most central position already showed his strength.

Zhao Zheng recalled the confidentiality level of this project and the amazing image processing system, and it was difficult to suppress the excitement in his heart. Thinking that this might be the project he had been looking forward to for more than ten years, he breathed a little faster: "I really hope to enter your team, I hope you will consider me more."

Jiang Chen could see his excitement, and said with a smile, "I will."

When he walked out of the meeting room, Zhao Zheng could no longer hide the excitement that he had tried to hide on his face.

He turned his head and said to the other three people: "I have a hunch that this project will be one of the most important projects in our country in recent years, and it will also be the most exciting journey of my scientific research career, so no matter what, I have to be part of this team.”