Chapter 1907 First Mover Advantage
Zhou Zhi smiled: "You don’t have to worry about the cost of research and development. We leave our professional work to professionals."
Mai Xiaomiao thinks about it too. I am worrying blindly: "Indeed, all I can do is mental work, and there is really nothing else I can do."
"Anyway, if you come to our group, the funds we can provide will definitely be more than what the country provides." Zhou Zhi said: "No matter what, it will start with tens of millions."
"In fact, no matter what the country or the country provides, Clover, if you have financial difficulties, you don’t have to worry about my remuneration..."
"This is not possible. Now is no longer the era of silent dedication." Zhou Zhi said: "But we accept your heart."
The decision in the capital was also very quick. After all, Mai Xiaomiao is still American nationality, in the Galaxy incident After her birth, some quiet changes began to occur in the relations between major powers. Zhou Zhi's suggestion was indeed the most reasonable. Mai Xiaomiao joined the laboratory prepared for her by the Clover Group as a hired scholar. This is the most commonly used laboratory by international high-tech companies. Headhunting method is in line with convention.
Furthermore, Clover Group itself is quite strong, both in terms of technology and capital. However, Shu University still joined in as a third party, mainly to supervise the progress of the laboratory. To put it bluntly, it still wants to share the technical results. .
In order to solidify the matter, Zhou Zhi also held an appointment unveiling ceremony. He and Mai Xiaomiao each held a corner of the appointment letter. The two took their first photo together, and they also cut the ribbon together to sign the "Cellular Neural Network" Network Technology Laboratory" red ribbon.
CCTV also reported on this, but it was only mixed in with a lot of news about scientific and technological achievements. It was so low-key that there was only one sentence, that is, Clover Group established an information computing forward-looking subject experiment. room, even Mai Xiaomiao’s name was not mentioned.
However, in the domestic information technology academic circle, this matter still has a huge impact. In addition to its initial investment in graph databases and several related projects, the Clover Group has guaranteed an additional 30 million yuan in additional preparatory funds, and the first phase will be paid directly. Seven million yuan was spent to build a computing power cluster in advance.
You must know that even in Guangdong Province, which is now very developed in China, the total cost of a province's INTERNET information transformation project is only five million US dollars, more than 30 million yuan. From the perspective of investment alone, it is enough The Clover Group values this laboratory.
However, Zhou Zhi knows that the 30 million yuan may not even make the sound of water. Cutting-edge research on modern information technology is not only a matter of academic investment preparation. Without huge financial investment, it will be difficult to achieve results. Yes, my previous success was just a reflection of the times and two lifetimes of being a human being. Now this investment is a real hard work.
In ten years time, even 300 billion will not be enough. Now that he can get a few years of first-mover advantage with only 30 million, Zhou Zhi feels that he has already made a fortune.
Next came several preparatory meetings to implement equipment, venues, funds, human resources and many other terms. Fortunately, problems that can be solved with money are not problems. In addition, ministries, governments, and colleges have taken the initiative from above. With the full and vigorous cooperation of the staff, the decision was quickly finalized.
Over the weekend, Zhou Zhi finally had time to visit Mr. Gu and report to him on the progress of several tasks he had received from Mr. Gu. Except for the work on inferring ancient Shu sounds that had not yet started, the rest of the work was progressing quite well. Smoothly.
In particular, the nationwide field survey and collection of dialect phonetic specimens went very smoothly. The two elements of forums and college students are indispensable for this.
The forum has gathered a large group of like-minded young people. These people come from all over the world. They themselves speak various dialects. They know their own language best. This project collects and organizes the dialects of their hometowns. Work is not difficult for any liberal arts student who has taken fieldwork courses and phonetics courses. Moreover, this matter was initiated by Zhou Zhi through the Yutang Cultural Preservation Foundation. In addition to recruiting college students, it also directly contacted the local government where the college students were located, asking for local cooperation.
For parents of college students, there are many benefits for their children to become special dialect researchers of the Yutang Cultural Preservation Foundation.
Because the investigation requires the cooperation of the local government, it is equivalent to having your children registered with the government in advance and showing their faces. Compared with ordinary college students, especially college students who are considering returning to their hometown in the future, this is a huge advantage.
What I do is a serious matter. At the most, it is the need of the country. At the most, it is to contribute to my hometown. At the most, it is a great personal exercise. I can walk on the street and chat with my friends and acquaintances. At this point, it is also a matter of pride.
For college students, they may not have thought of it so much, it is more of a passion for making money.
Although the remuneration given to them by the Yutang Cultural Preservation Foundation is not particularly generous, the recording equipment is a relatively high-end four-leaf clover MP3, and the Yutang Cultural Preservation Foundation also said that if the work is completed well, After the work is completed, these equipments will be owned by the students themselves.
Today’s MP3 prices are still quite high, especially those with high-definition recording functions, which are not popular overseas. They are mostly used by professional journalists. This thing is used for work, but it is actually endless. All the space can be used to sing songs. Walking around the school with this thing on your waist is still very cool.
This is the biggest reason why college students are so passionate about this work.
Of course, in order to prevent the unique laxity of college students, the Clover Group has formulated a strict work progress schedule at the forum. This is the strength of the group's information technology project management. This is the introduction of ISO standards into The college project management team came in and the results were very good.
Mr. Gu is very satisfied with the progress of Zhou Zhi’s project. At least Zhou Zhi directly spread the work across the country through the Yutang Cultural Protection Foundation and online forums. After online interviews, more than 50 college students were finally selected. , less than half of whom are graduate students and doctoral students, it can be said that the quality of the team is quite high.
These more than 50 researchers need to be responsible for field surveys and audio collection of more than 30 dialects across the country in accordance with the requirements drawn up by Zhou Zhi and Gu Lao, and finally form a Chinese dialect phonetic audio standard library and compile it Used as a basic library for medieval phonetic inference.
Gu Lao did not expect that the project would be so large and efficient at first. According to his innermost thoughts, as long as the collection of this Chinese dialect phonetic audio standard library is completed, the thoughtful graduate project should be given full marks, and Strictly speaking, it should be the job of a doctor, postdoctoral fellow, or even a researcher or professor to assemble elements from a specimen library with complete pronunciation of Chinese dialects and complete the prediction of medieval pronunciation.
However, he had no intention of revealing it at all. Since Jiuzi had strict requirements on himself and regarded a topic that only researchers and professors dared to tackle as his graduate project, he was of course happy to see the results.
After all, I have a record of submitting college papers in high school!