Chapter 122 Searching for Professor Zhang Wei Season 2
“You want me to be a consultant for Amazon?” Zhang Wei looked at Bezos in surprise.
You are Amazon! I'm just a college student. How can He Dehe go to Amazon as a consultant?
Zhang Wei's slightly surprised expression fell into Bezos's eyes, and Bezos immediately felt that there was something going on!
So Bezos continued: "Being a consultant at Amazon is actually very easy. Many times, our consultants don't have to do anything. They only need to check their bank accounts on time to see if there are any consulting fees. Received! ”
Why don't you get paid for nothing? Zhang Weicai doesn’t believe it! Amazon is not stupid.
So Zhang Wei asked: "Then what do you need me to do?"
"What Amazon needs is that you don't have to do anything." Bezos smiled slightly.
Zhang Wei pondered for a moment, then nodded: "I understand, I don't do anything, including controlling my mouth and not talking nonsense."
After all, I am within the system. People who have been around for half their lives still have this understanding.
Don't do anything, the subtext is don't mess around and cause trouble. The consulting fee is clearly a hush fee!
What matters are worthy of Amazon paying hush money? It's obviously what Zhang Wei just talked about, cloud services.
Cloud services are definitely one of the core projects for Amazon’s future development. In order not to expose strategic intentions, Bezos is happy to pay hush money.
“Thank you very much for Mr. Bezos and Amazon’s love. Being able to become a consultant for Amazon is my dream!” Zhang Wei replied immediately.
In the United States, there is no need to compete with capitalists. If other capitalists are willing to pay, then just accept it.
Zhang Wei didn't intend to rip off Amazon. Firstly, he was on a foreign land, and if he was ripped off too hard, he might actually be silenced. Secondly, as a scholar, he still had to have some integrity and not be too snobbish.
Seeing that Zhang Wei agreed without hesitation, Bezos breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on his face.
As a capitalist, I love dealing with scientists like this who are willing to take money!
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Zhang Wei did not mention the specific hush fee, nor did Bezos.
For a super-rich man like Bezos, who can become the world's richest man, he doesn't need to bargain for a small sum of hundreds of thousands of dollars in person.
And Zhang Wei also knows that there is no need to mention money to Besos. Amazon should offer a reasonable price.
For a large enterprise like this to hire a consultant, there is indeed a pre-set price.
The so-called consulting fees are either public relations fees or hush-hush fees. What level of consultants and what level of consulting fees will be paid are all divided in advance.
Low-level consulting fees are about US$70,000 to US$80,000 a year, which is more than the median salary in the United States. High-end consulting fees can cost several million dollars a year.
The price Amazon offered Zhang Wei was US$300,000 a year, and he signed a two-year consulting contract, which means a total of US$600,000.
Two years later, Amazon's cloud service should be online, and Zhang Wei will no longer need to keep it secret.
Three hundred thousand dollars a year, in 2004, was equivalent to the annual salary of a senior engineer at an Internet giant company. Senior Internet engineers basically had a salary ceiling. The annual salary of three hundred thousand dollars was the salary of those who achieved the goal of achieving the goal of the United States. The ultimate salary that a dreamer can get.
For Amazon, it is equivalent to hiring one more senior engineer. Anyway, Amazon has a lot of senior engineers who work hard. At this price, it can keep its strategic intentions secret. It cannot be said that it is not a loss. It has to be said that blood is earned.
For Zhang Wei, he was very satisfied with the fact that he did not have to do anything and picked up 600,000 US dollars for free without risk.
Don't think that the consulting fee of 300,000 US dollars a year is very small. On average, it is equivalent to 25,000 US dollars a month.
Ten years later, the son of a US president also worked as a consultant for an energy company in Ukraine. At that time, the consulting fee was only US$80,000 a month.
The president’s son can only earn 80,000 yuan a month, and Zhang Wei earns 25,000 yuan a month. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?
After Bezos left, Professor Adelman called Zhang Wei into his office again. He did not ask what Bezos and Zhang Wei had discussed alone.
In American workplace culture, it is taboo to pry into other people's privacy.
Adelman opened the drawer, took out a document and handed it to Zhang Wei.
"Zhang, the comparisons of the eleven photos you asked for are all here!"
"Thank you, Professor." Zhang Wei took the file, couldn't wait to open it, and looked at it first Take a look at the results.
As expected, after computer comparison, the eleven photos were all taken from the same subject.
And there are detailed instructions in it, such as which parts of the photos are completely consistent. This is evidence that Huang Yuxi’s paper was faked.
"Zhang, it seems that this is exactly the result you want! But now I am very curious, how did you guess that these eleven photos may be from the same subject? It should be impossible to distinguish this thing with the naked eye, right? Aardman asked.
"Two reasons. The first reason is that since the publication of that paper, no one has been able to repeat the experiments in it." Zhang Wei said.
“An experiment that cannot be repeated is indeed very doubtful. What about the second reason?”
“The second reason is that the author of that paper is a Smecta!”< br>
……
Comrade Zhang Wei, associate professor of computer science and technology at Tsinghua University, just walked into the office and saw all his colleagues standing up and applauding one after another.
"What's going on?" Associate Professor Zhang Wei was stunned for a moment. He looked to the left and right and saw no one else coming in. He also stretched out his hands and clapped along.
Since everyone is applauding, if I don’t do this, will I look out of place?
"Professor Zhang, congratulations!" A colleague came forward and said with a smile.
"Same joy, same joy!" Associate Professor Zhang Wei said instinctively, but he didn't know where the joy came from.
"Why are they congratulating me? Are they going to promote me to a full professor? I was just promoted to associate professor the year before last, and I am not qualified to be promoted to a full professor! And if you are promoted from associate professor to full professor, don't you have to interview!
Recently, I also I didn’t buy a lottery ticket! Didn’t you hear about the salary increase? And if everyone gets a salary increase, there’s no need to congratulate me alone! My wife is also in good health, has no illness or disaster, and can drain my kidneys every day. She will probably live longer than me. No matter what, I haven’t had any happy events recently! "The three major happy events for middle-aged men are promotion and career. Get rich or lose your wife, Associate Professor Zhang Wei thought about it, and he didn’t get any of it.
An older colleague came over with a smile: "Xiao Zhang, it seems that I have to call you Professor Zhang from now on!"
"Yes, if you have made such great achievements, it will definitely be no problem to be promoted to a senior position. Maybe it will be your turn to apply for professional titles next month!" Another person said.
Associate Professor Zhang Wei became more and more confused as he listened, not knowing what everyone was talking about.
At this time, the head of the department also came over. He came to Associate Professor Zhang Wei and said with a serious face: "Xiao Zhang, although you have achieved results this time, I still want to criticize you. Just a few words!
Why don’t you report such important scientific research results to the department in advance? Is it possible that you still can’t trust the leaders in the department?
Even if you can’t trust other people, Don’t you still trust me and Professor Liu? It’s been more than ten years since you came to Tsinghua University as a graduate student, then you stayed as a teacher after you graduated as a Ph.D., and then you were promoted to associate professor, right? Professor Liu and I have taken good care of you, right?”
"Director, look at what you said. You are my leader and Professor Liu is my mentor. How could I not trust you two?" Didn't you say anything?" The director still looked unhappy, and then asked: "Did you look down on me and Lao Liu by climbing on top of Berkeley?"
"All this? Where are you?" Associate Professor Zhang Wei became increasingly confused.
“Which Berkeley are you talking about?”
At this time, Professor Liu also came over and said sourly: “Which other Berkeley is there? University of California, Berkeley. ! Zhang Wei, you are quite capable! It seems that the computer department of Tsinghua University can’t keep you. When do you plan to go to the United States to develop?”
"Teacher, this is how you start talking! What happened?" Associate Professor Zhang Wei noticed that his tutor's face was not kind, so he quickly said with a smile:
"Teacher, please calm down first, I agree. Isn't it okay to just accept the punishment? But you have to let me know what I did wrong to make you and the director angry?"
"Look at this!" Professor Liu pointed it out to Zhang. Associate Professor Wei picked up a journal and left without looking back.
Associate Professor Zhang Wei took the journal and looked at it. It was the latest issue of "ACM Computing Survey". The entire Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University did not order a few copies of this journal. Several professors sent it first. Look, it's not his turn yet.
"What happened to "ACM Computing Surveys"?" Zhang Wei opened the journal and started reading from the table of contents.
A colleague next to him smiled and said: "Xiao Zhang, I can't find the page of the paper you published yourself! Come on, let me help you find it."
Colleagues stepped forward to help. Associate Professor Zhang Wei found the paper.
"Concise non-interactive knowledge argument with zero knowledge? Author, Zhang Wei."
Look at the annotations at the end, Tsinghua University and University of California, Berkeley.
"I didn't write this paper. I never wrote this paper! It has the same name. It must be the same name!" Associate Professor Zhang Wei pointed at the journal and shouted loudly.
Hearing Associate Professor Zhang Wei shouting loudly, Professor Liu turned back.
“You didn’t write the paper?”
Associate Professor Zhang Wei’s head immediately shook like a rattle: “It wasn’t written by me! It was definitely not written by me, I swear to God! If this is the case I wrote it, my damn wife!”
“Damn wife? You want something good!” Professor Liu snorted, but his expression softened a lot.
The students I brought out with my own hands did not betray myself, and I felt instantly relieved!
But others looked surprised.
The head of the department immediately asked: "Xiao Zhang, you said this paper was not written by you? Do you confirm?"
"This is the "ACM Computing Survey", and the entire China is also Not many people can publish papers on it. If I can publish papers on it, why wouldn’t I admit it?”
“But it’s Zhang Wei who is in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, except you? "Is there another Zhang Wei?"
"Could it be a graduate student? I remember that there seems to be a new graduate student named Zhang Wei!" said someone next to him.
"There is also an undergraduate named Zhang Wei." Another person also said from the side.
“Check, go check it out!” The head of the department paused, and then said: “Except for those named Zhang Wei, as long as their names are in these two pinyin, check it out for me!”
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The result of the query is naturally nothing.
The graduate student named Zhang Wei in the Department of Computer Science was admitted from another school. His level is very average and he doesn’t know what zero-knowledge proof is. However, the undergraduate named Zhang Wei cannot even read the "ACM Computing I have never heard of the journal "Investigation".
The entire computer department of Tsinghua University is a little confused.
Such a heavyweight paper was published, but the author could not be found!
To say that he is taking the blame, it’s just that he can’t find anyone.
This is a good thing to do to establish a career, but it is really strange that no one can be found.
In the conference room of the Department of Computer Science, a group of professors were discussing what to do.
"Director, do you think the "ACM Computing Survey" made a mistake? The Zhang Wei who published the paper is not from our Tsinghua University at all."
"What do you think of the "ACM Computing Survey"? Can a journal like this make such a low-level mistake? Moreover, our Tsinghua University is still ahead of Berkeley when it comes to signatures of papers. If this wasn’t intentional by the editor, how could we be ahead of Berkeley?”
“ Director, I thought of a possibility. This paper was published by a professor from another department. After all, the signature of the paper only said Tsinghua University, not the department.
As far as I know, it is from the Department of Engineering. Many professors have good computer skills, and maybe some of them are working on zero-knowledge proofs!”
“Don’t mention it, it’s really possible. We have a lot of talents at Tsinghua University, so we really can’t rule it out! ” agreed another.
The head of the department nodded: "It makes sense. It seems that we have to search for this professor named Zhang Wei throughout the school!"
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