eurekapd Chapter 273 Artificial Intelligence Competition
Chapter 273 Artificial Intelligence Competition
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a week has passed since Lin Chen returned.
Although he had returned to China, Lin Chen had no time to rest; instead, he was extremely busy.
During this period, Lin Chen appeared on CCTV's interview program again.
Lin Chen encountered an immigration controversy while abroad.
Although he later posted two Weibo posts to prove his innocence, not everyone who goes online reads Weibo.
Just then, CCTV and the school arranged an interview program, and Lin Chen took this opportunity to reaffirm his determination not to immigrate on television.
Aside from the interview, Lin Chen spent the rest of the time wandering around various colleges, confirming the defense dates for his graduation theses with the professors of the majors he minored in last semester.
The rest of the time, Lin Chen was busy completing his master's thesis, which focused on proving the BSD conjecture.
After a busy period, he only managed to meet Chen Xiaoxiao once after returning.
That day, Lin Chen took his completed master's thesis to Professor Wang's office again.
After briefly reading Lin Chen's master's thesis, Professor Wang was filled with emotion.
"You are a promising young man! After you proved Goldbach's Conjecture, I wondered how long it would take for you to achieve something similar again. I didn't expect to see the result so soon."
"There shouldn't be any major problems with this paper. If there were, someone would have pointed them out at the Mathematicians' Congress. So I won't ask you any specific questions now; we can ask them during the defense."
"Then I would be grateful if you would be lenient with me, Mr. Wang."
Lin Chen smiled modestly.
Old Wang suddenly straightened his face: "Still calling me Old Wang? Even though I let you graduate with your master's degree ahead of schedule, can't I still call you 'teacher'?"
"teacher!"
"That's pretty much it..."
Old Wang smiled contentedly: "Let's put your undergraduate and master's degree defenses in mathematics together, so we can save some time."
But you should be careful, even though it's just a formality, you still need to prepare, because there will be quite a few people coming to be your judges!
Others might not be as easy to talk to as I am!
Lin Chen asked curiously, "Teacher, who else is coming?"
"Most of them are from our school. There are a few old guys who know you're going to defend your thesis and they insist on coming over to join in the fun. Even Xiao Xu couldn't stop them!"
Lin Chen became even more curious: "Who exactly is it?"
"It doesn't hurt to tell you."
Old Wu paused for a moment: "One you know, Old Wu from Tsinghua and Peking University, and two others, one is Old Tian, Academician Tian Gang from the Longke Academy of Sciences, and the other is Old Zhou, Zhou Xiangyu, you may have heard of him."
I go!
Academician Tian and Academician Zhou?
Is it necessary?
Lin Chen actually knew the names of these two people.
Tian Gang is an academician of the Longke Academy of Sciences and the former dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tsinghua and Peking Universities, while Zhou Xiangyu is also an academician.
Besides being an academician, the former is a judge for the Abel Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, while the latter, like Lin Chen, has won the Chern Prize and also received the second prize of the National Natural Science Award.
They are all among the top mathematicians in China.
I'm just an undergraduate student doing my graduation defense, what are you academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences doing here?
Academicians are all very busy people, and with so many academicians attending Lin Chen's graduation defense, it's natural that the time had to be arranged carefully.
Lin Chen and Elder Wang discussed it for a while and finally decided to hold the defense in half a month.
After confirming the defense time, Lin Chen prepared to leave.
Just as he was about to leave, Old Wang suddenly handed him a mathematics journal.
"If you're free later, could you go to the School of Artificial Intelligence for me? Xiao Liu from there has asked to borrow this Mathematics Yearbook from me several times. Could you take it to him on your way?"
"Which Xiaoliu?"
"The one where I'll participate in your AI graduation thesis defense."
Wow, isn't that Dean Liu from the AI department? He's over sixty years old!
Well, in Old Wang's eyes, most people are juniors.
Holding the mathematics journal, Lin Chen arrived at the School of Artificial Intelligence, handed it over to Dean Liu, and then took his leave.
He hadn't gone far when he heard Lu Han's signature voice ring out in an office.
"Teacher, isn't this discrimination? Why can't freshmen participate? We're confident we can win awards if we're allowed to participate!"
"Yes, teacher! You have to believe in us! We really can do it!"
"Teacher, please give us a chance! We believe we can do it!"
Not only Lu Han, but Lin Chen also heard Chen Hao and Shi Jun's voices.
He immediately stopped and walked curiously to the door of the office, peeking inside.
Sure enough, the three people in my dorm were arguing with a professor from the School of Artificial Intelligence.
"Lu Han, it's not that your teacher doesn't want to give you a chance, but this competition is extremely difficult! You're only freshmen, and you can't even handle the source code. What kind of competition are you participating in?"
"Hey! Teacher, are you looking down on us? Do you believe that with our current level, we could graduate with a bachelor's degree without any problem?"
Lu Han said with a look of dissatisfaction.
The teacher opposite him couldn't help but sneer, "Lu Han, don't think that just because you're Lin Chen's roommate, you have Lin Chen's abilities!"
"Don't aim too high; be down-to-earth. Not everyone can be like Lin Chen!"
"Alright, alright, you're only freshmen, you'll have other opportunities in the future. Let's just forget about it this time and not waste our time!"
After talking for a while, the teacher lost his patience, got up, and kicked the three of them out.
"Teacher...teacher!"
After being kicked out of the office, Lu Han was furious and was about to say, "My fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of tomorrow," when he suddenly saw Lin Chen outside the door.
"Boss! What are you doing here?"
Chen Hao and Shi Jun both looked surprised and somewhat desolate, like a husband being caught cheating by his wife.
"I should be asking you guys, what are you doing? I just heard you say you were going to participate in a competition?"
"Nothing? Boss, you must have misheard me."
Lu Han chuckled awkwardly.
Chen Hao chuckled awkwardly, "Yeah, Lin Chen, you must have misheard."
Shi Jun was the most honest, stating directly: "We want to participate in this Cloud Journey Artificial Intelligence Application Competition."
Cloud Journey Artificial Intelligence Application Competition?
What the hell?
Lin Chen asked around and found out what had happened.
This happened on the very day he was leaving for the United States.
YunTu, currently the world's largest drone company, announced the first YunTu Artificial Intelligence Application Competition for college and graduate students nationwide.
This competition is a team competition, with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 members per team.
As the largest drone company in China, the main purpose of the competition is to test the participating teams' ability to use artificial intelligence and related knowledge and skills to solve drone application problems with artificial intelligence technology.
In Lin Chen's eyes, Yuntu was actually DJI from his original world.
Like DJI, it holds a dominant position in the global drone market and leads the development of civilian drone technology.
Therefore, Yuntu is very generous with its resources for this competition. It not only provides a total prize pool of over 10 million yuan, but also announced that it will give the winning team a start-up fund of 5 million yuan or a future employment opportunity at Yuntu.
It can be said that although this is only the first edition, the competition is of a very high standard.
Therefore, as soon as the competition was announced, it immediately attracted the attention of students from relevant majors at universities across the country.
Even Lu Han and the others were tempted by this.
Lu Han studied computer science.
Shi Jun studied artificial intelligence.
Chen Hao is an electronic information engineer.
The three individuals' majors happen to be related to drones and artificial intelligence.
As classmates of the genius Lin Chen, they naturally didn't want to be overshadowed by him forever.
Moreover, the three of them have made great progress in their studies by learning from Lin Chen over the past few months.
During the final exams last semester, all three of them received almost perfect scores in all their major courses, which made them a little arrogant.
They planned to take advantage of this competition to show their skills and let the world know that dormitory 402 was not just about Lin Chen, but also about the three of them!
However, before the three of them could unleash their full enthusiasm, they were silenced by the school's teachers.
Because the competition is so prestigious, there are restrictions on the eligibility criteria, and each university has a fixed number of places available.
The school was unaware that the three of them, under Lin Chen's tutelage, had almost completed their undergraduate studies.
Therefore, the School of Artificial Intelligence prioritizes third- and fourth-year students for team participation, and even second-year students are only considered for outstanding students. As for first-year students, they are left out.