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Chapter 346 Me? I am a contestant
Mei Hong originally thought that Xu Qingshan was just bragging.

It's not that he didn't trust Xu Qingshan, but he had an idea of ​​the efficiency of those foreigners.

Do you want to see what those guys were like before they came to China?
They do have the ability, otherwise they would not be world-renowned professors. It's just that when completing the docking, Mei Hong had already learned about these professors' research groups. What they are doing can basically be regarded as high-tech topics in high-tech fields. It is no exaggeration to say that every research group is expanding the limits of machine learning in this regard.

Something as challenging as this could take as fast as a year or as slow as three to five years.

If it was about producing some small results and some good core papers, then Mei Hong could understand it. Although she hadn't seen Xu Qingshan giving guidance very often, since Xu Qingshan was so confident, there might be some experts in these research groups.

But now, when someone suddenly told her that all the research groups that had only been there for half a year could finish their projects ahead of schedule next week and turn to winning awards, Mei Hong couldn't believe it.

Could it be that our Capital University is really a place of great feng shui that can transform people immediately after they come here?
Then why doesn’t my old Mei change?
But a week later, the project results report and review application submitted by the Information Technology Center really stunned Mei Hong.

But he also found some clues from those project results reports.

Almost all project teams put Xu Qingshan in a core position. If that were the case, perhaps it could be understood that these project teams came to Peking University because of Xu Qingshan, and this was a sign of respect for the cooperation with Xu Qingshan.

But the review application talks a lot about how Xu Qingshan overcame the difficult points in the project. Why are there so many of them?
This doesn't seem like something that someone like Xu Qingshan, who might only go there two or three times a year, can do in one go?
Mei Hong was puzzled and could only think that they often contacted each other online. It was not convenient for him to disturb Xu Qingshan at this time because Xu Qingshan had already taken Jiang Huanxi and Yang Shu to Bingcheng to participate in the 2010 ACM/ICPC Global Finals.

"Ice City is really cold. It's already April and it's still so cold."

Jiang Huanxi exhaled and wrapped his clothes tightly.

"Today's lowest temperature is 1 degree and the highest is 9 degrees, which is much better than in February. You have to thank me, otherwise if you came here to compete in February, it would be minus 2 to 2 degrees."

Xu Qingshan could still adapt to it. The temperature was about the same as when winter just started in Beijing, and even warmer.

Even now in April, the capital city is already starting to get a little hot, so it is indeed a bit cold when you suddenly come to the Ice City.

"But you can come here in February to see ice sculptures. I heard that this year's opening ceremony was originally for everyone to come and carve and see ice sculptures, but now it seems that it is gone."

Jiang Huanxi muttered that she was quite interested in the big ice sculptures in the Ice City.

"Are you not afraid of the cold after seeing the ice sculptures?"

"Then it's cold and valuable."

Yang Shu stood aside and watched the couple quarreling with an expressionless face. After thinking for a while, he took out a small computer the size of a mobile phone from his pocket and started typing on it. It looked very much like the BBK learning machine used by children.

"Hey, Yang Shu, what is this?"

Xu Qingshan noticed it and became interested.

"I made my own handheld laptop."

Concise and informative, Yangshu has always been like this.

"You have this skill? How did you do it?"

Xu Qingshan took the small laptop from Yang Shu and looked at it over and over again. The workmanship was so fine that, except for the lack of a logo, it didn't seem to be much different from the mass-produced products, except for the color scheme and the shell material which were a bit inferior.

"I bought some materials, and I couldn't do much development myself. I bought Intel's latest processor directly. They have a new development kit. As for the mold, I designed it myself. After the modeling was done, I asked someone to 3D print the shell. It took almost two months to ship it back from overseas. In the end, it was like this."

Yang Shu said it simply, but Xu Qingshan's eyebrows raised.

He could actually take such a thing so lightly.

Although Yang Shu had been controlling his expression, Xu Qingshan knew very well that when Yang Shu talked about something he was proud of, he would easily open up and talk. Sure enough, after Xu Qingshan gave him a word, Yang Shu started to talk.

"I think the design is very good. What are the parameters?"

Yang Shu took back his little notebook and introduced it seriously.

"The screen was removed from an iPad. It's amazing that Apple can make a product like this, but it's not really suitable for me."

Yang Shu opened the laptop cover and showed the screen to Xu Qingshan.

"It has a 9.7-inch IPS screen, a resolution of 1024*768, a ppi of 132, and supports multi-touch. The processor used is Intel's i3-330M, Arrandale architecture, and 32nm process. Due to the material problem, I can't control the heat. I used HM55 to expand the motherboard, which is exactly 17*17 after 19.7*17.9 expansion. The screen itself is 19.7*14.8, and the upper and lower borders are reserved. In the end, the overall size specification is 22*18. If I don't use 3D printing, the width will not fit."

I know all the poplar trees by heart.

Xu Qingshan could understand what was said, but Jiang Huanxi beside him had already started to daydream.

"Why didn't you study microelectronics or communications?"

Xu Qingshan was a little curious.

Since Yang Shu prefers to do these things with his hands, why doesn't he choose a major that allows him to get more exposure to these things?

Yang Shu looked at Xu Qingshan as if he was looking at an idiot.

"I don't want to just work on hardware, and I can't really be considered a hardware expert right now, I can only be considered a DIY guy. If I don't learn computer science and don't understand the principles of computer composition, then I can't build this computer, let alone adapt it and adjust the system."

"Too."

Xu Qingshan realized that he had asked an idiotic question.

It's just that in school he often saw a group of microelectronics students tinkering with circuit boards in the cafeteria or somewhere with tables.

"Keep this idea in mind for now. After this competition is over, we can talk about this in detail."

Xu Qingshan pointed at the small laptop in Yang Shu's hand.

"Oh."

Yang Shu agreed, and the vice president who came to accompany them this time had already made a record and came over to take Xu Qingshan and the others to the hotel to check in.

This time, Mei Hong had something urgent to do and was unable to lead the team, so he had to hand it over to the young vice-president.

But this vice-dean had a kind of gentlemanly friendship that was as light as water. He only did his job the whole time and was nowhere to be seen for other things. This made Xu Qingshan still not know the dean's name, and he just heard others calling him "Vice-dean, Vice-dean".

This time, it’s not just Xu Qingshan’s team that came to Ice City to participate in the competition from Peking University.

There are two other teams, but Xu Qingshan is not very familiar with them.

The team's participation in the competition was not an activity held as a school unit, so it was relatively free. Xu Qingshan also got the information about the competition from the vice president.

The ACM-ICPC World Finals, hosted by Ice City University of Engineering, has 33 teams from 103 countries and regions, with a total of more than 300 participants. Almost all of those who can make it here are elites in the computer field among college students around the world.

Of course, it would be more appropriate to put aside the issue of Xu Qingshan here.

After all, the purpose of others coming here is to become outstanding computer experts in the future.

But this guy was already a computer expert when he came here. He even had his own laboratory at Beijing University. Don't tell me whether he is an expert in mathematics or computer science. Just tell me whether he is awesome or not.

And it’s not just the participating teams that come to the competition site.

The coaching staff from various schools will also come, but they can only watch from the stands. In addition, 32 domestic media outlets including Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, etc. will be present to conduct interviews and reports. Ice City TV will also provide real-time coverage at the scene of the competition during the competition. Even President Liu of Ice City University of Engineering, Vice President Yang, and ACM/ICPC Global Executive Chairman William Puoch will accept real-time interviews from the TV station in the live broadcast room.

For a competition like this that is held only once every few years in China, Chinese people always attach unexpected importance to it. It has been five years since the ICPC World Finals were held in China. The last one was held in 5 at Shanghai Jiaotong University. If we only talk about Asia, it was held in 05 at the University of Tokyo.

Just by walking into the venue, Xu Qingshan felt the importance that Ice City University of Engineering attached to this game.

The venue was very bright, and it seemed to be called the Qihang Theater. A hollow signboard was temporarily set up in the middle of the venue, with an IBM ball that looked like an oversized ping-pong ball embedded in the middle.

Xu Qingshan looked at this not particularly large but very clean venue with great interest.

"Why can't I see any militaristic feeling at all?"

"Maybe they're afraid that those Europeans are afraid this is a concentration camp."

Yangshu suddenly interrupted and told a hell of a joke.

Xu Qingshan blinked, and Yang Shu scratched his head in confusion.

"Isn't it funny?"

"I don't think they'd find it funny."

Xu Qingshan pointed at the white man with deep eye sockets and said.

"I feel like they all look the same as Europeans. Where did these come from? The logos on their clothes don't look very English."

Jiang Huanxi took a few secret glances. She always felt that there was something sinister about that group of people. She didn't even want to look them in the eye.

"That seems to be Hebrew."

Xu Qingshan has been reading French diligently recently. As soon as he started learning French, he was curious and took a general look at the extensions of the major language families in Asia, Africa and Europe. Through the spread of language families, it would be easy to master languages ​​of the same family.

"They are the Color Hunters."

Xu Qingshan said.

"I suddenly remembered an idiom. I'll tell you what it means. Can you tell me what it means in classical Chinese?"

Yang Shu and Jiang Huanxi looked at Xu Qingshan in confusion.

"People are ranked according to their skin color."

After Xu Qingshan finished speaking, Yang Shu was stunned for a moment, but Jiang Huanxi suddenly burst out laughing.

"Big points for puns."

Yang Shu reacted quickly, and a smile finally appeared on his shy face.

The three of them strolled around the venue, chatting and laughing.

He also went upstairs to the stadium to overlook the entire competition venue and analyze how much thought Ice City University of Engineering put into it.

As a result, when I got off the elevator, I met an acquaintance in the elevator.

To be precise, he should be considered to know Xu Qingshan, but Xu Qingshan was not particularly clear about who the other person was acquaintance with.

"OMG! Xu, I can actually meet you here! Do you still remember me? We had a great time chatting at ICML last year!"

The chubby, blond, European white man in front of him greeted Xu Qingshan enthusiastically as he entered the elevator.

"Of course I remember, Huai"

"Huius! Xu! You still remember me! Great, I knew you wouldn't forget me!"

I have some impression of Xu Qingshan. It seems that he came over to say hello to me during dinner and gave me a long self-introduction, but he didn't seem to leave his email address in the end?

"Of course I won't forget you. You're very enthusiastic. Why are you here, Wyus?"

But Xu Qingshan is no longer the young Xu Qingshan. Following the other party's words, he also chatted with the same enthusiasm.

"I came to the University of Warsaw to serve as the director of the computer science department at the end of last year. This time I happened to lead the team to participate in the competition."

"University of Warsaw? Oh, I remember you guys were great at ICPC."

Xu Qingshan was actually a little surprised.

He is worthy of being able to show his face at ICML. Although I don’t have much impression of him, the fact that he can be the head of the department at the University of Warsaw, which is well-known in the European competition area, also proves his ability.

"Of course, Xu, if you are willing to come to our Warsaw University to teach, I will be happy to write a letter of recommendation for you!"

Huaiwusi was really a little too enthusiastic.

"You may not have heard of a legend or anecdote about our University of Warsaw in Europe."

Huaiwusi was very confident, and his chubby face was full of energy, as if he was showing off to Xu Qingshan how promising his children were.

"For European teams in the same regional division as us, we can only say that they are unlucky. Basically, the rankings are bound to be like this in every regional competition."

"First place went to our Warsaw team one. Second place went to our Warsaw team two. Third place went to our Warsaw team three. The places in the regional competition were the teams sent by our Warsaw team. Many schools and teams were proud to be able to surpass our fifth and sixth place team from the University of Warsaw once in the rankings."

"This shows the strength of our Warsaw University, right?"

Huai Wusizhi proudly raised his little eyebrows at Xu Qingshan.

"Of course, if you dominate the entire European region, then I am optimistic that you will win the gold medal this time."

Xu Qingshan's face was full of smiles, and he looked very sincere.

"Thank you for your kind words. I believe we will not let you down. This is my first battle as a student coach, and I am very confident!"

Huaiwusi smiled so hard that his mouth almost split.

But he soon thought of something and asked casually.

"By the way, Xu, what are you doing here? Are you here as a volunteer expert? Or are you here to be a coach? I remember that there seemed to be several teams from your Jingcheng University coming here to participate in the competition."

"me?"

"Yes, I would like my students to ask you for advice, if you are not busy."

"That might not work."

Xu Qingshan scratched his head and smiled innocently.

"I'm a contestant, and I'm here to participate."

Wythe:.
(End of this chapter)