After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 368 Professor Zhou, please advise.
The people in the office were all a little taken aback.

What's the situation?
Didn't we say we were united in our hatred of the Japanese devils?
Why are you smiling at me like that?
Ning Yuanjia quietly instructed everyone to pack up what needed to be packed and not to leak the secret.

Zhou Haoran, on the other hand, remained calm and composed.

There are no secrets in this laboratory at all.

The other party, a guy wearing glasses, introduced himself, saying he was a PhD from the University of Tokyo and his name was Kawaguchi or something like that.

“Mr. Zhou Haoren, our professor originally did not plan to come to China. I was in charge of this project handover.” Dr. Kawaguchi was still very polite and stood properly. “I heard that you were personally in charge of Fudan’s campus card project, so I specially invited our professor to come.”

This is spoken in English.

None of the students in the lab had ever been abroad, and their English proficiency was generally poor.

My listening comprehension is already not very good, so listening to this Japanese-accented English is even more difficult for me.

Zhou Haoran understood, and asked everyone to sit down, smiling broadly: "What? Professor Fukuda came here specifically to compete with me for this project?"

"no no!"

Dr. Kawaguchi's expression changed slightly; he had been sitting, but now he stood up again.

Another student nearby said, "We came here specifically to visit you!"

"Oh."

Zhou Haoran smiled; it was pretty much as he had guessed.

That's probably the case!

He was puzzled at first.

Why is a professor from the University of Tokyo here? It's just a campus card project; the technology involved isn't that advanced. Besides, Fudan University's introduction of a campus card system is a business deal, not an academic one.

Sending a PhD to demonstrate the results should suffice.

Zhou Haoran once thought that Vice Principal Zhang Xuezhen had specially invited Professor Fukuda from the University of Tokyo to suppress him.

It seems not.

“Mr. Zhou Haoren, I have come here specifically to pay my respects to you.” Professor Fukuda did not stand up, but sat with a slight bow. “I have studied every single one of your academic papers. I even formed a special discussion group to study your dozen or so papers on distributed systems, and the students I brought with me today are members of that group.”

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, nice to meet you."

Professor Fukuda remarked with emotion, "Professor Muto from Stanford is a good friend of mine. He once told me that you were a young man, and seeing you today, I never expected you to be so young."

The other party was too polite, which made Zhou Haoran lose all his pride. He smiled and said, "I've liked electronics since I was a child. I got into computers a few years ago and I guess I have some talent for it."

"Professor Zhou is too modest." Professor Fukuda changed his form of address again. "I came here specifically to pay my respects to you. I hope that when you have time, you can visit the University of Tokyo for some academic exchanges. Many professors and scholars there highly praise your papers."

Zhou Haoran thought to himself that this person was quite senior and of a high rank to be able to extend an invitation on behalf of the University of Tokyo, but he said tactfully, "If I have time, I will definitely go!"

"Thank you! Thank you!"

Professor Fukuda's humble manner was almost embarrassing.

Even the young men in the lab were staring at each other blankly.

Although I couldn't understand much, something felt off.

I was originally planning to roll up my sleeves and get to work, but now that I've gotten involved, it seems like it's not like that at all.

It seems the other party wasn't there for the campus card program.

They came specifically to become apprentices and learn skills!
Zhou Haoran didn't have time to beat around the bush and asked, "Professor Fukuda, what do you think of this campus card project?"

"Sigh..." Professor Fukuda waved his hand with a smile, looked at his student Dr. Kawaguchi beside him, "I hope he can take this opportunity to learn a lot from Professor Zhou."

Dr. Kawaguchi stood up again, stood at attention, bowed, and said, "Professor Zhou, please enlighten me!"

Zhou Haoran said calmly, "It seems our school leaders want to bring in your product to replace my project. Judging by its appearance, your product must be technologically superior, right?"

"How could that be?" Professor Fukuda's expression changed slightly. "We came here specifically to consult with you, Kawaguchi?"

Dr. Kawaguchi quickly explained.

He mentioned that he spearheaded the development of the University of Tokyo's campus card project, which involved very little technical expertise. Hearing that Fudan University was interested in adopting the project, he reported it to the university and then happily came over.

The original intention was to conduct a technology demonstration for the public.

Later, when I heard that Fudan University had a self-developed project, and that the famous Zhou Haoren was in charge, I completely changed my mind and invited Professor Fukuda over.

The technical demonstration was changed to a technical consultation.

Dr. Kawaguchi also said that his campus card project still has many bugs that have not been resolved.

There are some bugs that he has been researching for years, but he still hasn't been able to fix them.

I would appreciate your guidance.

Zhou Haoran nodded and said calmly, "Product output and technology demonstration are good things. But there's a prerequisite: the product must be excellent enough. Dr. Kawaguchi, since your product has so many problems, why didn't you explain it to our school leaders beforehand?"

"Huh?" Dr. Kawaguchi was startled. "Professor Zhou, before I came here, I had already sent a document to your school, describing some of the problems with my campus card program."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Haoran immediately understood the situation and calmly said, "It's possible that there was a shortage of materials, which led our school leaders to believe that your product is perfect, even better than the product developed by my team, and they want to adopt your solution."

"This……"

Dr. Kawaguchi was greatly alarmed.

Professor Fukuda, despite his age, often encountered disagreements between the university and professors. He immediately reacted, glaring at Dr. Kawaguchi, and said, "Withdraw your project immediately!" "Withdrawal is fine. We're supposed to have a presentation later, everything's arranged, don't change it arbitrarily." Seeing that the other party wasn't defiant, Zhou Haoran felt relieved. "Dr. Kawaguchi, is there anything you don't understand about the campus card project?"

"Ah? Now?"

Dr. Kawaguchi was very excited.

Professor Fukuda was also very pleased and said, "Professor Zhou is going to give you some pointers!"

Dr. Kawaguchi thought for a moment and said, "There are still many things I don't understand about my campus card... For example, when many cards are in the range of the card reader at the same time, it will cause the card reading to fail, or even the data to be corrupted. This has happened several times in the cafeteria, and the balance on the card has been incorrect due to this interference."

Zhou Haoran didn't quite understand the reason, so he turned around and looked at him. "Dr. Ning, what do you think?"

Ning Yuanjia explained in somewhat broken English: “It’s a problem with the communication protocol that caused the RF collision. This is an unavoidable issue; the main thing is to take preventative measures in the background. For example, only one process can be started and one card can be read within every two seconds, reducing the card reading frequency. This can effectively prevent data corruption.”

"This……"

Dr. Kawaguchi was immediately stunned.

Professor Fukuda smiled slightly and looked at the students beside him, "Professor Zhou's doctoral students are far more capable than you all!"

Dr. Kawaguchi wanted to ask another question.

Zhou Haoran interrupted, waving his hand, "The campus card is just a small project, and there are many things I haven't looked into. If you have any questions, you can talk to Dr. Ning later. He has already graduated and will be joining Zhongbo Software soon. If you need anything, you can contact Zhongbo Software."

I'd like to ask you, why should I tell you?

This kind of small project doesn't meet the standards for academic exchange.

Let's stick to the market.

If you want to learn, seek technical support from Zhongbo Software or purchase IT services!

"Kawaguchi, you should consult with Dr. Ning more often in the future."

Professor Fukuda could understand, because he didn't know much about the University of Tokyo's campus card project either; he was just a nominal advisor, and it was the doctoral students who were actually doing it.

Given Zhou Haoren's status as an academic heavyweight, he certainly wouldn't get involved in such trivial matters.

Zhou Haoran looked at Professor Fukuda and said with a smile, "Professor Fukuda, will you be there for the presentation of the results of our campus cards later?"

"I'm not going..."

Professor Fukuda didn't come for this purpose; he wanted to take this opportunity to get to know Zhou Haoran and then invite this academic luminary to Tokyo for academic exchange.

Zhou Haoran invited, "Let's go. It's better to make some things clear."

"it is good."

Professor Fukuda understood and they agreed to go together.

……

Vice Principal Zhang Xuezhen initially thought it was just a minor matter.

Are there any issues with introducing the University of Tokyo's campus card?

Unexpectedly, that kid Zhou Haoran was not convinced!

They even went to complain.

Under the coordination of school leaders, the two sides will have a head-to-head competition.

Who gave him the courage?

Are they going to go head-to-head with the technical team from the University of Tokyo?
Well, things have gotten out of hand now.

Even Professor Fukuda, a renowned computer expert from the University of Tokyo, personally came to China.

He is a world-renowned computer expert!
Now, Vice Principal Zhang Xuezhen felt even more confident.

That kid Zhou Haoran wanted to make a move in public; there was no way to stop him.

However, something unexpected happened this morning.

City leaders came to conduct research.

The conversation turned to the technical support project for the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and inquired about the progress of the campus card development... Then, I learned that the University of Tokyo team and the Fudan University team would be giving a public and positive presentation of their results.

Vice Mayor Jiang was very interested.

I want to go and watch it live.

This made the school leaders nervous and feel very embarrassed.

That's a team from the University of Tokyo!

Fudan University is considered a top-tier university in the country.

However, everything is in ruins and development is urgently needed.

On a global scale, it's not in the same league as the University of Tokyo; it needs at least another 10 to 20 years of development to reach that level.

If Fudan's team were to be defeated by the Japanese team, it wouldn't just be Zhou Haoran who would lose face, but every university leader present. Losing in a competition isn't terrible, but losing to a Japanese team is more likely to be blown out of proportion.

Vice Principal Zhang Xuezhen was in a bit of a dilemma.

(End of this chapter)