Chapter 40: Invitation from Stanford
In the blink of an eye, Duke received a gre score, and unexpectedly did not get a full score. The composition was 6 points, while Duke only got 5 points. Obviously, the teacher who judged the paper thought that a normal candidate could not write such an excellent essay in such a short time. Especially the Western allusions quoted were as seamless as memorizing it in advance. Given that Chinese candidates have always prepared for the exam "excellent performance", Duke's perfect essay has the biggest flaw. This logic is fucking, but it is an indisputable fact of the gre exam. In terms of exams, very few students around the world can compare with Chinese students who have been through the exam for a long time. Perhaps only the island dwarves in the East Asian Circle and the sticks on the peninsula can barely compete with each other.
Duke doesn't care about the essay score that was unexpectedly lost, and it's rare to apply for verification. Judging from his essays, although it's very likely to regain this score, the score has exceeded the introductory score of MIT in previous years, which is enough. For a strong school like MIT, gre score is not omnipotent, and even without gre scores, it's absolutely impossible. For Duke, as long as he can meet the threshold for entry, it's better to rely on that pioneering professional paper on improving speech recognition technology to impress a famous MIT professor. As long as he convinces his future boss, the key to moving to MIT is to convince him.
However, Duke has not received a reply from Jacm for a long time, which makes him feel a little uneasy. Could it be that this level still cannot reach the eyes of Jacm editors? Then he still wants to rely on this paper to pry open the door of MIT. Now it seems that it is a bit unreliable?
On that day, Duke opened his online email as usual and suddenly found an English letter sent by a stranger:
“Dear Mr. Duke:
Hello, I am Professor Smith from Stanford University. As a special reviewer at Jacm, I am very happy to see a breakthrough technical paper on the field of speech recognition. Regarding the new speech recognition technology principle you proposed, I personally think it has strong feasibility and good practical prospects. I still have several questions: First, have you developed related prototype applications based on this principle? Second, regarding semantic intelligent context recognition..."
"Finally, please forgive my presumption. I have another unhappy request. Are you interested in conducting more in-depth research on speech recognition at Stanford University? As the director of the Stanford Voice Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, I am very much looking forward to the arrival of Mr. Duke."
After reading the email from Professor Smith that unexpectedly appeared in his email, Duke couldn't help but feel a sense of relief. The manuscript he submitted had not been moved for so long, Duke had lost confidence, but now it seems that he is still too anxious. Duke read the letter again, and when he saw the last paragraph of the email, he suddenly remembered whether he had encountered an international liar, right?
Thinking about the various scammers in China, Duke felt more suspicious the more he thought about it. How could a professor from a famous university invite someone to visit and study? Could this be the scammer pretended to be a professor to trick him into thinking of this possibility? Duke began to search for Professor Smith online based on the information in Professor Smith's email.
As expected, there is a tenured professor like Smith. After searching for Smith's achievements, Duke found that Smith is actually a very powerful figure. Especially in terms of speech recognition and artificial intelligence, basically speaking at various international academic conferences in recent years, and there are quite a few papers and monographs published, many of which have been widely cited. There are even a few of the speech recognition papers he collected in the original form of Professor Smith's works, but he didn't read them carefully at the time and threw them all to Kerry. Looking back, Professor Smith is actually a master-level figure.
After verifying Professor Smith's ins and outs, Duke breathed a sigh of relief. Since this professor had no problem, this email looked reliable. Although he didn't know why he got into Professor Smith's eyes, the invitation still made Duke's heart beat.
You should know that Stanford University is recognized as one of the most outstanding universities in the world, just like MIT. It has always ranked among the top few in the United States. It has its own advantages and advantages, especially in the modern high-tech industry. Stanford has a strong influence. Some well-known international IT industry giants, such as HP, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems (although it has been acquired by Oracle), Nvidia, Yahoo, Cisco, Silicon Valley Graphics and Google, are all from Stanford. The great reputation of Silicon Valley in the United States can be said to be more than half of the founders of Stanford.
If Duke's ambition is to develop in the IT industry, Stanford is the only choice. What's more, there are now master-level professors who have offered to invite olive branches, opening the door to Stanford for Duke.
Duke couldn't help but feel a little moved. He further studied the difference between Stanford and MIT, especially in the future, where he was preparing to participate in in-depth research majors, computer, mechanical engineering, communication engineering and other schools, rankings were almost the same, and they were basically among the best, but Stanford's nuclear energy engineering was really bad. Seeing this, Duke couldn't help but sigh. It was a pity. Thinking that this major was his future focus, Duke had to regretfully choose Stanford as a candidate.
Since he had basically confirmed Smith's identity in his heart, Duke threw the complicated technical problems in his letter to Kerry, and simply replied directly by himself, and quickly completed the reply, and sent it with the sala input method. Although sala is currently mainly used to identify Chinese, Duke did not want to launch it now before the current profit model was well verified. I think Professor Smith will find a suitable person to try and verify it.
For the sake of confidentiality, Duke now provides no open English recognition interface, nor does it release the English voice and semantic data feature library. Duke was still scared by Kurui's company for such a stealing case. Since this technology is so valuable, Duke thinks it is safer to be conservative. Anyway, what he releases now is enough to keep Saal Company busy for a year or two.
Of course, at the end of the reply, Duke thanked Professor Smith for his invitation and said that he would consider this issue very carefully. Of course, if Duke's application at MIT was not approved, this careful consideration would soon become very happy.
Chapter completed!