Technological Supremacy Chapter 176: Massachusetts storm, Enron negotiations failed
?North America, Boston.
An Ran hung up the phone. Actually, he had nothing special to call Luo Jia. It was just that when he was resting on the plane, he suddenly remembered the multi-link system experiment that the hardware department was doing. It seemed that a new Algorithm, so ask for Luo Jia's opinion.
No way, An Ran is such a workaholic, thinking about problems even when he sleeps, since he joined Xingchen Technology, An Ran has been using his life to fight.
After hearing An Ran's words, Luo Jia said that tonight, he would start rebuilding a mathematical model.
An Ran felt relieved at this moment. As soon as he walked out of the airport, he saw two familiar faces in the crowd. One of them was his junior sister Ping Yuying, and the other was his classmate, who is now in Massachusetts. Qi Mengzhou is a professor.
Ping Yuying is still dressed as a cute little lolita, while Qi Mengzhou is already 28 years old, a mature royal sister, she wears a **** dress and high heels, and carries a lemon-colored bag in her hand, with a protruding figure Alice, with long hair and shawls, obviously dressed up seriously.
The winter in Boston is extremely cold, Qi Mengzhou put on a long windbreaker over the dress, but in order to greet An Ran, what a little cold is nothing.
An Ran smiled and walked towards the two of them.
In fact, he has never lacked suitors. The reason why he is single is not because no one wants him, but purely because of his workaholic personality. This Professor Qi Mengzhou is one of An Ran's fanatical suitors.
"Why are you here?" An Ran asked.
"Of course I'm here to pick up my brother, it's cold outside, let's get in the car quickly." Hiraha Sakura said while covering her frozen red face.
Qi Mengzhou drove, and the three of them went to the hotel that An Ran had reserved.
To a certain extent, a person with a super high IQ will not have a low EQ. An Ran smiled and said to Ping Yuying, "Luo Jia is pretty good. Although he made friends with a star, he is still single."
Ping Yuying's face turned red again, she came to pick An Ran up just to inquire about Luo Jia.
And An Ran told her so frankly that Luo Jia was still single, which made Ping Yuying shy, but at the same time, she inevitably began to think wildly in her heart.
"What about you? Are you single too?" Qi Mengzhou who was driving asked.
"Me?" An Ran smiled, "I'm very busy with work, I don't have time to think about other things."
"By the way, what exactly is the school board thinking? In previous years, there would always be some undergraduate places reserved for the Huaxia region. This year they suddenly canceled them. Aren't they afraid of causing criticism?"
Qi Mengzhou pouted, An Ran is too smart, once it comes to a question about himself, he will immediately change the topic, An Ran has always been like this all these years of acquaintance.
"What's the criticism? Massachusetts is a private university that doesn't enroll students from Huaxia, and keeps more places in the mainland. Apart from Huaxia's displeasure, North America is very happy."
"Besides, it's just that undergraduates are not accepted, master's and doctoral students will still have places in Huaxia."
An Ran looked out the window and said calmly, "Both Luo Jia and I feel that this seemingly insignificant incident may become a series of bad beginnings. Before Massachusetts, it was Harvard that restricted the number of Chinese. , Perhaps in the future, more similar incidents will happen, this is what we are most worried about.”
Qi Mengzhou nodded slightly. Although the proportion of Chinese people studying in North America is very high, behind this is the huge population base of Huaxia, as well as the amazing quality and talent of Huaxia students.
In North America, private university admissions look like this.
If you want to study in Massachusetts, 400 points is enough for black students, 450 points for Latinos, 500 points for whites, and the worst is the East Asian group headed by Huaxia, which needs 600 points.
This is the **** racial balance policy in North America. In order to ensure the balance of all ethnic groups on campus, students with different skin colors have completely different admission standards.
Due to the super high academic performance of Huaxia and the entire East Asian ethnic group, their admission standards have always been the highest, none of them.
Although there are many Huaxia faces in Massachusetts, each of them has a much higher grade than the others, and squeezed in based on their strength.
In Berkeley, California, which implements fair admissions based on merit, 40% of the students are Asian, and there are very few black students.
The car stopped at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Boston. An Ran was the vice president of Star Technology, and naturally carried out the highest standard on business trips. The administrative department booked him a presidential suite, and the nightly accommodation cost was as high as 9,500 US dollars.
After putting down the luggage, An Ran went into the room to take a shower and change clothes. Qi Mengzhou leaned on the sofa and looked at the extremely luxurious room. It's a class, it's really not comparable to a poor professor like myself.
After a while, An Ran walked out of the room. He changed into a neat suit and tie, and he looked heroic, like a business elite.
"Brother is so handsome!" Ping Yuying said with bright eyes.
Qi Mengzhou felt her heart pounding, she walked over, helped An Ran straighten her tie, and asked curiously, "Why are you so formal today?"
"I hope to leave a good impression on the principal." An Ran shrugged. Save your hands."
"Do you want to attack Massachusetts?" Qi Mengzhou was puzzled, "You are a company, and Massachusetts is a university, so let's not get along at all."
An Ran said, "I don't know whether to get along, but I believe that Luo Jia will always find a way. If that's the case, I will go to persuade him at that time."
Qi Mengzhou laughed, "It turns out that you didn't want Xingchen Technology and Massachusetts to fall out, so you came to solve the problem yourself, let's go, no matter what, let's go to eat first."
"Yes." An Ran nodded.
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Raphael Love has been the principal of MIT since 2012. He is a big name in the electrical field and has a good reputation among students.
An Ran is now considered an outstanding alumnus from Massachusetts, so his request was quickly approved. Principal Raphael took time out of his busy schedule to meet An Ran in person.
As soon as the two met, Principal Raphael enthusiastically asked about energy wave wireless charging, supercapacitors, batteries, electronic controls, and everything he cared about.
After all, Principal Raphael is an electrical engineer, and Star Technology's wireless charging and supercapacitors are his old profession.
An Ran answered fluently, and at the same time, he also paid great attention to the company's confidentiality rules.
Not long after, Principal Raphael held up his chin in disappointment, and muttered to An Ran, "Hey, I really hope to go to your company and see the supercapacitor with my own eyes, after all, it is going to change the energy field of the whole world." Great invention."
An Ran smiled, "As far as I know, the deep-sea energy storage technology jointly researched by North America and Germany is also very good. In terms of energy storage, our advantage is actually not too great."
Dean Raphael waved his hands again and again, "You Huaxia people are too modest. Deep-sea energy storage has a cost advantage, but its efficiency is much lower than yours. In short, I am strongly optimistic about your super capacitor project. After all, you What the Germans are doing is technological breakthroughs, while the Germans are only making engineering breakthroughs, and the two are not at the same level.”
Unexpectedly, Dean Rafael was so optimistic about supercapacitors, An Ran was a little surprised.
They talked for a long time, but An Ran really couldn't see that this old man with electrical background had any attempt to attack China.
In fact, he likes An Ran very much, and also likes those smart Huaxia students in the school, and he is full of praise for them.
An Ran frowned and decided to change the subject, so he talked about Xingchen Industrial Software.
Principal Raphael immediately beamed with joy, and he was also full of praise for the computational fluid dynamics of Xingchen Technology.
In his view, Star Industry will surely become the world's most powerful industrial software cluster in the near future, creating a new era of automated industrial design.
The whole meeting did not mean any tension at all. Dean Raphael kept praising An Ran and Xingchen Technology.
Even he does not object to the publication of the Chinese version of Star Journal, and believes that since those scientific research results are made by Star Technology, Star Technology has the right to decide which language to publish.
Of course, Principal Rafael also expressed his regret. The fact that he couldn't understand the Star Journal really annoyed him, but fortunately, there are many Chinese students among his students. It was these lovely Chinese students who helped him .
After thinking about it for a while, An Ran roughly understood why Principal Rafael looked at things in such an attitude. He was born in Venezuela and came to North America to study when he was an adult, so he is not the kind of patriotic The southern redneck, more like an internationalist.
It doesn't matter to President Rafael whether Xingchen Technology is a Huaxia company or a North American company, as long as it can promote the continuous progress of mankind, he will support them all.
Thinking of this, An Ran couldn't help but sighed, "Mr. Principal, I'm afraid that starting from next year, the matter of no longer recruiting Huaxia undergraduates has nothing to do with you, right?"
Principal Rafael was startled suddenly, and with rare strong anger, he reprimanded the school board for ignorance in front of An Ran. This lovely and respectable old gentleman has always firmly believed that science has no borders.
He even showed An Ran his resignation letter. It turned out that Principal Rafael was very angry because of the decision of the undergraduate department to no longer recruit freshmen from Huaxia, and had already submitted his resignation letter to the school board.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the number one science and engineering institution in the world, a sacred place for science and engineering, and the principal must not be sloppy. Therefore, during the period when the new principal has not been appointed, Mr. Stable, for the time being, I still manage the school with all my heart.
The situation has been fully clarified. The matter of not recruiting Huaxia undergraduates has nothing to do with the school. It is the decision of the school board and the financiers behind the school board.
In North America and China, there is a trend that graduates of science and engineering like to switch to finance. After all, finance is largely related to mathematics. It is easy for science and engineering graduates who are good at mathematics to switch to finance.
Behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there is the power of the North American financial community. A large part of the financial resources of private universities comes from alumni donations, and these generous alumni control the school board of directors and the school's personnel appointments and admissions policies .
So, the so-called academic independence is simply a joke.
If a person wants to be independent in personality, he first needs to be financially independent. If a university wants to be academically independent, it also needs to be financially independent as a basis.
Scholars like Principal Raphael actually cannot decide many things.
An Ran walked out of Principal Raphael's office in great disappointment, stood on the familiar campus where she was studying, and called Luo Jia.
There will be no negotiations at all, everything is decided by the school board and the financial forces behind the school board.
In the confrontation between Google and Stellar Technology, Wall Street suffered heavy losses in the previous mobile phone war and the subsequent industrial software war without exception. Presumably they should hate Star Tech.
An Ran told Luo Jia all about the situation in Massachusetts.
"I think ~IndoMTL.com~ is better not to engage in Massachusetts. If we use those rogue lawyers to establish Massachusetts, the entire academic community will be bored with us. Before our Star Journal did not have an English version, it has already It has caused a lot of criticism in the academic circle."
An Ran suggested to Luo Jia that he did not want Star Technology and the academic world to get involved. After all, the company's battle line was already very long. Even Luo Jia himself said that he did not want to be besieged by the whole world.
"I understand the truth." Luo Jia said on the phone, "What did you say just now?"
"Which sentence?"
"About Dean Rafael, you said he is planning to resign from Massachusetts?"
An Ran was stunned for a moment, "I said it, Principal Raphael is very angry with the decision of the school board, and has already written his resignation letter."
"Is that so..." Luo Jia murmured on the other end of the phone.
"You...what are you going to do?" An Ran frowned and asked curiously.