The cold wind on the streets of Zurich could not dampen Fang Lang's enthusiasm. He walked and stopped along the way, and unknowingly arrived outside the University of Zurich.
Looking at this historical university in front of him, Fang Lang's heart was full of envy and he asked the assistant beside him:
“Do you know this university?”
The assistant is a third-generation German immigrant young man with blond hair who looks very handsome. He was able to enter Fangyuan Group and become one of Fang Lang's assistants. He graduated from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
However, the founding time and historical and cultural heritage of the University of São Paulo cannot be compared with that of the University of Zurich.
This is like the feeling of a college student in later generations visiting Tsinghua University.
The assistant was looking at the world-renowned university with a beaming face. After hearing Fang Lang's question, he nodded quickly and said:
"Boss, of course I know. This is Einstein's alma mater."
Fang Lang looked at his assistant's longing expression and smiled.
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"Let's go in and take a look."
The full name of the University of Zurich is Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. The old campus is located in the center of Zurich and is completely integrated with the city. It has no school gates or walls.
Therefore, Fang Lang, who had lived two lives, had the opportunity to visit for the first time. Perhaps it was because of the cold weather, but apart from the occasional young person, not many people passed by outside the school.
It looked a bit deserted, but Fang Lang could see through the windows of the teaching building that there were students studying in class. In this case, it was of course not easy for Fang Lang to go into the teaching building to visit and study.
"What do you think about us building a university like this in Brazil?"
Walking and stopping along the way, Fang Lang asked the assistant beside him.
"ah!"
The assistant beside him was looking around in confusion and didn't know how to answer Fang Lang's question.
Fang Lang actually didn't really want to hear the answer from the assistant.
However, he was already planning to build a research university in Rio Grande do Sul to serve his own country, so that Chinese people would have the opportunity to directly learn the world's cutting-edge scientific knowledge in the future.
I don’t know if he was thinking about how to answer Fang Lang’s question, but the assistant who was looking around accidentally bumped into a middle-aged white man who was about thirty-six or thirty-seven years old.
The stack of documents in the white man's hand scattered all over the floor. Upon seeing this, the assistant hurried forward and kept apologizing, and bent down to help the other party pick up the documents on the floor.
Fang Lang also looked embarrassed and bent down to help pick up the information on the ground. The information was all in German, which Fang Lang could not understand, but one of the drawings caught Fang Lang's attention.
Fang Lang was shocked because the buttons drawn on the drawing were marked with numbers and symbols of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, which made his heart beat wildly.
Are there already computers in this era? Unfortunately, Fang Lang did not study computer science or electronic engineering. Therefore, Fang Lang did not know when computers appeared.
But looking at the drawing in front of him, Fang Lang felt that even if this was not a computer, it was definitely a calculator.
I just don't know whether this thing is purely mechanical or electronic.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Fang Lang cleared his throat and said:
"Sir, I apologize for my assistant's recklessness!"
The assistant beside him also hurriedly translated. The middle-aged man looked up at Fang Lang and the people standing behind Fang Lang. After hearing what the assistant said, he realized that the young yellow man in front of him was his boss.
He smiled very gently, nodded at Fang Lang and said:
“It’s okay, and I can’t blame him. I think he is coming to this university for the first time just like me.
So it’s normal to be distracted.”
Hearing the other party say that this was also his first time at this university, Fang Lang was stunned. He looked at the information in his hand and then at the other party's expression.
Judging from his age, he is definitely not a student, so I thought he was a teacher in this school.
"Oh! Sir, isn't he a professor of this school?"
The middle-aged white man sorted out the documents in his hand and said:
"No, I just moved to Switzerland from Germany not long ago. I encountered a small problem in my research and wanted to come to the Zurich Institute of Technology to seek some help."
Fang Lang looked at the information in the other party's hand and felt a little excited. Could it be that he met a wild scientist?
Wasn't the computer invented by Americans?
Did this guy later go to the United States to develop his career?
"Oh! Are you studying computers?"
Fang Lang's words obviously shocked the white man in front of him. He looked up at Fang Lang with wide eyes and said with an expression of disbelief:
"You know computers?"
Fang Lang certainly knew about computers, but what he knew about were computers of later generations.
As for whether the current computers had already appeared, he was not particularly clear, but he clearly remembered that when he visited Bell Labs, transistors had not yet been successfully researched.
Even if there are electronic computers in this period, they must be vacuum tube computers, but we don’t know what their performance is.
I don’t know the specific situation, but that doesn’t stop Fang Lang from bragging.
"Of course, the Bell Labs in the United States where I invested is conducting relevant research."
In fact, the first electronic computer in the United States was born in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, and it has little to do with Bell Labs.
However, in Fang Lang's mind, Bell Labs is the greatest existence of this era, so he put this hat on Bell Labs without hesitation.
"You mean, there are other people in the world doing related research."
The middle-aged white man's reaction was somewhat beyond Fang Lang's expectations. He couldn't help but feel nervous. Could it be that the United States hasn't started researching computers yet?
If you pretend to be too cool, it would be embarrassing.
But the words had already been spoken, Fang Lang certainly couldn't back down, nor could he answer the other party's question directly, so he could only ask back:
"Hey! Haven't you communicated with your colleagues?"
Fang Lang's question obviously hit the man's pain point.
The man blushed and said embarrassedly:
"I used to live in Germany and had little communication with other countries in the world. So I didn't know that other countries were also conducting related research."
I took a careful look at the man in front of me. He had a neatly slicked back hair, wore a pair of black-framed glasses, and his coat looked fairly neat.
But Fang Lang could also see that the other party's financial conditions were not particularly good.
After thinking it over in his mind, Fang Lang extended his hand to the other party and politely introduced himself:
"Hello! My name is Fang Lang, I am of Chinese descent from Brazil. I wonder if I would be honored to invite you for a cup of coffee."
The middle-aged white man obviously wanted to get some of the latest news about computers from Fang Lang, so he said without hesitation:
"Of course. My name is Conrad Zuse. I'm glad to meet you. I hope to ask you some latest news about electronic computers."
After exchanging pleasantries, the two of them went straight to a roadside cafe.
The environment of the cafe is very nice, and the two found a corner seat against the wall and sat down.
Originally, Conrad Chuze wanted to find a seat by the window, but Fang Lang now has a kind of persecution delusion and feels that there are always villains who want to harm him.
So, he just hid in the hidden corner of the wall.
"Mr. Chu Ze, I wonder what stage your computer research has reached and whether it has been put into practice?"
In order to take the initiative in the conversation, Fang Lang took the lead in asking about Conrad Chuze's research progress.
Since Fang Lang was the first person who could communicate with him about computer technology, Conrad Chuze did not hide anything and answered directly:
"I started studying computers in 1938, and my latest progress is the successful development of the Z-4 electromagnetic electronic computer in 1945. The memory unit has also been expanded from the 64-bit Z-3 to 1024 bits.
As for applications, the previous generation Z-3 has been used by us to analyze the data of the aircraft's biplane flutter stability, which has played a huge role."
Hearing this answer, Fang Lang's heart was filled with shock. Isn't this the perfect template for the protagonist?
You can meet the real great god just by strolling around. At this moment, Fang Lang's eyes began to shine, or it can be said that Conrad Chuze was a shining treasure in Fang Lang's eyes.
When the other party mentioned data analysis, Fang Lang recalled some memories about computers. He remembered that during World War II, there was a Turing Award for computers. The name of this award came from a scientist named Turing.
The research done by this scientist seems to be about computers, but unlike the direction used by Conrad Zuse, the main application direction of Turing computer seems to be code breaking.
It seems that Britain also had computer technology during this period, and if Britain had it, the United States must have had it as well.
It seems that his boast was not blown out of proportion, but Fang Lang had no way of knowing the current progress of computer technology research in Britain and the United States.
But one thing is certain, that is, the Mr. Conrad Zuse in front of us is definitely a heavyweight figure in the history of computers.
I absolutely cannot let such a person slip away from me. I was just thinking about establishing my own experimental university. Why not start by setting up a computer research laboratory and establish a research university.
"Mr. Chu Ze, as far as I know, during the war, a British scientist named Turing developed a computer that was used to decipher German codes.
As for who is faster or slower in your research progress, that is not something I can know.
However, I have to say that you must be a talented scientist, because scientists in Britain and the United States have a certain degree of communication, and you actually started research alone in Germany and succeeded in your research. "
Fang Lang gave a thumbs up to the middle-aged man in front of him.
But after hearing Fang Lang's words, the other party said in a somewhat dejected tone:
"Unfortunately, my Z-4 computer has been taken away by the British. Now I can only do some research on computer software theory."
After hearing the computer software theory, Fang Lang became even more certain that the middle-aged man opposite him was definitely a treasure, a super treasure.
Isn't this programming?
The role of programming in future computers is all too clear.
At this moment, Fang Lang's idea was to tie up Mr. Conrad Chuze in front of him and take him to Brazil.
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