Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat

  Chapter 217 Conrad Zuse

  The cold wind on the streets of Zurich couldn't dampen Fang Lang's enthusiasm, so he stopped and walked all the way, and unknowingly came to the outside of the University of Zurich.

  Looking at the university full of history in front of him, Fang Lang was full of envy and asked the assistant beside him:

   "Do you know this university?"

  The assistant is a three-generation German immigrant young man with blond hair who looks very handsome. Being able to enter the Fangyuan Group and become one of Fang Lang's assistants, he graduated from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.

  However, the University of Sao Paulo’s establishment time and historical and cultural heritage cannot be compared with the University of Zurich in front of it.

  This is like the déjà vu of a junior college student visiting Tsinghua Garden in later generations.

  The assistant is looking at the world famous school in front of him with a bright face at the moment. 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 the assistant's yearning expression, smiled and said:

   "Come on, let's go in and have a look."

  The full name of the University of Zurich is ETH Zurich. The old campus is located in the center of Zurich and is completely integrated with the city. There are no school gates or walls.

  So, Fang Lang, who has been a man for two generations, had the opportunity to visit for the first time. I don't know if it was because of the cold weather. Except for young people who occasionally walked by, there were not many people passing by outside the school.

   It looks a little deserted, but Fang Lang can see through the windows of the teaching building that there are students studying in class. Of course, Fang Lang is not easy to enter the teaching building to visit and study in this case.

   "You said, how about we build a university like this in Brazil?"

   Stopping all the way, Fang Lang asked the assistant beside him.

"what!"

  The assistant beside him was looking around dizzyingly, and didn't know how to answer Fang Lang's question for a while.

   Fang Lang actually didn't want to hear the answer from the assistant's mouth.

  However, he is already thinking in his heart that he will build a research university in Rio Grande do Sul to serve his own country, and in the future, he will give Chinese people the opportunity to directly learn the world's cutting-edge scientific knowledge.

   I don't know if I was thinking about how to answer Fang Lang's question, but the assistant looking around accidentally bumped into a middle-aged white man who was about thirty-six or seventeen years old.

  The stack of materials in the hands of the white man was scattered all over the floor. Seeing this, the assistant hurriedly stepped forward to apologize, and bent down to help him pick up the materials on the ground.

  Fang Lang also looked embarrassed, and bent down to help pick up the materials on the ground. The materials were all in German, and Fang Lang couldn't understand them, but one of the drawings caught Fang Lang's attention.

  Because the few buttons drawn on this drawing were marked with numbers and the symbols of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, Fang Lang was taken aback and his heart beat wildly.

   Are there computers in this era? It's a pity that Fang Lang didn't major in computer or electronic engineering. Therefore, Fang Lang didn't know when computers appeared.

   But looking at the blueprint in front of him, Fang Lang felt that even if it wasn't 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 around him also quickly translated. The middle-aged man looked up at Fang Lang and the few people standing behind Fang Lang. Hearing what the assistant said, he understood that the young yellow man in front of him was his boss.

   smiled very gently, nodded to Fang Lang and said:

   "It doesn't matter, and I can't blame him, I think he came to this university for the first time like me.

   So, it's normal to be distracted. "

  Hearing that the other party said that it was also the first time for him to come to this university, Fang Lang was taken aback, looked at the information in his hand, and then at the other party's appearance.

  In terms of age, he is definitely not a student, and he thought the other party was a teacher of this school.

   "Oh! Sir, aren't you a professor at this school?"

  The middle-aged white man said while sorting out the materials in his hand:

   "No, I just moved from Germany to Switzerland not long ago, and I encountered a small problem in my research. I want to come to Zurich Institute of Technology to seek some help."

  Fang Lang looked at the information in the other party's hand, and his heart was a little hot. Did he meet a wild scientist?

   Isn't the computer invented by Yankees?

   Did this guy later go to the United States to develop?

   "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-eyed eyes, and said with an unbelievable expression:

   "You know about computers?"

   Of course Fang Lang knows about computers, but what he knows are computers of later generations.

  As for whether the current computer has appeared, he is really not very clear, but he clearly remembers that when he visited Bell Labs, the transistor had not been successfully researched.

  Even if there is an electronic computer in this period, it must be a tube computer, but I don’t know how it performs.

   I don't know the specific situation, but this does not prevent Fang Lang from bragging.

   "Of course, the Bell Labs I invested in in the United States is engaged in related research work."

   In fact, the first electronic computer in the United States was born at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States in 1946, and it has nothing 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' head without hesitation.

   "You mean, there are other people in the world who are doing related research."

   The reaction of the middle-aged white man was a bit unexpected to Fang Lang, and he couldn't help but start beating the drums in his heart. It can't be that the United States hasn't started researching computers yet!

  Pretending to be too much, but it's a bit embarrassing.

   But the words have already been spoken, Fang Lang certainly can't back down, and it's not easy to answer the other party's question directly, so he can only ask rhetorically:

   "Huh! Haven't you communicated with your peers?"

  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. Therefore, I don’t know that other countries are also engaged in related research.”

   Seriously took a look at the man in front of him, with a scrupulously hunched head, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and the coat on his body looked neat.

  But Fang Lang can also see that the other party's economic conditions are not particularly good.

   After slowly thinking about it, Fang Lang reached out to the other party, and politely introduced himself:

   "Hello! My name is Fang Lang, a Brazilian of Chinese descent. I wonder if I have the honor to invite you for a cup of coffee."

  The middle-aged white man obviously wanted to get some latest news about computers from Fang Lang, so he said without hesitation:

   "Of course, my name is Conrad Zuse. It's a pleasure to meet you. I hope to ask you for some latest news about electronic computers."

   After the two greeted each other politely, they found a roadside coffee shop directly.

  The environment of the coffee shop is very good, and the two found a corner against the wall to sit down.

   Originally, Konrad Chuze wanted to find a seat by the window, but now Fang Lang has a paranoia of being persecuted, and feels that there are always troublemakers who want to harm me.

  So, I hid directly in a hidden corner in the corner.

   "Mr. Chu Ze, I don't know how far your computer research has reached. Have you started applying it?"

  In order to be able to take the initiative in the conversation, Fang Lang took the lead in asking about Conrad Zuze's research progress.

  Because Fang Lang was the first person who was able to communicate with him on computer technology, Conrad Zuze didn't hide anything, and replied directly:

"I started to study computers in 1938, and the latest progress is the Z-4 ​​electromagnetic electronic computer successfully developed in 1945. The memory unit has also been expanded from 64 bits of Z-3 to 1024 bits. .

   As for the application, the Z-3 of the previous generation has been used by us to analyze the data analysis of the aircraft's biplane shake stability, which is very useful. "

  Hearing this answer, Fang Lang felt turbulent in his heart. Isn't this a proper protagonist template?

   You can meet the great **** who is walking around casually. At this moment, Fang Lang's eyes began to shine, or Conrad Chuze at this time is a shining baby in Fang Lang's eyes.

   When the other party talked about data analysis, Fang Lang recalled some memories about computers. He remembered that during World War II, there was a Turing Award for computers in later generations. The name of this award comes from a scientist named Turing.

  The research done by this scientist seems to be about computers, but unlike the direction used by Konrad Zuse, the main application direction of Turing computers seems to be code breaking.

  In this way, it seems that Britain also had computer technology in this period, and Britain must have the United States.

   It seems that his cowhide has not been blown out, but Fang Lang has no way to be sure about the progress of the computer technology research in Britain and the United States.

  However, one thing is certain is that the Mr. Conrad Zuse in front of him is definitely a heavyweight figure in the history of computers.

  I must not let such a character slip away from me. Just now I was thinking about establishing my own experimental university. Why not start with the establishment of a computer research laboratory to establish a research university.

   "Mr. Chu Ze, as far as I know, during the war, a computer developed by a British scientist named Turing was engaged in the deciphering of German codes.

   As for who is faster and who is slower in your research progress, this is beyond my understanding.

  However, I have to say that you must be a genius scientist, because scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States have a certain degree of communication, and you actually started your research in Germany alone, and you were able to succeed 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 a little decadently:

   "Unfortunately, my Z-4 computer has been moved by the British, and now I can only conduct some theoretical research on computer software."

  After listening to the theory of computer software, Fang Lang was even more convinced that the middle-aged man opposite him was definitely a baby, a super baby.

   Isn't this just programming?

   Fang Lang is too clear about the role of programming on future computers.

  At this moment, Fang Lang's thought was to tie the Mr. Conrad Chuze in front of him to Brazil.

  (end of this chapter)