After completing the preliminary preparations for the base, Duke returned to the American campus.

The Department of Materials Engineering approved Duke's application. In order to enhance his persuasion in applying for this doctoral qualification, Duke provided a research process report on the new display composite material, which of course simplified the version that hides key technical parameters.[]

Andrew, a well-known professor of materials science, has carefully studied the process report on the research of new composite display materials provided by Duke, and is very impressed by Duke's talent in materials science research.

Although this project seems to be developed in collaboration with experts in Duke's American Laboratory, Andrew is a person. Although these doctoral students in materials science are all top students from prestigious universities, Andrew, who have achieved some success, knows something and is very familiar with their R&D routines.

The key ideas in the process of developing this material were very imaginative. According to the report, these were all the ideas that everyone had brainstorming together. Although the report did not record who proposed these ideas first, Andrew still sensitively discovered that Duke was present in these key meetings.

In addition, Duke hardly appeared in the R&D meeting. With Andrew's rigorous professional vision, it is natural that this strangeness can be seen. Although there is no evidence to prove that this student had accumulated materials research before, judging from his talent, Duke should be a good seedling, although Duke was a computer doctor before.

Professor Andrew's evaluation of the discovery of this new composite display material is also very high, believing that this will be a technological innovation of the display industry upgrade. In other words, the achievements of this topic are already world-class. Of course, Andrew is very much looking forward to such potential students.

What's more, during the interview, Andrew found that Duke had a very comprehensive and solid theoretical knowledge in basic materials science, and was not inferior to any master's degree in materials science who studied hard.

Of course, it took Duke several days to scan all the basic tutorials of materials science into Kerry's knowledge base. Although he also made efforts in mechanical engineering, the professor of mechanical engineering rejected Duke's application.

This is a very practical science. Duke's application report submitted by him did not show any achievements in engineering practice at all. The professor of mechanical engineering believes that a person with no relevant engineering practice background has no future even if his theoretical knowledge is solid.

Mechanical engineering is one of the key disciplines that MIT has the best. Admission applications have always been very demanding. Even if Duke is the pride of the school's well-known computer department, the professor will not be moved by it.

Duke originally wanted to gain experience in MIT's top power machinery design, but his attempt was temporarily ruined.

Fortunately, he now has the opportunity to appear in the Materials Science Laboratory and the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, which is very fulfilling. Compared with the school's libraries, the new knowledge obtained from various research first-hand reports in the laboratory that can be accessed is obviously more cutting-edge and closer to practice.

Therefore, Duke, who spent a week in the Materials Science Laboratory, has gained a lot of new experience in material research. These things have made Kerry's knowledge base more fulfilled. In the theoretical test of the new display material process design, he was able to communicate with those experts and improve the energy waste part of several new processes.

Although the energy consumption level has only been reduced by a few percentage points, considering that the energy consumption of this project in the future is as high as steelmaking after completion, the electricity bill saved by these few percentage points is a very considerable amount.

In busy days, time passes especially quickly, and March is coming in a flash.

"Duke, congratulations on being elected as the winner of this year's Turing Award! I feel very proud of you!" The slightly excited voice of computer tutor Professor Boer came from the phone, making Duke, who was busy in the laboratory, feel very sudden and touched.

After being stunned for a while, Duke realized, "Thank you!" Duke paused, "This is also your pride! Professor, without you, you would not have had this great honor today. Thank you very much for all your efforts for me."

Duke sincerely thanked. Indeed, although Duke's achievements in computer science are outstanding, especially in breakthrough research in speech recognition, it is indeed world-class. Judging from the significant impact of scientific research results, it is understandable to be elected as the Turing Award. However, this award is mostly a part of European and Americans, especially Americans, and rarely falls outside the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

The Turing Award was indeed unexpected to many people for being awarded this time to a student from China. You should know that in the eyes of most Americans, although China, which has dominated the second most years of GDP, is still a trivial follower in scientific and technological research.

Therefore, the Turing Award selection committee held a fierce debate on this. On the one hand, although Duke lacks sufficient capital, on the other hand, the prejudice formed over the years is difficult to eliminate. If Professor Boer had not tried his best to fight for Duke and took out Duke's achievements in both speech recognition and artificial intelligence at the conference, these judges would have been speechless.

Although other candidates have scientific research results similar to Duke's level, they are basically concentrated in one sub-field. Most people rarely have such strong scientific research capabilities as Duke, which can bear fruit in multiple fields at the same time. In this way, Duke's technical advantages are unshakable. Professor Boer himself is a big shot with an important influence in the selection committee, and no one can do it too partially.

After all, the experts on the selection committee are influential experts and scholars from various well-known universities and research institutions, not politicians.

Although Duke is not very clear about these fierce battles behind the scenes, Duke knows that this year's competition for the Turing Awards was very fierce. In previous years, the results of the Turing Awards were basically decided a few days in advance. However, this year it was almost the day of awards, and Professor Boer notified himself, which shows how fierce the competition was and how difficult the selection committee made the decision.

Apart from Professor Boer, he has no connections in this selection committee. If Professor Boer had not won him for his efforts, Duke believed that he would never have won this heavy award.

For Duke, this was a very unexpected surprise. From today on, he has been upgraded to the ranks of world-class top scientists without any reason.

After the list of winners of the Turing Award was announced, there were a lot of congratulatory messages from all parties. This was the first Turing Award won by authentic Chinese people and one of the few world-class science and technology awards.

The significance is so great that it can shock thousands of waves in China. Duke's hometown, province, city and county governments are quick to respond and immediately sent congratulatory messages. Even the State Council press conference specially mentioned this award that makes Chinese people look good.
Chapter completed!