The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 672: The Disdained Turing Award Silver Bowl

【China's first Turing Award winner】

[The Chinese Turing Award winner who shocked the world]

[He is the Turing Award winner and the chief scientist of Huaxia]

[First to win the Turing Award, China is not inferior to others]

[Scientists should dare to climb Mount Everest]

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The day after the special plane arrived in Beijing, major domestic media reported on it one after another. The front-page news was undoubtedly the news that Liu Tao won the Turing Award.

It can be said that it is no exaggeration to describe it as the focus of everyone's attention.

It was also during this time that the Turing Award entered thousands of Chinese households, and people learned that there was an international highest award in the computer field called the 'Turing Award', which is also known as the 'Nobel Prize in Computer Science'.

For a long time, what Chinese people pay most attention to is the annual Supreme Science and Technology Award, which is the highest level award among China's five national science and technology awards. It is awarded to scientific and technological workers who have made major breakthroughs in the forefront of contemporary science and technology or have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and technology, and created huge economic or social benefits in science and technology innovation, transformation of science and technology achievements and high-tech industries.

The most well-known one is the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" Medal of Merit, which was awarded to 23 scientific and technological experts who made outstanding contributions to the development of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite". Since the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" Medal of Merit was awarded there, no one has received it again. It belongs exclusively to the scientific and technological workers who made outstanding contributions to the development of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite".

Therefore, the Highest Science and Technology Award has become the highest level award with the highest gold content. It is awarded once a year, with a maximum of two people each time. So far, except for Liu Tao and Yang Zhenning, all the winners of the Highest Science and Technology Award are winners of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" Medal of Merit.

It can be said that the highest science and technology award is actually equivalent to a lifetime achievement award. Unless you have made a particularly great contribution, you will have to work hard all your life and wait in line.

In addition, the National Natural Science Award has the highest gold content. The National Natural Science Award is awarded to scientific workers who elucidate natural phenomena, characteristics and laws, and make initial major scientific discoveries in basic research and applied basic research. Among them, the winner of the first prize of the National Natural Science Award will inevitably be selected as an academician, and the winner of the second prize of the National Natural Science Award will become a reserve force of academicians, a national outstanding youth, and a Yangtze River Scholar!
The next is the National Technological Invention Award, which is awarded to scientists who use scientific and technological knowledge to make major technological inventions such as products, processes, materials and their systems. The first prize winners basically get a direct ticket to academician selection, while the second prize winners become academician reserve forces, national outstanding youths, and Yangtze River Scholars.

Next is the National Science and Technology Progress Award, among which the special prize has the highest value.

In addition to awards at the national level, next are awards at the ministry level and national industry association level; then there are awards at the provincial level and provincial industry association level; and finally there are awards at the city level and city industry association level.

This is the current ladder construction of China's awards, from city, province, ministry to country, from low to high.

Before, no one knew about the "Turing Award" because there was no media that would promote the "Turing Award". Everyone knew that the international award was the "Nobel Prize". The reason was that when promoting Yang Zhenning before, they emphasized that he won the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 35, and then everyone knew about the Nobel Prize.

Now, the 'Turing Award' is known to almost all Chinese people.

"Dad, why is it a silver bowl instead of a gold bowl? Americans are so stingy!" Liu Jingming said with disgust.

"Why is it a bowl? Not a gold medal?" Liu Yingqing asked curiously. Normally, people would think of gold medals, silver medals, bronze medals, or certificates or awards.

This was the first time they had seen a bowl. Liu Tao smiled and explained it to them.

There are many theories about why the Turing Award is designed as a silver bowl, but there are two main theories. One theory is that in the Middle Ages, victory was accompanied by a feast, and people drank victory wine, so a bowl-shaped object was used as a symbol of the award, with delicious food placed in it, and people used forks to eat the victory food; another theory is that the American habit of using a "bowl" is because the first trophy was designed based on a bowl-shaped stadium, and the bowl shape has been continued since then.

Of course, some people say that this is specially provided as a place for the winners to eat or to serve fruits, because some Turing Award winners have done so.

As for why it is a silver bowl instead of a gold bowl, it can only be said that the sponsor’s sponsorship fee is limited.

Many people would say that foreign awards are fair, open and transparent. In fact, that is just misleading because many awards are sponsored by companies. As long as there is corporate sponsorship, they will inevitably be affected.

It can be said that all awards at home and abroad have their shortcomings; none of them are perfect.

The children played with the silver bowl for a while before putting it away.

Liu Jingming and Liu Yingqing were sent to the gymnasium to swim. They joined the swimming team last year. In addition to studying, they practiced swimming and prepared to try to become swimming athletes.

Not only these two people, Liu Qing'an and Liu Manhua are also receiving sports training, but one is practicing basketball and the other is practicing tennis.

Liu Tao has no objection to children liking sports. As long as the children like it and have talent in it, he supports it.

After all, doing sports can keep you healthy.

Moreover, an athlete's career is often relatively short, and it is not too late to do other things after their career is over.

Of course, Liu Tao also has requirements for them, that is, they must not fall behind in their studies, they must do both, and do both well.

As for whether they can achieve results in sports, Liu Tao doesn't care much. If they can, they can naturally continue to be professional athletes. If they can't, it means they lack talent.

Being an athlete also requires talent.

If you don't have enough talent, no amount of practice will be of any use.

Just like Gao Min and Fu Mingxia who are now famous, they had outstanding talents and achieved results early. Gao Min won the National Diving Championships and National Games Trials at the age of 1983 in 12, becoming the youngest national champion in Chinese history. In 1986, she won the springboard diving championship at the World Swimming Championships at the age of 16, setting the highest score in the history of the World Championships. Then she won the three-meter springboard gold medal with absolute advantage in the 1988 Olympics, becoming China's first Olympic women's springboard diving gold medalist. In recent years, she has won many gold medals and demonstrated her strong dominance.

Similarly, now only 13 years old, Fu Mingxia has become a rising star in the Chinese sports world, beating her peers and winning gold medal after gold medal.

Liu Tao supports his children in practicing sports and has enough resources to allow his children to pursue this path, but whether they can achieve results depends 70% on talent and 30% on their own efforts.

Even Liu Tao couldn't do anything about this.

(End of this chapter)