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Maoyan has been curating "The World's Most Valuable Private Collection – Tyrant Collection" for many years. For Maoyan, in addition to learning numismatic knowledge and accumulating industry experience, this project also made me gradually familiar with the collectors of the Tyrant Collection, and let me know the kind collector's wife, Amy (Zhang Juhua).
The first time I met Amy, I thought she had no shelf at all, and we went from popular TV series to martial arts novels. I was amazed by Amy's understanding of mainland traditional culture, and even more admired her for always following Chinese pop culture despite being in the upper class of the United States.
Amy once opened her own Chinese column "Bright Sky" in the california tribune, an important overseas Chinese media, to share her views on current affairs such as world politics and economy and some travel anecdotes. The column was widely acclaimed and had a profound impact on that generation of Chinese in the United States. During her tenure at the newspaper, she not only witnessed many milestone events in Sino-US people-to-people exchanges, but also entertained many important political figures on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
It is a great honor to be able to publish Amy's new work on its own platform today. In this article, she introduces the Tyrant Collection's collectors to their outstanding career achievements, the family background of their upbringing, and the new direction of life that they are currently working on.
Finally, the text and images in this article are copyrighted by Amy Chu-Hua O'Dowd/Juhua Zhang.
High energy ahead, the main text is coming!
Astronomy on the top, geography, history and economy on the bottom - cultivation and cultivation
At the 90th birthday party hosted by his family for him, the father-in-law unexpectedly proposed that he give a speech. In my nearly 30 years of contact with my in-laws, I have noticed that my father-in-law never talks much, almost to the point of sparing words. However, he is an excellent listener, he is very good at finding topics for others to make high opinions, and from time to time he adds a pertinent insight, so that the person who makes the speech knows that he is listening and understands.
On the 90th birthday of the father-in-law, all the children arrived
The first time I received my father-in-law's public speech was at a wedding banquet in 1986 at the request of my parents (I did not like wedding banquets, I always felt that it was a laborious and troublesome thing, and I directly registered for marriage at the end of 1985).
In April 1986, a wedding banquet was held for my parents
As we were about to walk to the wedding feast, sir asked for one thing: we needed someone who would speak for our wedding and invite everyone to celebrate with champagne. With only ten minutes left before the divorce dinner begins, I don't know who can take on this "big task"? The gentleman said: Now the human candidate — his father. As a result, the father-in-law invited everyone to raise a glass to celebrate the five-minute speech, which was wonderful!
Sir this photo is particularly gentle
Bai Xianyong's "Youth Edition Peony Pavilion" celebration banquet was hosted by me who donated money to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and President Yang invited me to be my co-host with him. And when I, while preaching to my in-laws the "youth version of the Peony Pavilion", was the first time that the Kunqu opera, which was listed by the United Nations as the first intangible cultural heritage of human oral history, was performed in the United States, and when the significance was particularly significant, my father-in-law suddenly proposed: As the first time that a Chinese group went to the United States, the first banquet of the first stop of the Chinese table tennis team to the United States was presided over by him.
I only learned about it that year (2006).
After removing makeup, Yu Jiulin is still a handsome and polite student, which is a group photo with the eldest sister and the male protagonist after going to Taiwan in 2017 to watch the youth version of Peony Pavilion.
Have lunch with Mr. Bai Xianyong at the University of California, Santa Barbara University Campus ClubHouse
Shocked, unexpected, I immediately asked my father-in-law to give a speech to the "youth version of the peony pavilion" celebration banquet, the father-in-law repeatedly resigned, the mother-in-law looked soft, promised to help me convince the father-in-law, should be the matter. After the feast, the president of Westmont Collage in Santa Barbara came up to me and told me that Don's speech was just great as usual!. 。 This president was once the dean of the following college when my father-in-law was the president of the university.
After watching the performance of the youth version of Peony Pavilion in Santa Barbara, the in-laws took a group photo with the "King of the Female Mountain" who had not yet removed her makeup.
When the father-in-law was the executive vice president of the State University of New York system (under which the presidents of 64 universities were subordinate), the office was on the 9th floor of the building.
The father-in-law contributed to Accralan University for 15 years, and a few years after his departure, the building named after his in-laws was built on campus.
When the father-in-law was the president of Accralan University, he had a lot of social activities, and the president of the University in the United States was responsible for the task of fundraising.
Training independent children
Sir once mentioned that when his father/my father-in-law was president of Oakland University, almost all politicians of Michigan, large and small, knew each other. One year, four of them folded up the Christmas cards they had received that year, and the result was as high as the roof!
A person who is very social and social, in fact, does not talk much, so when the father-in-law wants to speak to everyone, we naturally listen with bated breath.
The father-in-law made the main point: he had hoped to train independent children all his life; his interaction with his children was based on this foundation. Only then did I understand that the relationship between the father-in-law and his children has always been as light as water, and this is the role!
I have witnessed my husband's 40 years from the beginning of his business to the present, from the beginning of the fundraising of very little funds (70,000 us dollars in cash plus the provision of venues and computers equivalent to 70,000 yuan), and put on the deposits since he did things, to the bottlenecks in the process, Mr. never opened his mouth to his father, or asked for advice.
On a few occasions, I asked my husband why he didn't ask his father for advice. Sir said: Since he was a child, he encountered problems, asked his father for advice, and never got answers, because of this, he cultivated him to encounter problems, never expect anyone, and also created his amazing ability to solve problems!
The in-laws and their children spend Christmas in the more than 100-room castle, which is also the first welcome banquet for the Chinese table tennis team to the United States.
The cornerstone of America's strength
In 1980, after I met my husband, I saw that he was serious and not calculating, and he was fully committed to his work, rather than a monk banging the bell to watch his salary and calculate time to do things, and some of his friends around him, especially those who graduated from Caltech, were the same, and I suddenly realized that this is the main reason for the strength of the United States! What a dedicated and responsible group of people! They don't spend time talking, and they don't care about playing with political means to steal the fruits of other people's hard work for themselves. This is a bunch of doers!
Mr. four brothers and sisters in the family, although the two younger brothers have no proud achievements, but also seriously live the life of ordinary people, never want to, nor do they want to dip into the benefits of his successful brother, or sister, they are self-sufficient, may not have the extra ability to benefit or take care of others, but at least they and the people around them to greet the food, clothing, shelter and transportation, never create or become a burden on society, never envy others than his rich material conditions, always use their brains to think about how to share other people's property, Or think about how to get rich for nothing – like hyping up stocks.
At that time, Mr. Li insisted: Before giving birth to a child, we should first study how to raise a child. He believes that far-reaching and important matters must take relatively more time to weigh and consider, once the child is born, there is no way to turn back. The big things that follow you all your life, you must definitely study it well and then act.
A college teacher friend from China almost shed tears when he saw this photo: her son had never had such a warm moment with his father.
He was busy because the company was still growing, and when he had time to study, I was afraid that I was past the age of having children, so I had to do my own research. The gentleman's request was that he must study the growth process year after year, and also write a report (for him). Having no scientific training, I obediently asked my husband for advice. In addition to reading the books, he said, it is more important to read first-hand information – to ask the mothers of those who have grown up and succeeded to see how they have laid the foundation for their children. The first mother I thought of was, of course, the mother of my Mr. Success.
Two sons were already in junior high school, and the father was more pro than me. It was also an intimate relationship that my husband and his father did not have –and I preferred it.
Observation and provision
At the beginning of my marriage, a friend often had headaches for his difficult son, and I once asked my mother-in-law what a good idea, and the first thing my mother-in-law asked was: How old is the child? She said that under the age of six she could train well, and the above was not sure.
The mother-in-law said that the principle of her raising children is: observe and provide. Pay attention to the talent or hobby of the young child, and provide him with the opportunity to learn more deeply. I recall my mother-in-law's annual letter of congratulations to friends and family at the end of each year:
Mr. Hobby when he was 12 years old
When he was eight years old, he received a philatelic album; when he was 12 years old, his birthday gift was an astronomical telescope. Due to his talent in mathematics, he participated in a math summer camp sponsored by Accralan University during the summer vacation at the age of 14.
In October 1983, my husband helped me move all the way from the San Jose area of Northern California to Pasadena in Southern California, and after passing through Central California one night, my husband suddenly asked me to park on the side of the road, which turned out to be a dark and open place without lights. The gentleman pointed to the stars in the sky and began to tell me about the Milky Way galaxy. This is the first time I have heard about astronomy as a scholar, and I found it very interesting! Excited too! A few years later, my mother-in-law sent a newspaper clipping from Alaska: Accorland University reopened the Astronomical Observatory, tracing the history of the original creation, which was originally established by Mr. Chen when he was 14 years old and a master's student at a university research institute. Of course I immediately asked sir, what work did he do? From raising funds to obtaining funds, to selecting instruments and installing... This was in 1969.
Sir began to stand on his own
My husband, because of his mother's strict schedule control at home, graduated from high school early before the age of 17 (still 16 years old), quickly left his parents' home, and went to school at Caltech, which ranked first in the world in science and engineering, and began his independent life.
Mr. Sophomore (18 years old) returned to his parents' house in the summer to take a picture with his brothers and sisters - during the Beatles' epidemic, boys all grew long hair, in 1974.
In 2017, Mr. and his youngest son took a photo in front of the same dormitory where the Caltech duo lived.
Superman's Perseverance - Mr. Made Never Crash Computer Operating System (OS)
As early as the Caltech era, he wanted to develop a computer operating system (OS) that would not crash, until 1990, when he had the opportunity to start designing programs with time, and after the success of 1997, Boeing became the first customer to use the B-1B. Boeing's head of engineers at the time admitted that they had been trying to develop this never-turn-off computer operating system (OS) internally for 20 years without success!
B-1B is a hundred million dollars of aircraft, if the computer crashes, the taxpayer pays hundreds of millions of dollars can be adrift, which has not been taken into account the loss of possible disaster, which has always been their hidden worry, so as soon as they heard that GHS has made an OS that will not crash, immediately flew to our small town, the company headquarters where Santa Barbara to verify, and offered on the spot, willing to do free testing by external agencies, seven months later, they became the first customer of GHS never crash OS.
The large aircraft made after 1997 are almost all named after GHS computer operating system with the INTEGRITY (GHS computer operating system name) of My Husband's company (Green Hills Software), including: F-35, F-22, F-16, B-1B, B2Bomber, Boeing787, AirBusA380... There are some other precision instruments. Nearly 25 years after 1997, no other company has ever failed and unhackable-EAL6+—a computer operating system of the same level.
In 2020, he received Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award for this achievement. Old friend He Hongyi mentioned in the congratulatory sms: This honor is the proudest of all the awards won by his brother He Dayi!
Pioneer of the world's first and most successful handheld video game software, embedded systems
A must-have gift for Christmas 1977 — Mattel Electronic Football, the world's first and most successful handheld video game software and pioneer of the Embedded System ( Chinese translates to " embedded systems — was my husband's first work after graduating from Caltech at the age of 20. He wrote "Mattel Electronic Baseball", "Mattel Electronic Basketball" software that year.
Video games made in 1977 are still available on Amazon today.
I learned five years ago that this Mattel Electronic Football turned out to be a must-have gift for American children at Christmas 1977, and in 1984 Mr. Li happily showed me this old toy in his hand, and I, who knew almost nothing about video games, thought absently: This outdated video game, now many video games are much more fun... Unexpectedly, in recent years, I have encountered some American men around 50 years old, as long as they mention this toy, they almost have to jump up, saying that they are their childhood favorites, and they still have it, including the current head of the computer department at the California Institute of Technology. To this day, Amazon is still selling on the Internet!
I asked Mr. Carefully, and I realized that it was so popular (I adore Mr. More!). ）！ What's more: the first most successful manual video game can also be regarded as the pioneer of embedded system software. I asked sir is that the world's first hand-controlled video game? Sir said: It's the second one. However, it was the first and most successful, because the first (the program written by one of his seniors) did not succeed.
Worked with college friends to design the most advanced microprocessor chips
In 1978, he was invited by his college classmate Les Kohn, who had been known as the "Microprocessor Guru" in 1990, and the two of them jointly designed the NS32000 (NS32000 microprocessor chips - 3 pieces), the most advanced microprocessor chip at the time, the first to have a virtual memory, floating point, and 32-bit A computer microprocessor chip was used in the camera of the Mars Global Surveyor 1996.
In 1978, the NS32000 computer microprocessor chip, which was designed as the size of a thumb, was selected in the Mars Global Surveyor's 1996 camera.
Les Kohn did an oral history of him at the Computer History Museum at the beginning of this year (2022) (see "Oral History of Les Kohn, Computer History Museum") mentioned My Husband three times: he was the co-designer of the first microprocessor chip he designed, and the only person he ever co-designed the chip.
In April 2019, microprocessor chip leader Les Kohn took a photo with old friends/sir and sons at our Santa Barbara home.
Digression: Quantum Mechanics
Four years ago (2018), one day mr. was at breakfast, pointing to a notepad on the table (which could be torn off one by one), asking if it was mine, and I glanced at the kitchen from a distance and said, "It's mine." The gentleman asked again, "Is it yours?" ”。
Wondering why he didn't believe it, I looked closer, and he was referring to the top page, and I said, this page is the note of my younger son at Caltech, and I looked at this notepad with a lot of blank pages that were useless, so I tore off the first few pages, leaving only the first page of these blank pages. What's so strange about me reading this page by the way? When I looked at it, I found that I didn't understand it at all, there were numbers but it wasn't like advanced mathematics, so I asked mr. Sir, what is this higher mathematics that I don't understand? The gentleman replied, "This is Quantum mechanics, which is not strictly mathematical, but should be more physical." I asked, "Such a complex and esoteric thing, usually not used, what to learn it for?" "I used this quantum mechanics when I designed the NS32000 microprocessor chips.
My younger son's notes on quantum mechanics at Caltech were torn to this page by me (he didn't know yet – bad mother!). ）
The world's first system software
My husband, Dan O'Dowd, has been focusing on the software tools that must be used in the development of software, Green Hills Software is the first company that only computer systems engineers have the ability and qualifications to enter the work, is a company that specializes in developing and then providing computer programmers with the software tools needed to develop programs, specializing in such products, there are only a few companies in the world (within five fingers), and no company can make a difference to Green Hills Software is superior to this type of product.
What company has the founder of my husband? Just by virtue of the fact that he designed the most advanced computer microprocessor chip in 1978, the computer software industry could not find a second person! What's more, he is also one of the pioneers of embedded system software that is full of advanced countries in the world today.
Green Hills Software's debugger is now mature enough to quickly identify any computer bugs.
More than four years ago, a customer came to the door for help: four software engineers in their company spent three months unable to find out the computer program error (bug), and as a result, my husband's customer support manager used the company's debugger - MULTI to help them find the computer error that drove them crazy. They were overjoyed and amazed!
In fact, five years ago, my husband excitedly told me that their Time Machine (initially made in 2004) in MULTI can quickly trace the program that caused software errors (trace back to the code which causes the bug), and is mature enough to find any computer bugs! I remember, I almost shed tears – moved! Too clever and awesome!
Dan O'Dowd began warning of a potential crisis of software insecurity eighteen years ago
Four years ago (2017), my husband went to CalTech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Cornell, Rose-Hulman Institue of Technology to speak to computer science students about the computer software security crisis, Includes cybersecurity)-related topics.
Mr. at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) explains the definition of EALS
I hope that one day they will have a bottom line in the industry, if the products they make are easy to be hacked, or the program errors (bugs) will cause human life and injury, they must refuse the boss to rush to promote the market in order to seize the market, so as not to cause human disasters.
Mr. Caltech gave a presentation on 'Computer Software Security', 2017
One thing that only I know (and may be my guess): After the launch of "Live Free or Die Hard" in 2007, the disaster caused by the intrusion of all the software in the film by the villains coincided with seven speeches written by my husband more than two years ago (2004), (except for the final F-35 hack). These seven speeches were published at the company-sponsored exchange meeting, inviting companies and media in the industry, and when I watched the movie, I thought, 80% of my good deeds! It's just because more than two years ago, I copied a copy of these seven speeches about computer software security (including cybersecurity) and sent it to Dennis Miller, a famous talk show artist I knew at the time.
Meet Sir
After I earned my master's degree in computer science in 1980, my first job was the Mesa Project at National Semiconductor. It was a team of more than three hundred people who were going to do personal computers with the microprocessor chips the company was making, NS32000 microprocessors, and Les Kohn, who designed the NS32000 microprocessor chips, and my current husband, Dan O'Dowd, were already legends in our group at the time.
What is Les Kohn concentrating on? Les's hobbies are photography and music, and the chips he designs are definitely the best choice for use in images and music.
I was in charge of developing the compiler of the software language and the computer operating system (OS), and I was hired by The Testing, and my immediate supervisor, a male student who graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of NTU and had a master's degree in computer science at Berkeley, often reminded me that Dan O'Dowd was a very intelligent person, and I had better talk to him less so as not to leak the bottom (I was too bad). In fact, I was very bad at English, and it was quite hard to talk to foreigners. I often told my friends later that my degree in computer software, compared to my husband's, I was climbing on the ground, and he was flying in the sky - the difference was very different!
Don't look at me as I have a master's degree in computers, and he's a bachelor's degree. It was also then that I realized that the level of degree is not the measurer of ability, and which university graduate is the beginning.
I do the work of testing assembler, and whenever I have a problem with the test, I report it to bernnie Bove, the engineer in charge of the assembler, who immediately gets up and says, "Let's go find the DDO ." Then I had the opportunity to go to the studio of the legendary DDO in the group at the time— "Silly" of course, and listen to the two men discuss the "Book of Heaven".
When I joined the Mesa group in 1980, windows were already available internally (a program designed and written by another Caltech classmate, Dave Neff), four years before Apple's windows! Unfortunately, there are many factional struggles in large companies, and the Mesa Project has left because the protector, the vice president of the company, and the president of the factory manufacturing background, Mr. and Les Kohn have lost the discerning upper protector, and a group of manufacturing executives have competed for this "fat meat" ("Mesa Project") and decided to leave (1982).
In 1984, I organized (in my name) a reunion with some of my colleagues from the 'Mesa Group' (software department, except Les Kohn) at a Bay Area Chinese restaurant. The girl on the left-hand side of the gentleman came up to me and said, "Why would you associate with him?" I've been with his colleagues for three years and never dared to talk to him! To her left was Les Kohn, who later became a chip leader. Les's left pair was his and his husband's Caltech classmate, and the Window, which we used internally at the time (1982), was made by Mr. Dave Neff.
Les Kohn decided to focus on the development of computer microprocessor chips, so he joined Intel, the company that made the strongest chips that year. The development of the "National Semiconductor" personal computer, without two soul figures, of course, can not continue, so there is no disease!
1986 Mr. and Les Kohn - today's microprocessor chip leaders.
Unfortunately, when the personal computer was close to completion, we used the E-PASCAL designed by my husband internally, which is the simplest, clearest and most easy computer programming language I have ever used!
The hero behind the Macintosh
In 1984, He met with Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer, and signed a contract to help Macintosh, which uses Motorola's 68,000 microprocessor chip, make a C compiler. A year later, Green Hills Software successfully completed the C compiler that could be used on Motorola's 68,000 microprocessor chip (Motorola 68,000) and saved the Macintosh.
By then, Steve Jobs had been kicked out of Apple for the failure of the Macintosh market. John Scully, who had cast Jobs on apple's presidency, a person who had no computer technology expertise and had been trying to cancel the Macintosh because of the unsuccessful Macintosh market, had picked up a bargain and became a contributor to the Macintosh's popular market.
If Jobs hadn't realized in time that he should have chosen the programming language C used by many applications, rather than the less-used language PASCAL so that Macintosh wouldn't sell; if it hadn't been for a programming engineer under Jobs (who had worked on the Computer Language Compilers Group chaired by Mr. National Semiconductor) to propose to Jobs that he knew someone who had already made a C compiler that could be used on Motorola's 68,000 microprocessor chips, Jobs immediately asked Green Hills Software (only Mr. and another programming partner at the time) helped Macintosh make a C compiler (no one at the time made a C compiler that could be used on Motorola's 68,000 microprocessor chips, and if Apple wanted to develop on its own, it would take at least two years or more, not necessarily to do it).
As a result, in less than a year, Green Hills Software successfully made a C compiler that could be put into the Macintosh, and The sales of the Macintosh began to soar, and the new president of Apple Computer, who almost wanted to cancel the Macintosh, became a genius market operator who brought the Macintosh back to life!
This former president of Pepsi, who is not a technical background, probably still does not know the main reason why Macintosh came back to life. If Green Hills Software did not install the C compiler on the Macintosh in time, and the Macintosh was canceled by John Scully, there would be no later Jobs returning to "Apple Computer" and today's dominant "Apple Computer", Jobs's timely decision to correct the error, coupled with the advanced technology that Green Hills Software already has, is the great hero of Macintosh's bloody resurrection!
Digression
Jobs learned from this struggle (Scully, who was recruited into "Apple" by himself as president, joined hands with the board of directors to kick him out of the door of "Apple"), and was later asked to return by the directors of "Apple" when "Apple" was weak, and one of his conditions was absolute power. His first personnel decision after returning to Apple was to fire all board members!
The person who called Jobs to return to Apple was the head of the legal department of "Apple", and later accepted the invitation of Mr. Steve, and has been on the board of GHS.
Sir's vision – to manufacture products that will be needed in ten years' time
1, the world's first company specializing in microprocessor (embedded system) language compiler
In the second year of Green Hills Software' existence, he once said that many people made fun of him, and personal computers would soon replace mainframe computers, not using a structure-rigorous language compiler like a large computer.
Sir said that they are wrong, the future of the personal computer will be as powerful as the mainframe computer , you need the structure of the mainframe language compiler, wait until they realize and then develop, at least two years behind GHS!
Some interludes
In 1987, Intel (Intel) two microprocessor design groups, have sent together with their respective design of the microprocessor chip instructions, one group of sufficient funds, willing / can pay the other group of three times the price, Mr. after reading the two chip instructions, pushed off the well-funded group, said a sentence: "They can not make it!" - the design is not good, can not stand. Then he laughed and said, "Les Kohn (the less funded group) is not as good as the other group that can play politics, so good design, even can not get the same funding as the other group!" ”。 Of course, Sir did not hesitate to take the low-cost microprocessor chip (I 860) designed for Les to make a C language compilation. Two years later, Les Kohn learned enough of the bureaucracy of the big company, Intel stayed bitterly, and finally Les joined the "Sun Microsystems", and later they led the computer system for more than ten years, that is, The SuperSPARC designed by Les after joining, of course, the language compiler was also designed by Green Hills Software.
Digression
As long as it is something that their own people can do, the Japanese people who never ask for anything from outside, unexpectedly found GHS at the end of 1983 and became the first customer of GHS. Subsequently, Japanese companies that made microprocessor chips, including NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba... It's all about asking GHS to help them design the language compiler for their new microprocessor chips. Japanese are OK! Not confused by famous brands, not trending by big names. However, it seems that only GHS will do microprocessor Software Development Tool for microprocessor chips at that time, and the Japanese can find it at the beginning of the company's establishment.
2, GHS's second main heart bone product - Online Debugger "MULTI" (online search program error meter - my translation)
In 1992, I heard Mr. Say that everyone thought that he did MULTI has many unusable functions, he said at the time: computer hardware has been very advanced, unfortunately many advanced features, the industry has not found the use, his product is to make full use of the advantages of combining those hardware.
As a result, he developed MULTI, the efficiency of searching for program errors is the same as Mr. Li's analogy: MULTI is an electric drill, others are manual drills, using other tools for two weeks to find program errors, using "MULTI" only five hours.
However, it seems that the managers of many large companies are mostly bureaucratic means, using cheap tools or free tools, and the funds seem to save money for the company, and they do not care about long-term economic efficiency.
15 years ago, when GHS's MULTI developed a "time tunnel", that is, to be able to touch the melon and find the program that created the problem, when it coincided with the European Computer Exhibition, Mr. decided to announce the new creation of GHS in the exhibition, Mr. thought it must cause a sensation, the result, the reaction was: do not believe that this is possible! The reason is: never heard of. So, the high places are indeed cold! The one with the unique vision is doomed to be lonely, and the chicken and the duck are really helpless!
After more than a decade of polishing, MULTI is now fully mature – able to quickly identify any software programs that make mistakes. In 2017, the company's customer service engineers used MULTI's "time tunnel" to help find customers who came to the door for help within 6 hours, and found a bug (program error) that took 4 software engineers 3 months to find crazy! The engineers were stunned, shocked and thankful – amazing!
Recall that the main products created by Mr. Are all more than ten years ahead of the times.
- Software written in 1977 ("Mattel Electronic Football") is the forerunner of embedded systems that now fill every corner of life;
- The microprocessor chip NS32000, designed in 1978, was selected by JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) 18 years later to be selected by the "Mars Global Prospector", and the design of the NS32000 is a milestone in the design of the microprocessor, the first to include 3 elements at the same time: 32-bit, virtual memory, floating point;
- In 1982, it began to create a language compilation for the use of microprocessor chips, and has always been a unique player, and to this day, the number of wins in the accuracy and efficiency of compilation is higher than the number of wins of all rival companies combined;
- MULTI has created the "time tunnel" for 18 years, and now it is good enough to find any bugs, and it is impossible for any one of them to do this specification;
- INTEGRITY (GHS computer operating system) is the world's first improper, hacker-insurmountable computer operating system, made in 1997, 25 years later, there is still no other company to make a computer operating system that has reached this level.
Mr. Leisure and Entertainment: A Collection of Research Innovation and Intellectualism – will write several related essays
Mr. Loaned his collection, T-Rex Samson, the third most complete in the world (the most complete skull in the world), and Caltech, who served as a school member, was pleased to attend a special pre-event in August 2012. Fossils from 66 million years ago are the little boy's favorite! It can make them curious and interested in natural history: biology, chemistry, geology, and the history of the development of the earth... ⻓The 39-foot, 3-story Samson was named after experts determined it was a female. It should be named "Sam". However, as another layer of "Samson", the meaning of "Hercules" is still passable.
90% of the ancient coins in the frame are collections lent by Mr. Getty and are currently on display at Getty Villa.
On 4/3/2022, I was invited to the "Persia - Ancient Iran and the Classical World" pre-exhibition banquet hosted by Villa Getty. "Getty" as an art history museum, the way of exhibiting naturally pays more attention to visual effects. Honestly, after reading it, it seems that I haven't learned much. It is far less meaningful to see the coins exhibited in his own collection – to learn more about history and economy.
He began to study the economy at the age of 15, and finally realized the answer 20 years later, after Milton Friedman, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote this 395" book "The Value of Money" (not yet published) after making a theoretical appraisal in 1994. After reading mr. Wang's book, I suddenly understood the word "economy" in China: "Economic economy"! ”
The Luo Imperial Coin, which he spent 15 years of leisure time in, is the most moving of all the coins in his complete (his definition): it is simply an expert in the history of Luo!
He is judging one of his collections in the Collection of American Numismatics (one of the two founders of the American Numismatic Identification Standard).
Sir, I, and my sons went to see one of mr. long beach,CA's coin collections at the long beach (CA) coin show (2018), which he chose at the bar (not the largest numismatic show in the United States) because he was closer to home and he could go to see it. So far (4/2022), the entire collection of coins has been exhibited, about one-third of mr. collection coins.
Who is it to give me (sir)?
When the eldest son was in the sixth grade and the younger son was in the fourth grade, Mr. Li once asked the whole family a question: If you had a choice in life, would you choose to be rich and famous, rich and nameless, or famous and rich? All four of our family chose to be rich and nameless. We are all very clear that people are afraid of being famous pigs and afraid of fat, and we have lived for many years freely without asking for people, and we do not have to worry about safety, until now.
In fact, Mr. originally wanted to find influential celebrities and warn the presidents of companies that were making products that failed or were hacked to cause catastrophes, but because of the epidemic delay of two years, now those unsafe products have gradually flooded everywhere, the situation is critical, and he has to go out on his own... He could have retired to live a free life, and when I asked him this question, his answer was: No matter how insecure software fills everywhere in life, our children will die!
Ask:
The traffic system is damaged, the Los Angeles supermarket can not buy goods for 3 days, riots will break out, 5 days can not be supplied, many people will starve to death!
Websites that are easy to be frightened are now all used on mobile phones, many household companies have advertised that your mobile phone is your switch controller, terrorists or our enemies, just hack into the central system, you can open the gas in each person's home, once the gas fills the house, and then turn on the ignition switch, blow up a large piece of house, no need for weapons;
There are also medical instruments – to murder people en masse, finger-to-eye becomes possible;
Water and electricity supply - Not long ago, the computer system of a small town in the south of the United States was hacked, and automatically added water purifiers to the water, and the water in the whole town was not drinkable, and finally it was attributed to the Soviet Union...
The more you know, the more frightened you become!
The automotive industry, under the vision of "Brave New World" woven by tesla president's lips, and under the call of becoming the world's richest man, is scrambling to manufacture unmanned autonomous vehicles, completely ignoring the aircraft manufacturing industry to take safety as the first consideration element! Once the steering wheel disappears from the car, we don't even have the right to correct the mistakes of the car, and they use an open computer central processing system - anyone can write programs into it (including terrorists, we may become enemies tomorrow), in the past terrorists did not hesitate to use themselves as human bombers, and now many automobile industries are stepping up to plant gunpowder for us all over the streets, Mr. 46 years dedicated to the development of security software, heard and seen this rash trend, how not to be anxious?!
I am actually more inclined to the style of the general old: partial security, self-preservation, self-enjoyment... However, if these disasters happen unfortunately, it seems that everyone cannot escape! You are closed behind closed doors, and the rioters will not come to rob you?
Since he has been working tirelessly for decades on the rescue (software security issues) method, and has not hesitated to think that it is a first-class event that must be contributed to the free world, I will cooperate with him and write something about him, on the one hand, to let people know his ability, on the other hand, better than to be distorted by others in the future.
Amy O'Dowd Zhang Juhua
4/26/2022 写于 Santa Barbara, CA