At Bell Labs, apart from the technologies, patents, and equipment, the most valuable thing is the R&D personnel like Bastien Clay.

Clay and others are all members of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Association or other academic associations, and many of them hold high positions. For example, Clay is a director of the Message Processing Association under the IEEE Association, and almost controls this industry.

standard.

More than 1,300 industry standards are formulated by the IEEE Association, including computers, mobile phones, telecommunications, physics and other industries. Whoever controls the IEEE Association has the right to speak in the industry!

Naturally, Song Yang would not miss this opportunity, "Dr. Clay, I am willing to fully support your experiment. In addition, I think you should contribute more to the development of the industry, not only in the signal processing industry, but also in the speech processing industry."

In terms of coding, multimedia signal processing, etc., Dr. Clay should also formulate industry standards for the IEEE Association!"

Hearing that Song Yang had contracted the funds for his experiment, Bastien Clay was excited but also a little uneasy. He didn't know that he had actually helped Song Yang obtain speech and video signal processing and speech coding from the IEEE Association.

, what impact will the standards of multiple IEEE associations such as multimedia signal processing have.

But the check for R&D funds of three million US dollars that Song Yang signed for him on the spot was just a "deposit" to improve the living conditions of everyone in Clay Labs. More R&D funds would be invested in the future.

, this makes it really hard for Clay to refuse. It’s not that Clay has no temper, but he gave too much...

Song Yang needs the technologies developed by Bastien Clay, as well as the technical standards of the IEEE Association. Once these technical standards are mainly based on the technical standards of American Telecom and ICQ, then mobile phone video calls will

icq's Internet voice, video, etc. will become industry standards, and other companies will have to pay icq!

Seeing Song Yang "bribing" Bastian Clay, Stanzern's lips twitched, but in the end he left Clay's laboratory without saying a word. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would suffer from heart disease.

They are all guilty. Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent Group at most want to hollow out Bell Labs. Song Yang is planning to tie Bell Labs and the IEEE Association to the chariot!

Although he didn't look good, Stanzer saw Song Yang's attitude and knew that he was really ready to cooperate with Bell Labs. He pinched his nose and recognized Song Yang's little moves.

"This is one of the theoretical research laboratories in physics. Thirteen years ago, the fractional quantum Hall effect was discovered here. This year, this discovery was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Sooner or later, the Nobel Prize in Physics will belong to this one.

Discover!"

Stanzern took Song Yang to visit other Bell laboratories, some of which were developing new materials and some of which were developing the latest technologies. There were many high-ranking people among them. This is the case with this physics theory laboratory, which often wins Nobel Prizes and the like.

, but it also revealed the decline of Bell Labs. Ten years later, it still relied on the previous things to support its appearance.

But Bell Labs still has some black technology. "This is a biotechnology laboratory. They have developed a convolutional neural network, a deep feed-forward artificial neural network, which may be used to analyze visual images in the future!"

While talking, Stanzern glanced at Song Yang's face from time to time. A group of people in this biotechnology laboratory also looked at Song Yang eagerly. They all knew that a big financier came to Bell Labs today.

Song Yang didn't expect that Bell Labs would be so advanced that it would actually come up with something like a convolutional neural network, but it was too far ahead of its time.

Looking at the group of people in the biology laboratory, looking forward to Song Yang's investment, he knew the current market price of this thing. Now it is basically useless. In another twenty years, I am afraid it will show its talents.

At this time, portrait recognition, gesture recognition, AI intelligence, artificial intelligence, AR glasses, interactive neural network equipment, that is, the legendary game sleep cabin and the like, all require the support of convolutional neural networks.

Song Yang also knew why Stanzern brought him to these laboratories. Song Yang rubbed his chin and said, "I can invest in this project, but the convolutional neural network patents, as well as the patents and technologies generated by subsequent research and development,

All products need to belong to me..."

"no problem!"

The inventor of the convolutional neural network, a French-born man with a Chinese name, Yang Likun, who was just thirty-four years old this year, said as soon as Song Yang finished speaking, "I have no problem here, but Song, you have to

Invest in this project!”

Yang Likun and the development team were very popular when they first launched the convolutional neural network, but they were quickly left out because they really didn’t know what this thing was used for.

Not only Yang Likun, the neural network industry to which convolutional neural networks belong is no longer the darling of the technology industry. The trends are changing too fast, this thing is too amazing, and there is no idea of ​​its use. The entire neural network industry

, after a few years of success, it was abandoned by its funders because it failed to produce results in research and development.

Song Yang looked at Yang Likun and seemed to think he looked familiar, but he didn't think too much about the Turing Award winner or anything like that. He didn't think about it at all. There were really too many talented people in Bell Labs, and there were no Nobel Prize winners in physics.

People, do you still have to queue up here? Yang Likun, this is really nothing.

Song Yang and Stanzern had a few whispers and asked the Americas Global Investment Fund to take over Yang Likun's R&D team, including the convolutional neural network patent. Stanzeren took millions of dollars from Song Yang "

After paying the transfer fee, we let it go.

If Song Yang didn't take over Yang Likun's team, Bell Labs wouldn't be able to support it. As for the convolutional neural network patents, Bell Labs has more than 30,000 patents. It's not short of those few patents. Besides, what's the use of this thing?

Bell Labs didn't even understand it.

Stanzern also needs to give Song Yang some "sweeteners", otherwise why would Song Yang spend money on Bell Labs?

In addition to Yang Likun's convolutional neural network laboratory, Song Yang also saw new magneto-optical storage technology that can accommodate 45 billion digits per square foot, new optical fiber materials that can be applied to intercontinental networks, non-zero dispersion optical fibers and other products, see

Song Yang was all greedy for it. If Stanzern hadn't refused to sell it to death, Song Yang would have wanted to give it all to him!

"Song, this is not a matter of money. Telephone and Telegraph Group, Lucent and other Bell Communications companies cannot let Bell Labs sell these things unless you buy Bell Labs!"

Stanzern patted Song Yang on the shoulder and said, This is to tell Song Yang to make money quickly and redeem Bell Labs. These good things will belong to Song Yang.

Looking at Stanzern who was greedy but refused to sell him, Song Yang didn't know that it was Stanzern who did this deliberately, just to let Song Yang see the good things from Bell Labs, and then let Song

Yang was thinking about raising money as soon as possible to buy Bell Labs.

The scale of the entire Bell Labs is really too big. Even though it has been split up, there are still hundreds of R&D projects in operation. Song Yang finally knows why Bell Labs is burning so much money.

After visiting several more laboratories, Song Yang stopped in front of a laboratory. Seeing this, Stanzern said to Song Yang, "This is the TV R&D department!"

Televisions have been developed for nearly a hundred years, but various technologies are still innovating. As the first Bell Labs in the world to develop color televisions, they have been developing in this regard, but in Bell Labs

It's just not mainstream.

Song Yang walked into this laboratory and saw many people busy. Stanzern also came in and saw that Song Yang seemed to be very interested in this place. "Here at Bell Labs, a new generation of TVs is being developed. The R&D staff

, I want to convert all analog signals into digital signals, hoping to define a new generation of TV technology standards!"

Stanzern said to Song Yang that television is an absolutely traditional industry. Stanzern did not think Song Yang would be interested in this industry. No one within Bell Labs had much interest in this project.

But to Stanzern's surprise, Song Yang actually stayed in the TV R&D department for a long time, and even talked with the head of the laboratory for a long time, and then said to Stanzern and the head of R&D of the TV laboratory.

, “America Telecom is willing to invest in this project!”

Hearing this, Stanzern couldn't help but look at Song Yang in surprise. The person in charge of the TV project was full of joy. He didn't expect that anyone would be willing to invest in this "sunset" industry, let alone Bell Labs.

Other R&D institutions in America are not very interested in the television industry.

Seeing Stanzern's surprised look, Song Yang smiled at Stanzern, "Maybe there will be some rewards!"

TV sets don't make much money, and Song Yang doesn't plan to make much money from it, but if he grasps the patents and standards for digital TV and high-definition TV, he can do a lot of things.

If America Telecom enters the media industry in the future and has the support of the TV brand industry, and all major TV brands will carry or "recommend" America Telecom's TV channels to users, then America Telecom will have a much smoother time in the media industry.

The other thing is the panel industry. You don’t make any money selling TVs. There is still some hope of supporting a panel company by relying on the TV industry!

After a trip to Bell Labs, Song Yang and Stanzern returned to the office. Song Yang calculated that in just this trip, he had thrown out more than 20 million U.S. dollars, which was not even enough.

Counting subsequent investments, one can imagine how expensive research and development will be.

Song Yang also has a good idea of ​​the strength of Bell Labs. Compared with before, it has indeed declined a lot, but the strength is still there. There are still a lot of good things in the warehouse. Relying on the research and development of Bell Labs,
Chapter completed!