Just as the Mathematics Research Institute began its examinations under the supervision of artificial intelligence, another eting was taking place in the administrative building of the university.
The eting was chaired by Zuo, the vice-chancellor in charge of research.
Although the secretary and chancellor did not make an appearance, they both had emphasized the importance of this eting beforehand.
The attendance at the eting included almost all the heads of the key laboratories within the university. If soone was absent, it was likely due to business trips, and their deputies in attendance were all influential figures within their respective units, which attested to the eting's high profile.
Even though it was his first ti leading a eting since taking office, and several academicians were in attendance, Zuo Chengzheng did not show any signs of nervousness.
Unlike other vice-chancellors of the university, Zuo Chengzheng was transferred from a high governnt post. In fact, many of the attendees had t each other in Capital during various etings and could be considered familiar faces.
"Alright, everyone is here, let's start the eting. We all know each other, and I'm here to get things done, so I won't waste ti with unnecessary talk. Everyone has a docunt in front of them. Take a look, and then we can discuss," said Zuo Chengzheng succinctly, then picked up his teacup and began sipping tea.
The others, too, had already picked up the prepared materials and started reading.
Soon, the eting room was filled only with the sounds of sipping tea and turning pages.
Taking advantage of the mont when everyone else focused on the materials, Zuo Chengzheng quietly observed their expressions.
So were pensive and silent, others' brows lifted with joy halfway through their reading, and of course, there were those who were earnestly poring over the content...
After ten minutes, noticing that most people had closed their docunts and begun exchanging opinions, Zuo Chengzheng cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, okay, everyone should be finished now. If you have any comnts, we can discuss them collectively. Let's not play gas—do we want to take on this project? If so, how? If there are any concerns, you can bring them up now for a group discussion."
No sooner had he finished speaking than soone asked, "Vice-Chancellor Zuo, isn't this large-scale undersea unmanned cluster technology a bit too hasty? If we go ahead with this, does that an our current project on large-scale underwater unmanned intelligent vehicles will be scrapped?"
Zuo Chengzheng looked up at the person who had asked the question.
It was Luo Benyuan, one of the leaders of the university's mariti engineering team.
Eight years ago, Huaxia's first 50-kilogram class underwater unmanned intelligent vehicle was designed and successfully developed by Luo's team.
This question was anticipated, and Zuo Chengzheng smiled slightly before explaining, "Professor Luo, you don't have to worry about that. The project plan that everyone has just seen is being considered for inclusion as a separate item in the national 863 Program, alongside the deep-sea subrsible technology and equipnt project.
The sub-projects within the overlapping areas between the deep-sea subrsible technology and this new deep-sea cluster project will not rge, but there will be a sharing of technical information. In other words, the research findings from your team might indeed be used in the deep-sea cluster project, but they might also be rejected, depending on the decision of the lead designer of the project."
His explanation was clear: the funding for the team was for the mont safe.
But there were no fools present; they all understood that if their own underwater unmanned intelligent vehicle was not favored by the designers of the deep-sea cluster project, they would still need to design a new set of underwater unmanned vehicles for the cluster project, which would an the sub-projects would overlap after all.
So, even if this project was not scrapped for the ti being, it would still be in competition with the other project. It was highly likely that one would eventually be cut or repurposed. As for the already researched results, they would be entirely transferred to the other project.
Research funding was finite; more for one side naturally ant less for the other.
Thus, after listening to Zuo Chengzheng's explanation, Luo Zhengyuan was not relieved but instead continued, "I understand, Vice-Chancellor Zuo. Firstly, I candidly admit that, indeed, there is a sense of advocating for our own project. But at the sa ti, I think my concerns are very valid.
I don't know who the chief designer of this undersea cluster system is, but this concept is undoubtedly too advanced. Multimodal information perception is also being worked on by Xilin University of Technology. The national key laboratory for airborne information perception and fusion in the Electronic Information School has similar projects.
However, to my knowledge, there are many problems, such as feature fusion, heterogeneous data alignnt, inconsistent label noise, interpretability, etc., that are urgently needing solutions in airborne multimodal information perception. If we consider underwater conditions, which are even more extre, the issues multiply.
Let's just consider the basics: underwater perception, navigation, and information transmission are all much more complicated than airborne ones. Not to ntion requiring a power system capable of long standby tis or anti-corrosion materials that can withstand prolonged sea water erosion, plus the fact that this is about clustering. So, is listing this project directly under the 863 Program being overly optimistic?"
Having patiently listened to Luo Benyuan's question, Zuo Chengzheng smiled and looked around before saying, "You've all heard Professor Luo's question. Does anyone want to help respond to him?"
No one spoke up, nor did anyone raise their hand.
It wasn't that nobody wanted to engage in a debate with Luo Benyuan.
It was mainly because there was still too little information available at the mont, just a project proposal and the goals that needed to be achieved.
Who would be given the projects, or what qualifications would be needed for the applications, had not been ntioned yet, so naturally, no one wanted to enter into a debate with Luo Benyuan at this point.
Not to ntion, Luo Benyuan's points were not without rit.
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