The Goddess Shines on America

Since both parties were clear about the purpose of the meeting, the Bosacks immediately led Alice's family to their office after a short exchange of greetings.

On the way, Bosack also explained their own situation. After all, this was the first time they met James.

"My husband and I belonged to different departments of the computer department. When we contacted each other, we found that without a device like a router, it would be too troublesome to communicate between computers on different networks by email. So we started researching a long time ago. I just didn't expect this project to be one step ahead of Alice!"

No matter how high-spirited Sandy was, James listened indifferently. Alice looked at her family members. It was very good. No one seemed particularly happy or unworthy of praise, which gave her a lot of face.

It's just that Hannah is a bit special, always looking at the formal clothes of the couple. When everyone passed a corner, she tugged at Alice's clothes and said, "It's not like going to a restaurant for dinner, what are they doing in such good clothes?"

Alice also had this question in her heart. After all, everyone knows the life style of a Silicon Valley worker. It is so awkward to see a person like Bosack wearing a BOSS suit and Santee wearing this year's new Chanel suit.

"Sorry, the work area is always so chaotic, just pay attention to your feet, and it doesn't matter what is on the table."

Soon, the Bosacks led everyone into the teaching building and into a small office.

There are electronic components everywhere, or paper documents piled up to the ceiling, but as soon as Alice stepped into the room, she found a young man sitting in the corner without looking up, reading something seriously.

"Let me introduce you."

Here, it's Bosack himself, not Santee, at home: "Bill? Hey, Bill!"

Seeing the young man raised his head blankly, Posak said, "This is my colleague from the same team, Bill Iger, who has a lot of research on information technology. Bill, this is..."

"Are you Alice King?"

Alice once again keenly discovered that this man was just like Chen Jingrun, who seemed to be distracted all the time, and his speech was even more light: "The one who invented the cheap and small instrument that can connect to different standard networks one step earlier than us A genius girl?"

Alice: "..."

Oscar read Yige's sentence lightly, and muttered, "It's such a long sentence, why didn't he fill in a few more attributives?"

Because most science geeks are like this, just look at the future American drama "Scorpio Network".

Smiling secretly in her heart, Alice greeted Ige in a decent manner.

Although I don't know what kind of ghost this man is, he really fits the image of a technical geek in Alice's mind: thick-rimmed glasses, hair that hasn't been washed in a week, a face full of stubble, and a sour smell. The clothes and so on are much more qualified than the Bosacks at this time.

"Oscar, Hannah, you two just sit there, be obedient and don't touch anything."

Sophie quickly arranged for the two children. Although she was not an expert, of course she and James had to be present when facing this kind of thing. Meanwhile, the Bosacks and Iggy got busy, preparing for Alice's router function test.

"The casing of the instrument is very good, the texture is very good, the matte texture..."

While busy preparing for the scene, Ige kept talking to himself, speaking lightly in a distracted tone, and looked at and stroked the dark casing of the router from time to time: "Are you looking for a small factory to make the product? Miss Wang?"

"You can just call me Alice, that... Leon?"

Without answering Yige's question, Alice whispered to Bosac: "Is this Yige really capable? Are you planning to let him join our small group?"

"Of course, Iger can almost be said to be a pioneer in the field of computer information communication. Although you have developed routers before us, he..."

Bosac's volume was not low at all, and while plugging the computer network cable into the router, he said loudly: "Ig, show Alice your work first, I think her eyes will stare like bullfrogs of!"

"Oh well."

With the same tone as if he was not in this world, Yige spoke lightly, and took out another rough metal box from some corner.

"Alice, this is my Jerry. It was originally designed to be the same as your router, but it's still a half-finished product..."

Seeing Ige actually took out such an instrument, Alice didn't have the energy to think about other things, so she rushed to him in one step, and held the box over.

How does this semi-finished product look like! ?

Of course, Alice is 100% reassured about her product. Although limited by the times, many functions are still unusable, but in terms of programming skills, it is definitely at the windows-95 level!

But it's still a competitor's thing!

"Not practical yet, I'm still programming it."

Iger's words made Alice's heart suddenly drop back, and he immediately asked: "By the way, you named your instrument Router (Router). Is this a nickname or the name of the product?"

"Of course it's the name of the product. Hey, the nickname is..."

"Oh, Alice, you know, I have a lot of colleagues who like to give their own products..."

"Ahem, Bill, why don't you listen to Alice first, she has already made the finished product."

"Oh well……"

It's still that ethereal tone, as if it's been dreaming...

Oscar and Hannah have been sitting in the corner, but they don't feel bored at all. After all, this is an office of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Whether it is the meaning of the term itself or the piles of heavy documents around it, it is enough to arouse the interest of the two of them.

Of course, James and Sophie didn't understand the technical level, but seeing Alice, Bosack and others gathered in front of a bunch of computers, they had to straighten their necks to observe the situation.

"Let me briefly introduce my design ideas first. The principle is like this, Yige."

The computer was connected, but Alice didn't rush to operate it, but started to draw on a piece of paper first.

"First of all, the word route itself means a route or a road. The basic function of a router is to transmit information from the source to the destination through the network. This point... Hey, Oscar, Hannah, don't patronize Just for fun, Teacher Alice is giving you free lessons!"

"Good sister!"

"Cut, annoying!"

"The routing process includes two basic actions, namely, determining the best path and transmitting information through the network. In this process, the latter is also called data exchange. The exchange is relatively simple, but the path selection is very complicated. Right, Eagle?"

Yige nodded and said, "That's right, this is the difficulty I'm currently overcoming."

"As for the routing algorithm, I just use the decimal method to determine the measurement standard of the best path to the destination, such as the path length. Here, we also need to use a program called routing table, I don't know Have you gotten to this point, anyway, I have already written a copy, I can show you later, it is stored in a router or networked computer, with a path to a specific network address."

"So, of course, every networked router is both a provider and a receiver of information. The routing algorithm populates the routing table based on a lot of information. You know, the so-called routing is that the destination address pair tells the router to reach the destination. The best way for the destination. Specifically, the destination router sends a packet of information to the host, and when the host receives a packet, it checks its destination address and tries to contact it with that address."

Seeing Ige's pensive look, Alice kept on saying, "As for the switching algorithm, it's relatively simple. First, we need to set up the routing protocol, which is the interconnection mechanism of the heterogeneous network. When a network When the data packet is sent to another network, the router guides the path information for the IP data packet to be sent. The so-called protocol is the pre-agreed regulations and standards in this process.”

"Then, data exchange is based on this protocol, and data exchange is based on path selection. The best path to transmit information between different networks depends on this!"

"Well, Oscar, Hannah, how much do you understand?"

Finally, Alice looked at her younger siblings in the corner.

Of course, Alice didn't know how far the Bosacks and the others had researched, so at least half of her explanation just now was for the surrounding family members. After all, although I built this car behind closed doors, it was only a week before and after. The so-called router is a magic thing, they can understand it!

However, even though she had explained it as simply as possible, Alice smiled wryly and found that Hannah's eyes had long been replaced by a string of mosquito coils.

On the other hand, Oscar kept scratching his head, and said dawdly, "The routing algorithm and path selection are all mathematics courses in the university, right?"

There was a series of laughter in the office, Bosak laughed and said: "That's right, that's right, if you want to make a big progress in the field of programming, you must excel in mathematics!"

"Uh...I hate math..."

For the next whole afternoon, Alice never stepped out of this office again. Apart from simply experimenting with various types of network interconnection, she also had to answer various design ideas to the three experts, especially the three experts. Questions repeated four times.

In less than half an hour, Hannah grabbed Sophie and asked her to accompany him for a walk in the campus. Oscar was very interested in these experiments, and with James' patient company, he kept his eyes wide open and listened.

"So, the efficiency of the router is closely related to the CPU it uses, which is the biggest part of the cost. Look at the latest Intel model, $320, I bet you, the cost is less than ten dollars!"

When she said this sentence, Alice was really unambiguous at all. She knew very well that when Jobs first founded Apple, facing Intel's CPU of about 300 dollars, he abruptly cut the price to 75 dollars!

Three hundred, seventy-five, and Intel can still make money, super huge profits!

Gradually, the sky outside the window has been shrouded in twilight, and the orange light spreads all over the earth, but there are only a few more students on campus, maybe it's time for dinner.

"This is huge profits. Otherwise, how could Intel become one of the world's top 100 companies? You know, it was established in 1968."

Sitting on the computer chair, Posak said with emotion: "If I set up a company, I don't expect to make the company a big one, as long as the technology of routers can be popularized. After all, the industry we are engaged in, but in the Change the world!"

"Yeah, isn't the whole of Silicon Valley like this? Change the world, how many billionaire founders just drive a second-hand Chevrolet to work... Wait, don't plan to make the company bigger!?"

Seeing Alice stare in astonishment, Bosac shrugged naturally.

"That's right, as long as you can spread the technology, isn't it the greatest enjoyment to sit in the office and watch your products change the world?"