[1] THE SCHOLAR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM (END)
Chapter 37: I Agree

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Translator: Translated Henyee Editor: Translated Henyee

Jin Ling University meeting room. Emergency meeting is held. The principal specifically asked the dean of the computer science department to attend.

Many professors were in their labs when they were called to meetings.

The topic of the meeting was simple. It was about one problem, which was an article that circulated on Weibo: [On the topic of modern Chinese university academics: Starting from the thesis of undergraduate students].

The article states that an undergraduate student publishes nine computer science theses within a month. It was used as an entry point to criticize the academic atmosphere of higher education institutions in China and their weak journal review process. It was also mentioned that the student was from Jin Ling University.

The article was basically grilling Jin Ling University.

During the meeting, an old computer science professor adjusted his glasses, stood up, and said nonchalantly, “I've read nine theses and they've all been written quite well. It's pretty impressive that an undergraduate student can write like this. He did try to submit quite a number of theses, but his thesis was more sophisticated than most other computer science theses. Zhu Fangcai's educational commentator may not know much about information science. Maybe we should communicate with him, make him admit his mistake, and ask him to remove the article. "

Why should one be criticized for publishing too many theses?

The professor was very confused and he did not know why this meeting was necessary!

"Not realistic ... This person, Zhu Fangcai, knew what his level was. Look degree. Educational commentator, science writer. He operates in a different field than us, ” said the secretary at the meeting table. He shook his head and said, “He's looking for conflict. He will not negotiate with you. "

This situation is difficult to face.

The student did nothing wrong and the university obviously could not get that student out. The problem is that society is one-sided and they condemn universities.

The whole situation is ridiculous. Fingers point to non-academics using their own status and influence.

The school management staff did not understand the motivation.

Thank God, this was not the case during the university enrollment period. Otherwise, the people in this meeting would be extremely angry.

After all, the situation had damaged the reputation of the university!

School Head Xu's facial expression was bad. He was silent for half a minute before he said slowly, “Currently, it doesn't matter if this thesis is of good quality. What matters is that the community questions our integrity. Our top priority is to remove that suspicion and clarify the situation. On the other hand, we should also find out what really happened! "

They had discussions all afternoon and finally made two decisions.

On the one hand, schools must save their public reputation and explain the academic value of this thesis. They should also send a cease and desist letter and apologize. On the other hand, they had to ask the deans to find out who Lu was and to find out the true situation.

Nine SCI theses in one month with one more thesis of two digits. That sounds suspicious. Professors from these various departments all submit substandard theses for financial gain, but they never do this crazy thing!

However, at this moment, the various deans did not know that Lu Zhou had actually submitted 10 theses. Instead of computer science, the latter is in mathematics ...

...

Weibo Comments.

[F* ck me, an undergraduate student who publishes 9 SCI theses, is definitely a scam. Is it really that easy to publish?]

[... I think I can do it too. (dog emoji)]

[Support Teacher Zhou! Fight against academic cancer! Fix this scam! (head) (head)]

[A student who claimed to be from MIT said that this would never happen in America. The journal must have been exploited and the review process was false ..]

[Sad! What kind of student does my university produce! What is the point of writing a thesis? Can you turn your thesis into a nuclear bomb? Even an undergraduate student can publish so much, our country's academics are hopeless.]

[You try to write nine theses in a month, a bunch of keyboard warriors.]

F* ck, what the hell is this?

Even one person with a normal IQ is on my side?

Twenty thousand shares, ten thousand comments, countless sights!

Lu Zhou sat in an empty classroom and browsed Weibo. He has no solution.

No one wants to find out the truth. They just want to believe what is in front of them.

According to Mr. Zhu, this thesis is worthless, but how many people actually read it?

Impossible.

Lu Zhou wanted to take revenge on these allegations and registered a Weibo account. He posted a comment and no one even liked it.

Perhaps this is a consequence of having an unpopular Weibo account ...

Lu Zhou meditated and calmed himself down. He turned off his phone and scratched his head.

He thought he had chosen an easier mission. He never thought that he would get into this much trouble.

It's because of his negligence too. If he used an alias to publish this thesis, no one would notice. It's too late now.

Suddenly, the phone rings.

It was from Professor Tang.

Lu Zhou had a confused expression on his face. There was no reason for Professor Tang to call him.

Is it because of the thesis? Hopefully not, right?

"Hello?"

"Little Zhou, what are you planning?"

Lu Zhou heard his voice calm and he relaxed as he replied, "I studied in class, what is it?"

Professor Tang paused for a moment before continuing, "Come to my office if you're free."

"Now?"

"Yes, now."

...

Lu Zhou tidied up his laptop and books before heading to Professor Tang's office.

He walked in and saw that Dean Lu of the mathematics department and Dean Zhang of the computer science department were also there.

Lu Zhou walked in and the three professors smiled. They glanced at each other subtly and used their body language to communicate. Finally, Professor Tang who sighed and said, "Lu Zhou, I have to ask you something."

Lu Zhou replied, "Professor, please ask."

Professor Tang continued, "That period of time ... After you submit your Math thesis, are you subject to SCI again?"

Lu Zhou knew that he could not hide and, he answered honestly, "Yes I do."

Dean Zhang looked at Dean Lu before saying helplessly, “I know that. There aren't many students in our department by the first name of Lu. None of them knew how to write a thesis, let alone submit it. ”

Professor Tang was worried. He asked with concern, "You submitted a mathematical thesis, right?"

"Yes .." said Lu Zhou honestly while nodding his head. He then added softly, "And another thesis ... That's about artificial intelligence and geographic information systems."

Professor Tang's eyes almost popped out, "You ... Why did you jump into computer science! Didn't you examine the Mersenne prime numbers just a few days ago? "

“I saw that the shipment paid money. 150 yuan per thesis, ”said Lu Zhou apologized. He looked at Professor Tang and calmly said, "Then I separated my research into nine parts, and handed them over ..."

Professor Tang: "..."

Dean Lu: "..."

Dean Zhang: "..."

Is there a problem?

Obviously no problem. After all, the university encourages students to submit a thesis. Giving up money is a bit strange, but nothing bad ...

However, this situation creates problems.

The office became quiet. Dean Lu finally coughed and spoke in a friendly tone, "Eh ... Student Lu, did you write your own thesis?"

"Yes, of course," Lu Zhou said. He nodded as he continued, "I wrote it in the library."

He does not lie because buying knowledge from the system is not enough to write a thesis. He still had to research the parts that he did not understand. At most, he simply copied the calculation process.

He read over a hundred documents and many books to write the thesis.

They don't even need to look at security cameras. They could only ask some artificial intelligence or GIS system questions and Lu Zhou would be able to answer all of them.

Of course, if they were to ask some difficult questions like the application of artificial intelligence in other fields, he might not be able to answer them. However, he could still use common points to buy his answer on the spot. It's just that it'll be useless ...

Dean Lu didn't know what to say. Dean Zhang who stood up, smiled, and said, “Dean Lu didn't mean anything by that. He is just surprised that you are so adept at information science. I've seen your C language exam. 95 is very good. Obviously I believe that you wrote this thesis yourself ... But some people don't believe you and one even writes an article about it. Have you ever been on Weibo? "

Actually, in fact, most artificial intelligence is written in C ++, which is very different from C. The teacher only teaches the basic syntax of C ++ and does not dive deep into the language at all.

Dean Zhang knew that anyone who could write such a thesis, would be proficient in C language as well. A score of 95 satisfied his expectations.

"You're talking about that article?" Ask Lu Zhou.

"Yes" said Dean Zhang. He looked at Lu Zhou and nodded, "You've read it?"

Lu Zhou replied, "I've read it." Even though he was very angry, he remained calm outside. He shook his head and carelessly said, “Those items have no brains. I refused to go down to their level. "

In his heart, he actually wanted to stab the writer.

"Student Lu, I have to correct you," Dean Lu said. He looked at Lu Zhou seriously, “You are not just one person. You are a student of our school. You represent the reputation of our school! We will not allow unscrupulous students but we will also not allow anyone to damage the reputation of our students. Hope you can adjust your attitude and take this seriously. "

“But Dean Lu, I can't do anything. I wrote to him and he did not reply, ” said Lu Zhou impatiently.

"Actually, Dean Lu just wants you to have a more positive attitude," Dean Zhang said in a calming tone. “As for public reputation, our school will conduct a press conference. We hope you can work with us and speak for yourself and the school. Is that okay?"

You guys just want me to talk?

Easy, why didn't you tell me earlier?

Lu Zhou relaxed and nodded.

"I agree!"

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