Article 407 Control Switch

This idea was proposed only a few months after the appearance of lasers. It is no exaggeration to say that they were geniuses. Actually, it was not until 1962 that the United States, the Russians, the French and other countries realized the idea and began to study laser gyroscopes almost at the same time.

Of course, Gao Zhendong, this genius, came in a bit of a weird way.

The leader of the Defense Work Committee smiled and said, "Yes, we have also evaluated and felt that this idea is feasible, so we found you comrades and hope to proceed to the next step of work."

Comrades, we are not stupid. Of course we know that this thing is feasible. I am not bragging. In our opinion, the comrade who proposed this principle is more reliable than you in terms of principle and route. What we need now is your further ideas for implementation.

Of course, this is something I can only think about, and it is not convenient to say it out loud.

Hearing this, the two professionals from the original research institute remembered something: "Leader, who came up with this idea? If it is convenient, we would like to meet with them. After all, some details may be lost in this kind of retelling."

There is nothing worth hiding about this. This is a necessary step after they accept the project. This thing is not obtained through special channels, and there is no way to ask the original author in person. This is proposed by their own family, and before starting work, the specific person in charge must be asked.

After all, Mr. Zhang is not a professional in this field. Professional matters still require professional personnel to communicate in person to maximize efficiency.

The leader confessed: "The person who proposed this principle is Comrade Gao Zhendong."

"Ah, it's Teacher Gao!" The two comrades from the original research institute were surprised and happy.

Others may not know who Gao Zhendong is, but how could they not know him? After all, in the laser paper, others may not remember it, but they will definitely remember this person's name.

Although they had never had any contact with Gao Zhendong before, these two comrades who worked on lasers still called him "Teacher Gao" very honestly.

If the inventor of the laser and the person who proposed the groundbreaking principle of laser application were not the same person, they would dare to take off their heads and kick them like a ball.

Now, they have more confidence in this laser gyroscope. A man's reputation is like a tree's shadow.

As the inventor of the laser, Mr. Gao must have in-depth thinking and research on the principles and applications of lasers. The application ideas he proposed on this basis must be well-thought-out and have great application prospects and feasibility.

But after inventing the laser, Professor Gao spent several months thinking about it before coming up with this idea. Several months!
This is a good job! The two researchers looked at each other.

"Leader, we have accepted this mission! We just need the committee to arrange it as soon as possible. We want to meet with Teacher Gao."

They are also knowledgeable people. It may not be easy to meet Mr. Gao Zhendong easily.

The leader was very happy: "Well, OK, this task is now handed over to you two. It may take a long time, but don't worry, we can wait. We are aware of the objective difficulties of scientific research tasks, not to mention this completely new field. We need motivation, but no pressure. We will notify Comrade Gao Zhendong."

It’s a good thing, but as to whether it can be accomplished, I can only be optimistic. However, it may not be accomplished overnight, so let’s relieve the pressure first.

The two researchers nodded repeatedly: "Okay, we will do our best! Let's go back and think about it carefully, make preparations, and then go to discuss with Teacher Gao."

Everyone's time is precious. Without thorough preparation, it would be a waste of time to sort out the questions you want to ask to the limit of your ability, which would be counterproductive.
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During the few days when the comrades from the original research institute were making preparations, a group of people were sitting in Gao Zhendong's office that day.

Although they are called a group, they are actually two groups. One group is from the Computing Institute, and the other is from the Institute of Communications. There is a bit of competition in the cooperation between the two sides.

In fact, it is a happy event. Gao Zhendong's "Guidelines for the Preparation of Software Development Documents" based on GB 8567-88 has been formally reviewed and approved.

Originally Gao Zhendong had done a very complete job, and the workload for both groups was actually not that large. The reason why it took some time was mainly because the Standards and Regulations Bureau was spending some time training its own staff.

There are not many people who can offer themselves to you voluntarily. It would be a pity if you don’t practice hard.

It can be said that a lot of first-hand experience of the World Standards and Regulations Bureau regarding the entire process of standard drafting units actively applying for national standards for drafting, reviewing, publishing, transitioning and taking effect comes from this standard.

There are many tricks involved. For example, if you look at the standard cover, you will know that there is a time difference between the standard publication date and the effective date. The publication date comes first and the effective date comes later.

What if it is an existing mandatory standard and a new version is released, then what will be the standard during the period from release to effectiveness?
The answer is both are fine. When the parties using the standard have agreed on a version number, the specified version shall prevail. When there is no agreement, either version may be used. If a dispute arises, the general principle is to use the older and lighter version.

As for the final review of this standard, the Bureau of Standards and Regulations also learned their lesson and directly stated that you are here mainly to evaluate the format and find typos and omissions. In addition, Comrade Gao Zhendong is busy with work and will not attend the meeting.

This time it will be much easier to find an expert. Since Teacher Gao will not be attending the meeting, that will make things easier.

The experts who came were quite enthusiastic and pointed out many problems to the Institute of Computing and the Institute of Communications. After all, there were many things that they had not yet fully understood. When the questions pointed out by others were difficult for them to answer, and they confirmed that they were not typos but were indeed Gao Zhendong's original text, they had no choice but to ask for help.

"This sentence is the original author's original text."

"We will specify the specific interpretation in the later supplementary standard usage guidance document."

Who is the original author? Gao Zhendong.

When everyone heard this explanation, they thought, you guys are playing tricks, right?

But since no one understands it, I think since Comrade Gao Zhendong wrote it in this way, it must have its meaning. We can only let it go and leave everything to the original author. We will understand it once the standard usage guidance document comes out.

That’s right, for some complex, difficult to understand, obscure and highly professional standards, a book similar to a user manual will be published.

The standard itself is required to be concise, clear and unambiguous, but in this case, some standards are inevitably difficult to understand or have questions, so the standard drafting unit will issue a supporting user manual to provide detailed explanations of the provisions, usage methods, usage examples, etc. in the standard.

No matter what, the draft of this standard has been reviewed and approved, and now there are only two things left for these two companies to do.

First, I came to ask Gao Zhendong what the unclear parts mean. If they can be explained clearly in the draft application, then they should be explained clearly in the draft application. If they are not convenient to be resolved in the draft application, then they should be resolved in the guidance documents.

The draft for review here is the version submitted to the review meeting, while the draft for approval is the version that is submitted for approval after necessary revisions are made based on the review opinions of the review meeting.

However, this kind of revision does not necessarily accept all modification suggestions and opinions. If there are sufficient and reasonable reasons, the reasons can be stated in documents such as the opinion response summary form and the modification suggestions or opinions may not be responded to.

The second is to cooperate with professional translators to translate this standard into English and prepare to send it to IEC. The two units are mainly responsible for content translation and technical support, while the standard-related work processes on the IEC side will be handled by the Standards and Regulations Bureau.

As for the other C language standard that was to be sent to IEC, it had already been translated when it was sent to the United States for publication, so there was not much work to be done this time.

Gao Zhendong was very happy after listening to their introduction, as he felt that he had accomplished another task. He worked carefully with the two units and answered their questions one by one.

Fortunately, there are not many such problems. They are mainly some new definitions and confusions about word usage. In fact, they have basically figured out the truly professional things.

When the people from the two units left with their harvest, Gao Zhendong kept the chief engineer of the Communications Institute for a while.

Looking at Chief Engineer Feng who was looking at him eagerly, Gao Zhendong said with a smile: "Boss Feng, let's meet after you finish the approval process."

Chief Engineer Feng's eyes lit up: "Chief Engineer Gao, what new topics are there?"

Gao Zhendong nodded and said, "Boss Feng, please prepare a group of electronic personnel, and also some computer software personnel. We are going to do something big this time."

He was preparing to learn about programmable switching systems. In his hand, he was holding the book on programmable switching systems that he had pulled out from the fourth company last time. It would be a pity not to use it.

This thing is a perfect match for the Institute of Communications.

Mr. Feng was overjoyed when he heard this. Even Chief Engineer Gao said it was a big job, so it must be a good thing.

The "telegraph digital communication machine" that they had worked on earlier, as well as the standard for software development, were not small things in Mr. Feng's eyes, but in Mr. Gao's mouth, they had never been considered as "making something big."

"Okay, I'll prepare the personnel when I get back! Chief Engineer Gao, can you please tell me what direction we are working on?"

Gao Zhendong pointed to the phone on the table and said, "Do this!"

"Deal with the phone?" This surprised Mr. Feng. In his opinion, there didn't seem to be much to do with the phone now, at least it wasn't a "big job".

Gao Zhendong nodded, then shook his head: "It's not a phone call, let's do a phone exchange! I'll ask you to do me a favor. During this time, summarize and collect information about the current status of our phone exchange. It will be useful when the time comes."

After all, Mr. Feng is a top technical expert in this industry. He probably guessed what Gao Zhendong was thinking: "Mr. Gao, do you want to develop the telephone from manual switching to automatic switching?"

Gao Zhendong laughed: "Yes, I want to make a telephone exchange controlled by computer programs, which is called a program-controlled exchange in short!"

(End of this chapter)