Chapter 699 - 479: Apprenticeship with John von Neumann!_3

The names were set, and the atmosphere of the meeting immediately became formal.

Experts from the three academies spent an hour reviewing the materials, and then Fang Huai explained his specific ideas.

The "brain" of the system—the electronic computer—required a computer with large capacity, multiple functions, and high speed, especially good software, and the formation of a computer network.

The "neurological center" of the system—the Command System—required technical equipment mainly consisting of a processing platform, application software, and databases.

These two parts were what he planned to focus on conquering.

As for the system’s limbs, eyes and ears, and meridians, the corresponding equipment—image transmission devices, communication equipment, fiber optic cables, satellites, airplane radars, electronic reconnaissance vehicles, and ships—were beyond his influence.

He only needed to do what he could do; for the trunk, organs, and blood vessels, the military had to make the connections themselves.

According to Fang Huai’s emergency response plan, the Firefighting service could also contribute—by providing geographic environments, topographic features, meteorological conditions, and other rescue-required data collection, then sharing it through the Firefighting Command System.

Fang Huai also proposed at the meeting that the construction of the People’s Armed Police duty management system was a significant step taken in the light of current conditions towards information management and that in the future, functions like reconnaissance intelligence, early warning detection, and database supplementation could be expanded upon this foundation.

The Kunming Firefighting Command could brainstorm to consider what additional rescue information the firefighting system needed to collect and share with this system.

He also took the opportunity to suggest a joint development idea between the three schools and the Huai Power Technology Company.

Such an achievement was significant, and one institution alone couldn’t handle it all even if only a bit of progress was made.

The Army Academy was already part of the People’s Liberation Army structure, the Armed Police Academy could also draw on the experience from the development process for its system, the Firefighting Kunming Command...

I don’t care; Fang Huai is ours, the concept is ours, and Huai Power Technology is our partner. We provide the computer room space, we provide the technicians, and you must include me in the fun.

No, it’s us leading the game!

During the meeting that afternoon, everyone grew increasingly amazed at the theory’s advancement and comprehensiveness, and as the discussion went on for over three hours, a consensus gradually formed.

We must do it; it is essential.

The system, already perfect in concept and highly advanced in philosophy, only needed to reach the initial stage of creating a software framework, meaning to implement an interface design and the coding process. Although complex and labor-intensive, the challenge was not significant—it was somewhat like, in the name of the three academies, fine-tuning the concept a bit more before presenting it to the leadership.

As for the subsequent development, they had to wait for the orders from the Chengdu Military Region commanders.

Once approved, the three academies could gather their forces and carry out functional implementation at Kunzhi, completing the design of the database and management platform.

Once they finished this step, they could already start to reap the benefits; if they could also take on the following development task, that would be incredible, surely becoming a national A1-level top-tier project!

And they wouldn’t even need to provide funds; the advanced computers and processing units for the computer rooms would be supplied by Huai Power Technology Company.

With pie falling from the sky, who wouldn’t be tempted?

So much so that Dean Chen of the Army Academy still felt somewhat uneasy after the entire meeting:

"Comrade Xiao Fang, your ideas are very advanced, and you have a company back at home. This design, do you really want us all to work on it together? Even if it’s just kicking things off, that would be a great accomplishment!"

Fang Huai offered a modest smile.

"Without you all, I couldn’t make it happen."

Dean Chen nodded with a relieved smile.

"Wise."

Fang Huai smiled again; before the meeting today, he had indeed looked up some quotations from John von Neumann.

One saying resonated with him:

In a world that evolves together, control and secrecy can only be counterproductive; in a non-zero-sum game, if you make your strategy public, other players must adapt to it.