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发帖数: 5443 | 1 谁有能力挖挖到底谁是评委？
http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2015/02/critics-pounce-c
Controversy has erupted over China’s highest science prize for 2014.
Critics are blasting the winning project, on network computing, as not
innovative and undeserving.
On 9 January, the State First-Class Natural Science Award went to Zhang
Yaoxue, a computer scientist and member of the prestigious Chinese Academy
of Engineering, and his team. The 200,000 yuan ($32,000) annual prize is
considered prestigious because it is awarded sparingly: Nine times in the
past 15 years there have been no winners. The government has said that it is
better to have no winners than to award the prize to undeserving work.
That’s why many scientists are fuming over the selection of Zhang’s “
transparent computing” research for the 2014 award. Zhang’s work is “too
engineering-oriented and too ordinary” to warrant the top science prize,
and the award has drawn “a barrage of criticism” from China’s information
technology community, says Liu Yang, a computer engineer who builds and
hosts websites. Liu was the first to question the merit of Zhang’s work on
ScienceNet.cn; he wrote in a blog post (later deleted by censors) that Zhang
’s work “at most is an application of some open-source software.” Many
people share Liu’s view. Wang Xiaoping, a computer scientist at Tongji
University in Shanghai, wrote in a blog post that Zhang’s work is “a far
cry” from the standard required for winning the science award.
In an interview in Science and Technology Daily, the mouthpiece of China’s
science ministry, which oversees the nation’s science prizes, Zhang
describes his work as a “meta–operating system” that allows operating
systems to be run on any hardware. The breakthrough, he says, lies in “
separating computing from storage and making software independent of
hardware.” He gave a link to a video demonstrating “transparent computing
” on personal computers, tablets, and smart phones. Comments posted at that
site say that Zhang’s model is no different from a remote desktop—a
software tool that allows users to access another device on a network with
the local device serving as a desktop of the remote computer—or from a
network computer, a diskless device made by some U.S. companies in the late
1990s that depends on other devices on a network to store software and data.
Zhang did not respond to an e-mail request for comment.
For years, many in China’s scientific community have criticized the
selection process for S&T prizes as too political. The process involves
researchers submitting their own work to ministries, agencies, and
provincial governments, which then nominate submissions for awards. Before
being appointed president of Central South University in Changsha in 2011,
Zhang had served for more than a decade as an official at the education
ministry, which nominated his work for the award. An anonymous comment on
ScienceNet.cn put it this way: Zhang’s “transparent computing is so
transparent that it’s like the emperor’s new clothes.”
China’s professional computer society, the China Computer Federation (CCF),
seemed to disagree with the selection of Zhang’s work for the top science
award. On 21 January, CCF posted an appeal on its website, calling on the
government to stop meddling in science awards. The statement was replaced 2
days later with a notice saying that the appeal was not related to last year
’s science awards and was removed “in order not to mislead the public.” | f***e
发帖数: 5443 | 2 “Zhang’s work “at most is an application of some open-source software.”
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