The next day, after breakfast, Nick and Zack originally planned to go out for a stroll, but unexpectedly, Bill called and asked them to come over.
Originally, after signing the contract, Nick and the others could have returned to Tampa, but Bill and his team asked them to stay for a few more days. The implication was clear: they wanted to confirm that there were no problems with what Nick provided before letting them leave.
Secondly, they also wanted to stay for a few more days, waiting for the first payment of 60 million to arrive before leaving. Although they were cooperating with a military-backed organization and there was no issue with credibility, they still wanted to confirm it.
There was no help for it; who let them see so much money for the first time? So they were a bit nervous.
No one came to pick them up this time, so they had to take a taxi. The Atlanta taxi driver was quite chatty. Upon learning that the two were going to the Air Force Equipment Research Institute, the driver started talking their ears off.
Stories about the compound, gossip about Atlanta, and who he had met before. Nick wasn't very interested, but Zack, this guy, was very gossipy and started chatting with the driver.
After driving for more than ten minutes, the car finally arrived at the gate of the research institute. With no one there to meet them, the two had to go to the guard station to explain the situation.
After verifying the situation, the duty soldier let the two register before letting them in. The driver, who had been waiting not far away, only left after watching them go in. It seems the awareness of the people in Atlanta is indeed high.
They hadn't walked many steps when they saw David hurrying towards them. This time, he didn't take them to the building from yesterday but to a smaller building further inside.
After David's introduction, this small building was Bill's laboratory.
Unlike what Nick had imagined, there were many young faces in the laboratory, many of whom looked like they were twenty-five or twenty-six. These were the graduate students and doctoral students of the professors and experts here. In David's words, 75% of the entire laboratory consisted of young people around thirty.
These young people were responsible for the specific research work of all the projects in the laboratory.
When these people saw Nick and Zack, they couldn't help but feel curious. They had all heard of the two, but they didn't expect them to be so young, so they cast curious glances at them.
Under David's guidance, the two arrived at a large conference room, which was full of people. On the large TV screen on one side, some data was displayed, which looked very familiar to Nick.
Seeing the two enter, Bill, who was sitting at the head of the table, stood up and smiled: "Nicholas is here. Sit down quickly; we were just talking about you."
"Okay." Nick nodded and then sat in the seat opposite Bill. Only then did he have time to look at the people present. Except for an old man similar in age to Bill and a few middle-aged people in their early forties, most of the others were young people similar to David.
Among these people, he didn't see Deputy Director Liam or Reese from yesterday. Except for a few young people he had seen in Miami before, the others were very unfamiliar.
Many of the people present were wearing military uniforms. Except for one Senior Colonel in his forties, most of the others held civilian ranks of level six or seven.
"Let me introduce you. This is Professor Denzel Maddox." Bill pointed to the old african-american man sitting next to him.
"Hello, Professor Denzel." Nick greeted him quickly.
Denzel looked at him with a smile and said: "The young man is quite energetic. Are you interested in studying for my graduate degree?"
Er... Nick smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
Hahaha, everyone laughed. Bill pointed to the Senior Colonel and said: "This is Director Kai."
"Hello, Director Kai." Nick greeted him.
"Hello!" Kai smiled and nodded at him.
After introducing the two, Bill didn't intend to continue introducing. Instead, he smiled at Nick: "Ever since we received the technical materials and program files you gave us yesterday, we couldn't wait to start researching them."
"To be honest, we were really surprised. We never expected that you young folks could make this program like this."
"Even here, not many people can write code so rigorously and neatly."
"Besides that, we also discovered that you used a brand-new architecture and many innovative algorithms for the entire system program kernel."
"This has posed a difficult problem for us. I'm afraid it will be hard for us to fully understand this system technology without some time for study and research."
Nick smiled upon hearing this: "It was experimental at the beginning, so I used some of my own ideas and new algorithms. I never thought about using it for a startup."
"Later, during testing, I found that this kernel architecture was quite stable, so I used it directly."
"It is quite good. Both the scale and efficiency, as well as the extensibility, are very good, but the readability is a bit poor," Denzel said, looking at him.
"That's because I was in a rush, so I cut corners where I could," Nick said somewhat embarrassedly: "If you need it, we can help you at any time until you fully master this system program."
Bill looked at the two and joked with a smile: "That's for sure. If you sell a product, you naturally have to provide after-sales service, otherwise I'll have to go to the Consumer Association to report you."
Hahahaha...
After everyone laughed, they immediately entered into the specific details.
Bill also rarely had the opportunity to pull Nick aside to discuss things.
"The methods in this SpringMVC are basically independent, exclusive to request and response data, and request data must be obtained through parameters. The processing results are handed back to the framework via ModelMap, and then..."
"We use cluster array information interaction transmission technology to connect all sub-units. Then we effectively connect the individual sub-units to form a brand-new architecture. This architecture is not immutable; it can be adjusted and changed according to needs to focus on a certain aspect of capability..."
....
In the next few days, except for sleeping at night, Nick and the others stayed in the laboratory to discuss technical issues with Bill and his team.
His some forward-looking arguments also made these experts suddenly enlightened and applaud!
In order to thoroughly understand this technology and related system programs, Bill also let David take a group of people to follow them and learn. He intended to let Nick and the others teach by example and strive to train this group of people.
But Nick didn't have the patience or the time. If Bill and the others hadn't forcibly held him back, he probably would have returned to Tampa long ago.
As news came from Tyler and the others that the 60 million funds had reached the company's account, Nick couldn't hold back anymore and immediately proposed to leave to Bill.
At this moment, his mind had already flown back to Tampa, because there were still too many things waiting for him there.