The architectural style here is just the same as the main part. After walking through the layers of simple corridors, Alice met her colleagues in an office area. It was a team of programmers of fifty people, and as Andrio said, everyone burst into love with Alice's joining.

After all, for this group of authentic programmers, Alice, who developed Windows alone and created the first router product, is the most popular star in the circle!

"Welcome to you, Alice!"

A man who knew who it was held Alice's hand and said excitedly: "My name is Tom Handerson. I bought my son the Windows installation disk. Okay, I bought it for me. You are simply a genius! No, you are a genius..."

"Hey, Alice, you don't have to pay attention to Tom."

At the bustling door, another young man like a college pushed Tom away: "My name is John. Tom has been working in Lockheed for seven years. I just joined the company half a year ago. Oh my God, I can actually work with Alice, boss, are you kidding?"

Andrio laughed and was about to answer the conversation, but Alice shook hands with John: "You were able to join such a special R&D team after just joining the company half a year ago. You must be amazing, right?"

"Okay, okay, guys, come one by one, come one by one, don't squeeze or mess up!"

According to the routine staff, the eight-hour workspace today will probably be severely reduced by one person's name and endless handshakes. Of course, of course, a beautiful girl like Alice came to a studio full of single programmers. Such a bright spring thing, let alone a shrinking eight hours, even if everyone pays a month's salary, I believe all the bachelors are happy, right?

Then, it was not until a doctoral student in theoretical physics who claimed to have graduated from MIT that showed Alice her computer screen that the noise caused by this personnel change finally stopped.

The dos system interface is full of code, enough to make any layperson's scalp numb, but Alice really wants to sit at the table like a relative. Her eyes are staring at the screen, and her five fingers on her left hand quickly typing on the keyboard, and countless codes roll quickly like wild bees flying.

"Ah, sensor gyroscope, this is a good thing."

Before the employee could explain, his eyes swept through the scene quickly, and Alice understood everything: "Then this one is, your balance control system based on the gyroscope? The code is a bit complicated..."

“Is there any room for modification?”

Seeing Alice carefully and quickly scanning the program she wrote, Hank was even nervous when he was asking.

At the same time, the desk was already surrounded by colleagues. Alice Wang set his sights on the system program written by Hank Micall, which is not an opportunity that you can get at any time.

"At present, it's just complicated and reduces the system processing speed."

Alice quickly took a screenshot of a string of code: "Look at this string, from this line to this line, the writing of this logic is somewhat repeated."

As he said that, without waiting for the young man to ask anything, Alice spoke directly with action.

Click another interface and tap the keyboard with both hands like an enclave. In just ten seconds, a string of codes that are only one-third long were successfully released.

"Look at me, then look at yours."

Alice's tone was quite calm, and she didn't show any sharpness in what she said: "Can it produce the same effect?"

Of course, Hank knew better than anyone else that the function of the code he had screenshot by Alice, so he didn't need to go back to the previous page. He stared at Alice's article and started to look at it.

Behind the two, seven or eight people kept approaching the screen.

"It's really... exactly the same!"

But after reading the entire code for a while, Hank shouted in shock: "The length is only one-third of the one in my article... but the function is exactly the same!"

"It's true, hey Hank, how did you write the code? Two-thirds of nonsense, hahaha~"

"Alice Alice, can you check out my code?"

"The length has been reduced by two-thirds, that is, the R&D time has been reduced by two-thirds? Or, in the same time, the performance has been improved by three times? My God..."

So, another employee invited Alice to his computer, and Hank's computer immediately welcomed the inhumane onlookers from seven or eight colleagues. For a moment, the whole office was filled with people talking loudly, and when Andrio spoke, he had to work hard to raise his voice.

"Guys, guys, I'll give you half an hour in total. Alice is the chief designer and technical consultant hired by the company. She not only sells coolies for our avionics program. She only gives you half an hour, and then I'll take her to visit the factory!"

If Oren Lockheed's idea was just asking Alice to try to compile avionics programs before the answer with Joseph. Then when she asked countless creative rhetorical questions about the overall design of the aircraft, this girl who already had a vocational title like "technical consultant" would naturally have a larger scope of authority...

It took half an hour to bring even a minute without any extra. When the time came, Andrio immediately pulled Alice out of the office. At the same time, more department heads also came out of the rooms in the office building. Aren’t they all the people Alice had seen during the meeting?

"Alice, hey, Alice!"

In the crowd in the corridor, Susan waved to a figure in the distance and said, "I'll introduce you to you, this is another Alice!"

Then, Alice had heard of something, and another "Alice" appeared.

She walked out of the crowd shyly and nervously. She was a very ordinary woman, in her early thirties, with brilliant blonde hair and wearing a white coat dedicated to the laboratory.

"Hi, hello, uh... Alice. My name is Alice, Alice Thompson."

Alice smiled bitterly and shook hands with "Alice" and said, "It's all because our names are too common. It seems that we'd better call you Thompson in the future, otherwise I'll have to go crazy."

Alice Thompson was obviously relaxed a little. When everyone walked towards the elevator together, she followed Alice, speaking a little faster than before: "But I am thirty-three years old this year. Oh, I graduated from MIT. I took the subject of computer hardware principles. That... Alice, when will I teach you how to design Windows if I have time?"

The compilation of computer operating systems requires programmers to have a very good grasp of the basic structure and operating principles of computer hardware. After all, this involves at least the driver issues of various hardware. Since Thompson was admitted to this type of major, she must pay more attention to the development of an entire operating system alone than anyone else.

"No problem, a piece of cake, uh, big guy, the elevator door is open."

The Lockheed Military Aircraft R&D Center, which occupied most of the land in the entire town, could of course not be just an office building. Just behind this building, a large piece of land was occupied by the factory.

It is also here that Alice witnessed the yf-22's fuselage with her own eyes.

Of course, the semi-finished products have been released, so it is not difficult to make an iron shell. The large aircraft with a length of nearly 20 meters and a wingspan of nearly 14 meters stands majestic on the open space. Not far away, there are many factory employees wearing work clothes and a complete military aircraft production line full of heavy industrial sense.

"Good guy, it's exactly the same..."

Looking at the true form of this military aircraft that will spread throughout the 21st century, Alice murmured softly: "yf-22, well... Joseph, is this where the machine gun is installed?"

Alice pointed her finger at the nose, and there was obviously a place where accessories could be installed. Joseph stood beside her and immediately replied: "Yes, we plan to install a 20mm caliber Vulcan machine cannon, but there must be too many matching orders. But here, there are four external plug-ins, and a built-in ammunition compartment that can be loaded with nearly 2,500 pounds of ammunition. This is the big guy!"

In fact, there is no need for Joseph to explain much. How could Alice not know the performance of the famous F-22 in later generations?

And the fundamental reason why she came here was that only she herself knew the most.

Lockheed Martin...

Well, it has not yet acquired a merger with Martin Marietta, but its industry status has not been affected at all. It was established as early as 1912 and is the world's largest defense contractor. What is this concept?

Although the United States has produced countless rich people, the companies that can truly have an influence on the country, or in other words, the most influential enterprises on the country, will always be financial oligarchs and military-industrial complexes, which are of this level.

As for companies such as Microsoft that face bankruptcy every 18 months, although their wealth quotas are much higher than those of such companies and it is easy to produce billionaires, when it comes to real influence, Bill Gates, the world-famous Bill Gates, may not be as good as the unknown arms dealers.

The so-called military-industrial complex refers to a huge interest group composed of military departments, military-industrial enterprises, some members of Congress and defense research institutions. The financial oligarchs with Wall Street as the core can directly affect the existence of basic prices across the country and even the world as long as they move their fingers and easily operate the stock price. In comparison, although people in Silicon Valley are talking about changing the world every day, this group of people are really affecting everyone.

After all, a person can not go to Twitter, Facebook, or even Google, or Baidu, or even computers can not even turn on. However, can he not satisfy his food, clothing, housing and transportation, and live in a country surrounded by the army?

This is Alice's real goal.
Chapter completed!