Interviewed Three Students: They Write Code, Born After 1995, From Mainland China and Taiwan

The post-90s and post-00s were lucky enough to grow up in a favorable environment. They had the opportunity to access and understand the Internet in their youth, and grew up with the mobile era. As Internet natives, they have better learning resources, convenient development tools, and an open ecological environment, which also allows them to know what they want to do earlier and work hard for it.

Heroes have always emerged from youth, and the same is true in the field of technology.

1969 Unix  It was born in AT&T Bell Labs, and soon after two UCBGraduate students Bill Joy and Chuck Haley  Improve it to the BSD version;

In 1991, a Linus Torvalds  of Finnish boys return to school after military service and are studyingJunior yearHe published Linux  An early version of

In 2004,Aaron Swartz, 18 Together with John Gruber, he designed and published Markdown, which has become the most popular lightweight markup language on the Internet.

In the course of history, there are always young people playing important roles, and schools have become the base camp for innovation and creation.

We interviewed three students born after 1995. They are obviously different: they are from the mainland and Taiwan, one is male and the other is female, and they have different research directions and personalities.

But they also have a lot in common: they are all young people born after 1995, all study computer science-related majors, and all love their research directions.

Tongji University's Wu Shaoling: Linus Torvalds is my idol

Wu ShaolingIntroduction

School: Tongji University

Department: Department of Computer Science, School of Electronic and Information Engineering

Research direction: Cloud computing and virtualization

Year of Birth: 1995

We pass X-Lab Open Laboratory project, and saw Wu Shaoling from the vast crowd.

This is an innovation laboratory jointly founded by Tongji University and East China Normal University. The team is mainly composed of graduate students and doctors from the two schools. They hope to synchronize the world through open source and create valuable products.

Wu Shaoling is involved in the open source digital sociology project at X-Lab, in which he is involved in building aOpen Source RoboticsThe goal is to transfer all matters in open source projects that were originally managed by humans to robots. "We hope that this project can promote the development of open source, make open source work more automated, and lower the threshold for participating in open source."

In addition, he is responsible for GitCourse Open Source Work.

GitCourse is an online training tool that innovatively uses a Git-based content creation system and a Docker-based training environment system. It has been used on the Kung Fu Programming (kfcoding.com) platform. Now,He and his team members hope to open source GitCourse so that more people can experience interactive course learning..

Under the introduction of his mentor Professor Wang Wei and driven by his own interests, Wu Shaoling will participate in this year's open source annual conference as aLightning TalksThe guest speaker in this session will share his experience, and he will also give a detailed introduction to GitCourse, which he is currently responsible for.

In his own research direction, Wu Shaoling is currently studying the construction of aOpen source FaaS platformThe main contents include ultra-lightweight runtime environment, delayed image distribution mechanism, including perception scheduling strategy and resource pool hot start acceleration. The ultimate goal is to apply it in the one-stop IT training service platform - Kung Fu Programming (kfcoding.com).

Wu Shaoling said with emotion,Open source has been a great help to his learningHe gave an example, "I am currently building a FaaS platform. One reason is to meet the needs of graduate students' academic research, and the other is to build a FaaS platform that can support large-scale practical training scenarios and actually apply it to Kung Fu programming.

During this process, I read some papers, tried the FaaS services of AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud, and built and tried some open source FaaS frameworks. Imagine if there were no open source frameworks, my understanding of FaaS would only stay at the level of theories in papers and usage documents of commercial platforms.With an open source framework, I can gain a deeper understanding of its principles and learn the design concepts behind it.”

As an open source participant, Wu ShaolingI admire the legendary Linus Torvalds the most.He said: "Linus's contribution to the Linux kernel is obvious to all, which is already a remarkable achievement. In addition, the development of open source Git has promoted the development of open source. These two contributions are enough to be admired."

In the future, Wu Shaoling said that he will continue to work in containerization and function computing in his current research field. 

Taiwan cute girl Lin Jinghua: A post-95s who studies cryptocurrency

About Lin Jinghua

School: National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Department: Department of Information Engineering

Research direction: Cryptocurrency

Year of Birth: 1995

In Taiwan, where the open source community is booming, many students have also joined in.Lin Jinghua from National Cheng Kung UniversityandWang Zanjun from National Taiwan UniversityIs one of them.

Lin Jinghua, who has served as a volunteer for many open source annual conferences, occasionally likes to visit open source communities or participate in discussions. "It was a great experience to follow COSCUP to HKOSCON in Hong Kong in June this year!"

She and her classmate Wang Zanjun will also give a speech at COSCon'19 on the themeEnsure data integrity and trade your dataspeech.

According to Lin Jinghua, the reason for choosing this topic is that they have been studyingData trading and data market architecture designTherefore, we hope to take this opportunity to promote the concept of data market and analyze the current challenges.

In addition, they will explain to attendees how they use distributed ledgers to solve problems.

In the view of his partner Wang Zanjun, in today's era of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, data is regarded as a valuable digital commodity. However, unlike traditional commodities, digital commodities can be easily tampered with or forged. “Through blockchain technology, we try to solve problems, increase the value of goods, and study feasible data transaction methods.”

"We look forward to exchanging and discussing with experts from all walks of life, which may inspire better ideas," said Lin Jinghua.

Lin Jinghua said,Open source has helped her a lot both in terms of technology and academics.Whether it is the IOTA Foundation or the National Cheng Kung University Distributed Ledger Lab (DLTcollab), both teams attach great importance to community interaction and open source. Most projects are open source, and any problems can be discussed directly with engineers.

“I contributed to one of the IOTA Foundation projects last summer, entangled. It was also my first time to actually participate in a project that was not part of my course or my own. I was very nervous every time I submitted it, including the wording. Although I still made mistakes, the engineers were very patient in pointing them out and discussing them, which made meImprove your programming and collaboration skillsAt the same time, I also felt full of warmth. ”

At present, Lin Jinghua's learning direction mainly revolves around the application of cryptocurrency IOTA and the underlying distributed ledger technology. For example, the data market to be shared this time is built on IOTA.

She also expressed special thanks to her two instructors: Mr. Huang Jingqun and Mr. Tu Jiaheng during the interview.
“With their encouragement and guidance along the way, I have achieved many breakthroughs that I would never have imagined before, such as internships and sharing my experience at COSCon'19.”

Perhaps, every open source contributor is the same, full of gratitude to the predecessors. It is with their selfless sharing, guidance and encouragement that the younger generations have made continuous progress and breakthroughs, and have more powerful products. 

Wang Zanjun of National Taiwan University: Refuse to be boastful and write code in a practical way

Introduction to Wang Zanjun

School: National Taiwan University

Department: Department of Information Engineering

Research direction: Blockchain and Internet of Things

Year of Birth: 1996

Like Lin Jinghua, Wang Zanjun also saw the COSCon call for papers on the COSCUP Open Source Annual Conference website. At that time, he and his team had achieved preliminary results in their research on decentralized data markets, and wanted to use this opportunity to communicate with more people and get more inspiration. So, in his words, "I am honored to be accepted."

He has participated in COSCUP events as a listener, and next month, he willFirst time attending the 2019 Open Source Annual Conference as a speaker"I am looking forward to meeting more experts and the latest technologies from home and abroad."

Wang Zanjun's current research interests focus onBlockchain and IoT, and open source has undoubtedly brought great help to his research. “Most blockchain projects are open source.It can help me understand the details of blockchain consensus algorithms, data structures, etc. Many IoT applications are also open source.It allows me to avoid reinventing the wheel during development and build on the foundation of my predecessors.”

When asked about his future career, he said: “I hope to becomeEngineers who can make technology practical do not pursue overly exaggerated technology, but solve people's actual needs., and continue to open source the code they develop, and communicate and learn with developers around the world. "

At the end of the interview, Wang Zanjun thanked Professor Huang Jingqun of National Cheng Kung University and Professor Liao Shiwei of National Taiwan University for their guidance during his undergraduate and graduate school years, which enabled him to remember the basic attitude of being a person and doing things while learning new knowledge and doing research.

With such a grateful attitude, we conduct research and invest in open source projects. We have reason to believe that open source technology will develop more rapidly and the open source field will have a brighter future.

A generation will eventually grow old, but there will always be someone young.

As young people gradually enter the stage, perhaps one of them will be the next Linus.

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