When we were young, we often tossed and turned over the naive question of "whether to take Tsinghua or Peking University". When I grew up, I discovered that only a few students, whether Tsinghua or Peking University, could be admitted, which required unimaginable efforts and rare talents.
However, in Tsinghua, there is still a saying that "half of the country's talents are gathered in Tsinghua, and Tsinghua is half British in Yao Ban". As described in this sentence, there are countless Tsinghua students scrambling to enter it every year, and Tsinghua students are proud of being able to enter the "Yao Ban". So, what kind of existence is this Yao Ban?
Academician Yao Qizhi founded the Yao Ban.
Yao Ban, as its name implies, is a class founded by Academician Yao Qizhi. Yao Qizhi is a member of the American Academy of Sciences. He is not only a world-famous computer scientist, but also the founder of modern cryptography in the world.
He has made outstanding contributions in the top three academic fields in the world and is the only Chinese who won the Turing Award. In the field of computer science, the Turing Prize is equivalent to the Nobel Prize and enjoys high authority in the world.
In 2005, Academician Yao Qizhi resolutely sold his house in the United States, resigned as a tenured professor at Princeton University and returned to China at the invitation of Academician Yang Zhenning.
This is a valuable choice for a 57-year-old scientist, who has made a success in the United States and is paid the best.
Professor Yao Qizhi's purpose is very clear. He wants to repay the motherland, train talents for the motherland and make up for the gap of top computer talents in China.
Realistically speaking, there is a big gap between China and the developed countries in the computer industry. At this point, Yao Qizhi, at the top of the industry, knows better than anyone.
Therefore, he wants to select and focus on cultivating elite talents through the establishment of "Yao Ban", so that it is possible to cultivate top international innovative computer science talents with the same competitive strength as top students in world-class universities such as MIT.
It is with this dream that after Professor Yao Qizhi returned to China, he set up this computer science experimental class in Tsinghua, aiming at cultivating top computer science talents in China. The students were surprised and rushed to run for office.
It can be said that this experimental class basically brings together the smartest and top students in the country and enjoys the best educational resources in the country. In this way, "Yao Ban", which is well-known in China's colleges and universities and taught by Academician Yao Qizhi himself, was born.
Students' Choice and Future in Yao Ban
With fame, the selection of "Yao Ban" is naturally very strict, and students without real talent and learning will never be allowed to blend in. In fact, there are more than 3,000 freshmen in Tsinghua University every year.
And "Yao Ban" always has only 50 students, one in a hundred, and the competition is fierce. Moreover, according to the public information in official website, there are not many students who enter Yao Ban without taking the college entrance examination in Tsinghua University, and most of them are top science students in various provinces. Others are students who walk or enroll themselves independently, which can be described as talented.
In addition, without exception, these 50 people participated in mathematics, physics or information technology competitions and won prizes, and they made achievements in the scientific field. It can be seen that these teenagers are all plastic talents, and there is no mediocrity.
Since the start of classes in 2005, Yao Ban has sent away 12 graduates, and the rate of students' visiting abroad in their junior year has reached 100%.
Most people choose to go to famous universities in the United States, Singapore, France and other places for further study, and some people go to work in internationally renowned computer companies such as Google. 10 graduates enter international first-class universities such as Stanford and Princeton to teach.
In fact, most of these outstanding computer talents, who once made their alma mater, Tsinghua, and their mentor, Yao Qizhi, proud, stayed overseas, studied and taught in foreign universities, or worked in international companies. However, few people chose to stay at home, which made people feel sad.
Of course, some people choose to work in domestic companies such as Netease and Tencent, and graduates start businesses together. The most famous thing is to despise technology.
Its artificial intelligence algorithm and face recognition technology are world-leading, which makes the United States sit up and take notice and even enter the list of American entities. In addition, there are companies such as Ma Xiao Zhixing and Qingying Medical, which were also founded by Yao Ban graduates.
The legend of China people and the pride of China people.
However, no matter what path they finally choose, it turns out that the top-notch strategy of "Yao Ban" is wise. The students who graduated from here have basically been active in the computer field, showing the world that the wisdom of China people is no less than that of any other country and writing the legend of China people.
Thanks to the efforts of all the teachers and students in Yao Ban. In the global university ranking of 20 18, Tsinghua University, China has replaced MIT as the world's first university in computer science.
In 20 19, a young computer scientist from Tangshan, Hebei Province, China won the Sloan Research Award, which has always been called the "Nobel Prize weathervane" because nearly 50 scientists who have won this award have won the Nobel Prize so far.
The young scientist born in Yao Ban is the first graduate of Yao Ban, and now he is an assistant professor at Duke University. There are countless such excellent students in Yao Ban, and there are many "geniuses" in this class that even Tsinghua teachers marvel at.
It can be said that the students of "Yao Ban" in Tsinghua University are absolutely the top talents of the same age in computer research. Their research results during their undergraduate years have made it difficult for other undergraduates of the same age to catch up. Even if they study for a master's degree or even a doctorate, they may not be able to compete with them.
It has trained and delivered so many first-class talents for the computer industry and realized the original intention of Academician Yao to create this class, which is well-deserved.
Yao Ban, Tsinghua University, gathers the best and most potential talents in the field of science among the national senior three graduates every year. Although everyone has his own choice, outsiders can't blame him.
However, we still hope that those outstanding "Yao Ban" students who go abroad can learn more advanced knowledge abroad like their mentor Yao Qizhi, not be confused by wealth, serve the motherland, serve the country, and contribute their talents and knowledge to the development of the motherland.
I hope that one day, our domestic universities will no longer need to rely on "Yao Ban", a talent class of one in a hundred, to compete with the education level of foreign first-class universities.