A short story about “3Js” in LSC of DMU(II)

                              —DMU的“J氏三杰”(b)

J1 →J2  J1 was greatly moved by J2’s attitude. As a return, he decided to hand over all of his reference materials accumulated up to that time, all of the program lists,  all program documentations, …dealing with SMS to J2’s group. In short, J1 had nothing left in the scope of SMS research, and he would never be able to make any further effort in this field again.

 J1 thought he would have enough room to pay attention to, especially in designing an autopilot for ship’s steering using “modern control strategy”, but he did not notice sufficiently that this decision made his future research more tough ,full of uncertainty and unpredictivity.

J2 has been successful after 3～4 year time struggling. Their first SMS   was completed in 1997, the system was really impressive by combining the precise mathematical model of ship maneouvring and the three dimensional dynamic images of ship motion. The commercialization of SMS proceeded smoothly.

In 1999, when J1 retired from his position as the dean of LSC, he recommended J2 to take over his job, that opinion was approved by the   authority of DMU.

J2 →J3     J3, younger than J2 for 7～8 years old, graduated from Zhejiang University, is a clever man. He was selected by J2 as member of his research group. Quickly, J3 was sent to Australian Navigational University to make visiting study, and J2 had made quite a comprehensive schedule for J3’s reference. Then J3 became J2’s  “second in command”,   responsible to software  development. J3 presented his intelligence and ability in his job, which won J1’s appreciation to a great extent.

J3 →J2     It was in1999, J2 did not do concrete “leading work” any more, J3 became the practical head of SMS group. Once upon a time, J3 talked to me when he returned from a business trip harvesting a big contract : “ Some body asked me an embarrassing question: ‘what does J2 do in the SMS research?’ ”, he continued: “to this question, I can say nothing, J2 did not do anything in fact.” His unfair evaluation about J2 was quite beyond my understanding.  Why people forgot other one’s help so quickly? I asked myself.

Such an environment and atmosphere made J1 to leave from the group at last to create  his second battlefront—This is life!

J2’s new field   Now J2 is working in a new field—safety assessment for water ways and ports regarding to ship maneouvring. He has demonstrated himself for second time as a strong man, he is appreciated by the new users of his “new products”.

J3     Now J3 is the top leader of SMS Group and LSC, enjoying all the research results on SMS. However, where the results come from? Who has made contributions to them?  This matter is worth thinking.

Nobody is perfect. Recently, a hearsay made me astonished: J3’s skills on computer is not as high as people may think of, in fact, he has even difficulties in typing a word document….. All the work are being done by his employees, this is in some way like what J2 was doing before. So I am wandering if there is such a possibility that J3 would go the similar way as J2? I do not hope so.

Postscript  All of the contents in this blog comes from ideas myself, the writer did not discuss them with somebody else beforehand, so he should be responsible to any inquiry in case it happens.

**Thanks are given to Prof. Yang Meimei for her help in confirming and revising some sentences in this blog grammatically.