This also shows that Dou Dou is very serious about operating the Qiao Ze Award.
Regardless of the details, the first step is to build momentum.
The last part is the candidate interface for the year 2024, which is still empty for now.
The bottom of the website directly links to the official website of the Xi Lin Mathematical Research Institute and the official website of "New Discoveries in Mathematics and Physics" magazine.
Although the website is up and running, every day on the internet, tens of thousands of new websites are born. Ninety-nine percent of these websites have virtually no traffic.
For countless webmasters big and small, the cost of acquiring traffic is often far greater than the cost of building the site.
But this is clearly not a problem for Dou Dou.
It didn't even leverage the influence of public internet platforms like Weibo at all.
After all, academic awards are serious business and should not be trivialized.
But as everyone knows, submitting a paper to a journal requires providing a mailing address.
The email addresses used by the big names in academia to receive journal notifications are all public.
Besides, the contact details of major research institutes, universities, and other organizations around the world with public outreach needs are all in Dou Dou's database. All it takes is circumventing firewalls to ensure the mass emails reach the inboxes of these well-educated individuals without being deleted as spam, guaranteeing they will be read.
This is, of course, not a difficult task for Dou Dou.
Even the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences received an email from Dou Dou.
In short, within twenty-four hours after the official website went live, the academic world knew that Huaxia had established such an award.
Moreover, the reasons for its establishment, the prize money, the goals it seeks to achieve, and the specific selection rules are all clearly displayed on the official website, clear at a glance.
By the third day, the official website had reached 1,389,671 visits.
A traffic of 1.38 million in three days might not seem like a lot. But this is the data without any promotion among the general public.
The majority of the traffic was contributed by scholars and scientists from various countries recognized by Dou Dou, as well as their students.
Instantly, a huge uproar swept through the entire academic community.
Just as Dou Dou had planned, naming the award after Qiao Ze, and not Xilin, was meant to capture enough attention and create talking points right from the start.
Without a doubt, the moment the award was announced, it garnered a full-scale buzz.
The first to spark heated debates and dissatisfaction was the fact that this scientific award did not use the nomination system commonly employed by other natural science awards.
You see, any rule that has been universally applied across all fields of society for decades or centuries has its set beneficiaries.
Especially a nomination system .
In the case of the Nobel Prize, only recommendation letters written by institutions or individuals recognized by its governing committee or previous Nobel laureates or other designated individuals are accepted.
Even on a global scale, very few institutions and individuals are qualified.
So for those qualified to make recommendations, this is an invisible right in itself.
Whether to recommend this year, and whom to recommend, is a very subjective matter.
It's not to say that some scholars wouldn't earnestly fulfill this duty based solely on academic achievements, but there will always be those who capitalize on these rights.
Why shouldn't I recommend him but recommend you instead?!
Not to mention that as long as it involves people, there will always be varying degrees of closeness, and likes and dislikes.
Now, the Qiao Ze Award is not only challenging the Nobel Prize but also taking this right out of everyone's hands, which is a bit too much.
Especially for many academic heavyweights, this is obviously uncomfortable.
Having made so many contributions in the past, to have an academic award in his field of research with no right to recommend and completely controlled by artificial intelligence is somewhat outrageous.
Secondly, the evaluation rules.
Candidates are directly publicized on the website, all achievements turned into contribution points scored directly, and rankings displayed in real-time?
Is this going to directly quantify each person's contribution in academia?
Although Dou Dou has made the algorithm public, by what right can an AI rank the contributions of scholars?!
Then there's the much-criticized public announcement period.
Scientific awards also need public announcement?!
Is this how awards are judged?
Traditionally, scientific awards are kept confidential until the official announcement, and before the final moment, no one knows the winner.
The Qiao Ze Science Award is actually putting everything in the open for public judgment?
So, on what grounds?!
Honestly, Xu Dajiang's concerns were not unfounded; many great scholars initially dismissed the details of the Qiao Ze Award.
But what Xu Dajiang didn't expect was that the set of rules established by Dou Dou stirred up a storm among the younger generation of students.
In private, discussions about the Qiao Ze Award among those young individuals planning to embark on scientific research exploded.
"Cool, so cool! Just thinking that my advisor's name could appear on the candidate list and be scored by Dou Dou, it feels hilarious to me."
"Cool or not, I think the rules announced by the Qiao Ze Award are much fairer than the Nobel Prize."
"Yes, yes, indeed much fairer. As long as Dou Dou really makes the contribution algorithm public and everyone can check the points, it's definitely fairer than the nomination system. Why should those few old guys always be the ones to decide on the Nobel Prize?"
"Hey, Jem, you'll be in trouble if your advisor sees what you've said, but I think you're not wrong this time."
"Speaking of which, I have a paper that's about to be published. I wonder if it could catch Dou Dou's attention and maybe I'd be picked as a candidate?"
"Haha, look, someone is daydreaming in broad daylight!"
"Wow, everyone go check the candidate interface on the Qiao Ze Award official website, Dou Dou has put up Qiao Ze's contribution points in mathematics, then released the calculation rules for the contribution points, a total of 13,000 points!"