Chapter 417

After greeting Stewart, Professor Hancock, and the others, Charlene took her seat at the front of the hall, right near the center aisle. Stewart joined her, while Vesta ended up in the second row.

As rising stars in the field, both Charlene and Stewart had been invited onstage to share their approaches to research and learning, hoping to inspire the students in the audience.

Once their talks wrapped up and the floor opened for discussion, it wasn't long before the leading experts in the room all gravitated toward Charlene and Stewart, eager to speak with them.

These were well-known scholars, each with their own specialty. Whether the conversation turned to convolutional neural networks, embodied intelligence, multimodal interaction, or some other cutting-edge topic, Charlene held her own with ease. She offered fresh perspectives and practical suggestions for thorny issues-like missing modalities or computational bottlenecks-that had been troubling even the most seasoned researchers. With every answer, the experts' eyes lit up, and it seemed they'd have happily talked with her all afternoon.

There were plenty of heavyweights in attendance, and it didn't take long for them to judge Charlene's capabilities. Just a few minutes in conversation, and her depth was obvious.

At one point, a scholar waiting his turn grumbled, "Alright, Sinclair, you've monopolized her long enough. It's my turn, isn't it?"

"Exactly! Let the rest of us have a chance. You can't keep her to yourself forever."

just have one more

exactly what you're going to ask: how to fix problems with scaling up applications. That could go on forever. By the time you're done, we'll all be

mind kept wandering to the front row. She found herself watching Charlene almost

come with her, nudged her gently. "Teague wants to

her reverie, Vesta smiled apologetically. "Sorry, Teague. I got a

laughed it off. "No

dove back into conversation with Teague, but Maureen-ever the perceptive mother-had already noticed that Vesta had seemed distracted for at least half an hour. She had a pretty good idea why. She'd caught bits of the chatter about Charlene, and she could

how the top experts were vying to

Teague moved on, Maureen glanced over at Charlene and leaned in. "What's going on?"

back and said, "Now I understand why Professor Mack and Professor Hancock spoke so highly of Charlene the other day. She really

clustered around

by reputation.

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