Whitfield Diffie, a winner of the 2015 Turing Award, is renowned as the Father of Modern Cryptography. He is appointed as the honorary dean of the first Hangzhou Turing Award Workstation on Nov 10 at the 14th Silicon Valley Salon hosted by the government of Hi-Tech District in Hangzhou. [Photo/zj.zjol.com.cn]

Whitfield Diffie, a winner of the 2015 Turing Award, was appointed as the honorary dean of the first Hangzhou Turing Award Workstation on Nov 10 at the 14th Silicon Valley Salon hosted by the government of Hi-Tech District in Hangzhou. Diffie is renowned as the Father of Modern Cryptography.

The workstation will work with the local government to promote the cooperation between foundations and the application of scientific achievements. 

The 14th Silicon Valley Salon is part of the ongoing Hangzhou International Human Resources Exchanges and Cooperation Conference, which started on Nov 9 and will run until Nov 24. 

More than 200 elites in different fields are participating in the event with their projects to explore investment opportunities from venture partners, as well as to negotiate cooperation opportunities with local firms and industrial parks. 

Over the past three quarters, Hi-Tech District or Binjiang District had introduced 27,839 professionals, a year-on-year increase of 3.85 percent. 

Among them, three are Nobel Prize or Turing Award winners and 1,216 are overseas high-level talents.

It is expected that the number of skilled workers introduced to work in the district will total 31,000 by the end of the year.