This is an invention that refuses to give two bombs and one satellite. Any exaggerated praise is so pale and powerless in front of his achievements.
His name is Wang Xuan, who let China people say goodbye to lead and fire and welcome light and electricity. A tireless programmer, a name that is rarely mentioned again, will be particularly surprised when he returns to 40 years old. It has been 1000 years since Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, and people in China are still holding their signatures and taking pictures word by word. No way, Chinese characters can't enter the computer.
Some people even asserted that China people's Chinese characters would die out in the computer age, but no one expected that the world problems that scientists could not solve at this time were solved by a small teaching assistant at Peking University.
At this time, after ten years of catastrophe, Wang Xuan has been at home for 14 years, and even once wanted to commit suicide. At the age of 38, after three days and nights of thinking, Wang Xuan suddenly had an epiphany. In a computer with only 64kb, Wang chose the mathematical method of adding parameters to the outline, and there were still skyscrapers covered with all Chinese characters, which collapsed into a Rubik's cube in an instant. Anyone who has read his manuscript after his resurrection will feel how exquisite and extraordinary wisdom is hidden in this dense number. Later, he was appointed as the general manager of Chinese character precision phototypesetting system technology, but his eighty-one difficulty has just begun.
Few people believe that he can do it. Foreigners don't even understand the third generation imagesetter. A small teaching assistant must have a fourth-generation imagesetter. It's impossible. Wang Xuan is just a clever liar. In the following 18 years, from the project establishment to the last moment before success, cynical doubts and criticisms always accompanied him. Wang Xuan is too advanced. 18 years, he is too advanced. But the contribution of mankind may not be as good as that of my king. "He gave up all his holidays and divided them into three parts a day. 18 didn't rest. In his original words, "this 18 year is a narrow escape, even if you breathe a sigh of relief, you will not succeed."
Couples not only have to face bitter ridicule, but also face the encirclement and suppression of foreign big companies and the ultimatum of newspapers. Which is which? If you don't bite the bullet, everything you have worked hard for more than ten years will be zero and meaningless. Although hard, Wang Xuan enjoys it and is ambitious. He highly praised the saying: "If you devote yourself to science, you have no right to live like ordinary people." He will also have fun that ordinary people can't enjoy. He once swore to people that in three to five years, all foreign colleagues would never leave junior high school for a moment, even if others felt that they were overreached, it finally became a reality.
198 1 year, Wang Xuan's laser imagesetter was put on the market. At this time, foreign enterprises flocked to seize the China market. Miraculously, at this time, all foreign printing enterprises were driven out of China by Wang Xuan, and none of them stayed. In this world, where there is China publishing, there is the world of Wang Xuan imagesetter.
Some people will say that Wang Xuan has nothing to brag about except a typesetting machine. Let's just say that as long as you have read books and newspapers, you should thank him, calling it the greatest invention in the history of China, and you don't need to be modest. Wang Xuan, who achieved such explosive results, was unusually low-key He doesn't like that the father of laser typesetting of Chinese characters has become the title on business cards all his life, but only likes professor Wang Xuan.
He got all the prizes he deserved and donated them all, so it doesn't matter whether the credit is his or not. On February 3, 2006, the 69-year-old stubborn man failed to survive. At the last moment of his life, he could not speak. Wang Xuan, who never shed tears, watched his wife stay and finally inherited the strict order. This is not the 70-year-old life he planned for himself. He wants to play mahjong. At the age of 80, he also wanted to bask in the sun. At the age of 90, he wanted to stay in bed until 100 before hanging his photo on the wall.
After reading Wang Xuan's story, you will feel that every sentence in front of you immediately becomes soft because of her. Why are Chinese characters the most beautiful characters in the world? Because this silent brushstroke and painting, Xuan, hides a tender story in the motherland that they have never written for generations.
"I am full of confidence in the future of our country. In the middle of the 20th century, China eventually became a world power. I can make a little contribution to this in my lifetime and die without regret. The younger generation must
Go beyond the king's election and go to the world. "
-Wang Xuan's will