Chapter 979 Meeting
Hongsheng Building is a five-story modern building. It was built with donations from Hong Kong Island wealthy businessman Feng Hongsheng. Together with the digital center donated by IBM and Microsoft on the other side, it has become the largest computer department in Shu University. Take advantage of the cards.
The conditions inside the building are very good. Central air-conditioning is installed, which is still rare nowadays. Professors have their own modern and comfortable offices. The conference room is equipped with high-fidelity microphones, projection screens, and absolutely unique State-of-the-art video telephone equipment.
The host of the meeting was Mai Mingchuan, the head of the department, and his deputy was Director Wang of the Computing Center, Professor Li Hongjiang, the actual person in charge of the Hanwen Library, and a large group of science and engineering subordinates.
The only ones who came from the Chinese department were Gu Kailai and Zhou Zhi.
There were also representatives from Microsoft and the Unicode Consortium.
"We are all acquaintances, so I won't say more. Classmate Zhou Zhi kept his word and entered our Shu University with excellent results. It will be more convenient to do things in the future." Mai Mingchuan said: "We welcome you Come on.”
Everyone applauded.
“The tasks for this year’s project are still very heavy.” Mai Mingchuan said: “Moreover, the higher authorities and the Chinese Department have put forward new demands for us, which require a lot of energy. Today’s meeting will mainly focus on It is to discuss the packaging plan and the focus of the work in the next few months."
"We discussed this issue with Jiuzi," Gu Kailai said: "He put forward some new ideas for our current work. Opinions.”
"Oh?" Mai Mingchuan said: "How about we talk about it first?"
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Director Mai, Director Wang, Professor Li, representatives, teachers, seniors, Director Gu and I discussed it The recent work on the construction of Hanwen library has been reviewed. We have roughly understood the problems we are facing now.”
“At that time, we divided the Hanwen font library into three levels. At present, the final packaging of the first-level font library can be completed, so that It becomes part of the UNICODE code. ”
“But for the Han character library itself, the first-level font only accounts for less than one-third of all Chinese characters, and the traditional Chinese characters in the font library are currently only included in Taiwan. Island, contents of Hong Kong Island and New Island, for Chinese characters in Korean and Japanese have not yet been included. "
"In terms of fonts, the first-level font library is only designed with four types: regular script, official script, Song style, Hei type, and imitation Song style, apart from the seal script and Wei stele required by the Chinese department. , and did not start designing. ”
"The most urgent contradiction now is that the D-Day given to us by Microsoft is very urgent. The new font library must be delivered to Microsoft for use by WINNT. Since the product is not mature enough, we need to make some trade-offs, right?"< br>
“There are still many problems.” Li Hongjiang said: “But I have indeed seen the main contradiction.”
Zhou Zhi looked at the Microsoft representative: “Mr. McLean, Microsoft’s WINNT operating system Is there any extension plan for the launch date of the system? As far as I know, your operating system development has never been able to be launched on time as announced.”
McLean doesn’t mind Zhou Zhi’s outspokenness. , just shrugged: "Although what you said is indeed true, I have not received a notice from the headquarters yet."
"In other words, there is no possibility of extension for the delivery of our font?"
"I can fight for everyone," McLean said, "but for now, it's best for everyone to plan their work according to D-day." "Where's Professor Guojie?" Zhou Zhi asked Mai Mingchuan.
Li Guojie is in charge of SNIX, the Sugon supercomputing operating system. They also need a large font library, so they also have a team that is mainly responsible for verifying the results here. In fact, the main It's just free prostitution.
But Shu University has no choice, because in order to improve work efficiency, Zhou Zhi previously developed a text recognition system. This system can convert scanned image words into vector words used by the system through a series of processes. , there is no doubt that it can save a lot of manual labor.
But there is a problem, that is, it consumes a lot of computing resources and cannot be processed by several computers in Shuguang University. This part of the work must be completed by the Sugon supercomputer.
Although the ministries and commissions and the supercomputing center are quite suspected of bullying the smaller ones, after all, the design ideas and solutions were proposed by Shu University, and the supercomputing center is only responsible for calculating the results. However, aside from these words, this is not actually the case. One step less than Armstrong landing on the moon.
The liberal arts 863 project also has the qualification to use supercomputers, which can be regarded as opening a gap in the gap between liberal arts and science.
“Shuguang is amazing.” Speaking of this, Mai Mingchuan had to admit: “Although we have been given very little working time, the word collection work has been completed. At present, we have collected more than 70,000 Chinese characters have all been vectorized.”
“But the coding work is still done by Lao Li. If you don’t want to help, we have to do it ourselves.”
“This is easy to do,” Gu Kailai said, “I have written a computer algorithm based on my dictionary making method, which can convert the words in the “Chinese Dictionary”. The Chinese characters were automatically converted into codes according to the cataloging rules at the time. ”
"Really? It would be so convenient to have this!" Mai Mingchuan was overjoyed: "I suggested to the school to use special moves on the elbows, and you just push and block. To do the font, we need talents with both arts and sciences!"
"It's just that this set of rules only deals with " "The 50,000 characters in the Chinese Dictionary" Zhou Zhi said: "The first and second levels of the Hanwen Character Library are 70,000 characters, and the third and third levels are over 100,000. It still needs to be combined with the root and stroke recognition in the recognition system. Function, matching the pronunciation and strokes of the text, to code the vector words That's it."
"How long did it take to complete the coding of "Chinese Dictionary"?"
"When the vector characters are ready, collect the root words, refer to the pronunciation, and assign the code. " Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Actually, he moves very quickly. On the contrary, it takes more time to debug bugs and process some doubtful words that the system cannot determine.”
“It took me two days to complete the feasibility experiment, and it can be processed in five seconds on a personal computer. One word.”
"That will save you a lot of trouble!" Director Wang was surprised and delighted: "In this case, we will deliver the products on time before D day, so there should be no problem."
Mai Mingchuan now feels that Zhou Zhi is simply Hanwen's big character library The mascot of the project, the project will make great progress as soon as he comes. This baby I like to use my brain very much, and like to develop various programs to replace tedious work. From the earliest handwritten character library, to the root stroke analysis system, recognition system, conversion system, and now the automatic encoding system, I often use unreasonable methods. This approach opens up valuable paths for science students.
The people under Li Hongjiang’s team are indeed a little aggrieved. Now they have gradually understood the essence of this project, that is, it is indeed a liberal arts project. The design ideas, concepts, and methodologies are all based on the liberal arts. , only at the operational level can science students have room to intervene.
To put it bluntly, this is the difference between management and workers.
(End of this chapter)