Riding the wind of rebirth

After some conversations, Li Leshan had a good understanding of Zhou Zhi's level, and his love for talent couldn't help but arouse: "Yuzi, are you interested in working in my laboratory and studying for a master's degree in information engineering?"

If this invitation came from the previous life, Zhou Zhi would probably faint with joy at this moment.

After all, Yale University's master's degree in information engineering will be a well-known golden sign for at least 20 years in the future.

But now Zhou Zhi's vision has also been improved with the improvement of his ability, and he doesn't feel that Yale's master's degree is as good as it is.

What's more, it's science.

Zhou Zhi is no stranger to Li Leshan's behavior of "transferring benefits". Xu Hui's parents are typical examples. To put it bluntly, it's about the same difficulty as sending your daughter to a hobby class at the Youth Palace.

Xu Hui's mother is a famous coloratura soprano in her country, but she is now a visiting scholar in Europe and a visiting professor at the Paris Academy of Arts.

Mentors and friends are all over Europe. It is said that the tutor Xu Hui found was a roommate in a dormitory back then.

When Xu Hui's father went to visit her mother, he would bring a bag of pigeon feed and hand it to her roommate when they arrived at the dormitory, and let her go to the roof to feed the pigeons for two hours.

In the words of that roommate, Xu Hui is not only the crystallization of Xu's father and Xu's mother's love, but also his father exchanged pigeon feed...

With such a friendship, the roommate who is already a doctoral supervisor of the Art Department of the University of Brussels, helping friends with children is almost a matter of one sentence.

In the same way, even if Zhou Zhi doesn't take this year's college entrance examination, with his current level, it's not too difficult to get a degree by working around Mr. Gu's side.

But people are like this, things that can be easily obtained are not very fragrant.

Zhou Zhi had no choice but to smirk and said, "I'm actually studying liberal arts. To me, the big font library is more like creating a handy tool for my future. It's not my goal in itself..."

Li Leshan: "..."

Seeing Li Leshan's shocked and speechless expression, Zhou Zhi had no choice but to explain patiently: "My major is ancient Chinese, and now I am also facing the need for digitalization. However, the biggest obstacle in this project is text entry."

"There must be a large font library that can accommodate rare characters, so that there is a basis for sorting ancient books, and then the construction of the ancient books database can be carried out. As far as I can think of, this construction work should include automatic scanning and identification, classification and archiving, and intelligent retrieval. Tools, task publishing and acceptance modules, user discussion areas, paper publishing and scoring and assessment systems, and even real-time communication tools, online classrooms and conference halls in the future.”

"Each subsystem contains a lot of details, and it is also a long-term project that needs to be promoted gradually. For example, the automatic scanning recognition system, in addition to recognizing the characters on ancient printed materials, can even be advanced step by step to stele rubbings, bronze inscriptions, oracle bone inscriptions. research."

"A large part of the previous literature and history research work relied on scholars' extensive knowledge and strong memorization, as well as tireless transcription and arrangement, which was time-consuming, laborious, and boring."

"When these tools are available, I believe it will be a very pleasant thing to dig out and organize systematic information in the vast database of ancient books."

This is true of many ancient records. For example, the deeds and writings of a famous person may be distributed in various works of the Classics and History Sub-collection.

For example, in the book "Compilation of Su Dongpo's Anecdotes", there are more than 100 and [-] anecdotes and anecdotes quoted by Su Dongpo, and hundreds of ancient historical materials and notes are referenced.

This is just a record of Su Dongpo's "anecdotes" and does not include his anthology. If this is added, the "Complete Works of Duke Su Wenzhong" collected by Mao Wei at the end of the Ming Dynasty would have as many as 75 volumes.

But even so, Mao Wei paid more attention to Su Dongpo's literary aspects and the theories he left when he took the scientific examination, but missed a large part of the official documents that Su Dongpo submitted to the court as a court official after he became an official.

Most of these things are not found in the original biography of Su Dongpo, the history of the Song Dynasty. They may be scattered in other people's biographies, notes, and the emperor's daily lectures and notes on daily life.

Therefore, relying solely on the memory of scholars, no matter how well-educated people are, they dare not say that there are no blind spots in their knowledge system, and they can take care of everything.

However, information systems can do it.

Hearing Zhou Zhi finish these words, Li Leshan's astonishment not only didn't decrease, but intensified: "You came up with all of these? I remember that high school students in the mainland have heavy academic tasks, don't they?"

This is a matter of which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted, so Zhou Zhi can only talk about him: "Eh? Where are the others?"

Li Leshan looked at the time and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to chat for so long, they must not like to hear these things, why don't you go to see the cultural relics?"

"Then let's go as well." Li Qiyan is a great collector in Hong Kong Island. After today's visit, I don't know if he will have the chance next time. How can he enter Baoshan empty-handed?

Li Leshan stopped Zhou Zhi: "We haven't finished our business yet. With your level, there is no problem at all to join the Unicode Alliance. I can also be your recommender."

"But the system of the alliance is that new members need to be recommended by more than two old members, which is one short."

"Ah?" Zhou Zhi didn't know about this before, but now he couldn't help feeling a little numb: "Then... what should I do? Can Professor Leshan help me find a familiar member as an introducer?"

"Those guys..." Li Leshan thought about it for a while: "Our organization is very strange. The scholars are relatively noble. If they are not familiar with you, they will not recommend you at will; but the businessmen... have no business. I'm afraid they will ask for some benefits at that time."

"What transfer will you ask for?"

"Generally it must be related to the agreement." Li Leshan said: "Patent use, even patent cooperation, and even patent transfer."

"If it involves the previous agreement framework, we can make some compromises in terms of use and cooperation." Zhou Zhi said: "But a completely unconditional transfer is impossible, even if it is authorized for free use, but the ownership The proportion must be in line with our contribution.”

"It's true to say that." Li Leshan said: "But as a relatively weak party, sacrificing some interests to seek cooperation opportunities is also a routine operation."

"I don't agree that we are relatively weak." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Professor Leshan, our country still has a long way to go to catch up in information engineering technology, but this does not mean that we are completely backward. Each has its own unique advantages.”

"Oh?" Li Leshan smiled, "I would like to hear more about it."