Wang Xuan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the modern computer scientist. For the chancellor during the reign of Wu Zetian, see Wang Xuan (Second Zhou).

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Wang Xuan
Born	February 05, 1937 Jiangsu, China
Died	February 13, 2006
Nationality	People's Republic of China
Fields	Computer Scientist
Known for	Computer Science

Wang Xuan (simplified Chinese: 王选; traditional Chinese: 王選; pinyin: Wáng Xuǎn; February 5, 1937 - February 13, 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, innovator of the Chinese printing industry, was an academician at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is a well-known computer application specialist, who was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2001 by President of the People's Republic of China Jiang Zemin in Beijing. Started in 2000, this highest degee prize of science and technology in China, has only been awarded to 9 scientists by 2006. He was also the vice-president of the CPPCC.

Biography

Wang Xuan graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Peking University in 1958 and devoted himself to computer science education and research ever since. He was mainly involved in research into computer processing of words, graphics and images. Since 1975, he had been in charge of the research and development of laser typesetting systems in the Chinese language and of electronic publishing systems. Surpassing Japan's second-generation optical designation and the third-generation CRT designation, the fourth-generation laser typesetting system he invented has not yet come onto the market in other countries. Thus he is dubbed "the Father of Chinese Language Laser Typesetting".

Chinese Academy of Sciences

v t e Chinese Academy of Engineering

Ba Denian Cheng Chemin Du Qinghua Fu Zhihuan Thomas Huang Jiang Shaoji Jin Yilian Li Guohao Li Sanli Liu Yuanzhang Min Enze Ni Weidou Pan Jiazheng Pan Yunhe Qian Xuesen Shao Xianghua Sun Baoguo Sun Jinliang Wang Xuan Wang Yongzhi Wang Zhenyi Weng Shilie Xu Kuangdi Yuan Longping Zhang Guangdou Zhou Ji Zhu Guangya Zhuang Shonglin

Persondata
Name	Wang, Xuan
Alternative names
Short description	Chinese computer scientist
Date of birth	February 5, 1937
Place of birth	Jiangsu, China
Date of death	February 13, 2006
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.