Author: Erzi Congzhou

After a conversation, Li Leshan had a great understanding of Zhou Zhi's level, and he couldn't help but love talents: "Elbow, are you interested in working in my laboratory and studying for a master's degree in information engineering?"

If this invitation had been sent in the previous life, Zhou Zhi might have fainted from joy at this moment.

After all, a master's degree in information engineering from Yale University will be a well-known golden brand for at least the next twenty years.

But now that Zhou Zhi has improved his abilities and his horizons, he doesn't think that a master's degree from Yale is as good at all.

What's more, it's science.

Zhou Zhi is not surprised by Li Leshan's behavior of "transferring benefits". Xu Hui's parents are a typical example. For other families, sending their children to study abroad is extremely difficult, but for the old Xu family

To put it bluntly, it is about as difficult as sending your daughter to take an interest class at the Youth Palace.

Xu Hui’s mother is a famous coloratura soprano in China, but she is currently a visiting scholar in Europe and a visiting professor at the Paris School of Arts.

She has mentors all over Europe, and it is said that the mentor she found for Xu Hui was her roommate in a dormitory back then.

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

In the words of the roommate, Xu Hui is not only the love child of Xu's father and Xu's mother, but also the one his father bought in exchange for pigeon feed...

With such a friendship, the roommate, who is already a doctoral supervisor in the art department of the University of Brussels, can help his friend with his children, which is almost a matter of words.

By the same token, even if Zhou Zhi does not take the college entrance examination this year, given his current level, it would not be a difficult task to get a degree by working side by side with Mr. Gu.

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

Zhou Zhi could only smile and said: "I am actually majoring in liberal arts. To me, the large font library is more like creating a handy tool for my future. It is not my purpose in itself..."

Li Leshan: "..."

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

"There must be a large character library that can accommodate rare characters, so that there is a basis for organizing ancient books, and then the construction of the ancient books database can be carried out. As far as I can think of so far, this construction work should include automatic scanning and recognition, classification and archiving, and intelligent retrieval.

Tools, task release and acceptance modules, user discussion areas, paper release and scoring assessment systems, and even real-time communication tools, online classrooms and conference halls in the future."

"Each subsystem contains many details, and it is also a long-term project that needs to be gradually promoted. For example, the automatic scanning and recognition system can not only recognize the characters on ancient printed matter, but can even advance step by step to inscriptions on stele, bronze inscriptions, and oracle bone inscriptions.

Research."

"In the past, a large part of the research work on literature and history relied on scholars' extensive knowledge and diligent transcription and compilation, which was time-consuming, laborious, and boring."

"Once these tools are available, I believe it will be a very pleasant thing to mine and organize systematic information in the vast ancient book database."

This is true for many records in ancient times. For example, the deeds and writings of a famous person may be distributed among various works in the classics and history.

For example, the book "Collection of Su Dongpo's Anecdotes" quotes more than 1,110 Su Dongpo's anecdotes and refers to hundreds of ancient historical materials and notebooks.

This is just a record of Su Dongpo's "anecdotes" and does not include his collected works. If we add this, the "Complete Works of Su Wenzhonggong" collected by Mao Wei at the end of Guangming Dynasty has seventy-five volumes.

But even so, Mao Wei paid more attention to Su Dongpo's literary aspects and the strategies he left behind when he participated in 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 at all in the biography of Su Dongpo, the historian of the Song Dynasty. They may be scattered in other people's biographies, notes, and the emperor's daily lectures and daily notes.

Therefore, if it is completed only by the memory of scholars, even a person with a wealth of knowledge would not dare to say that his knowledge system has no blind spots and can take into account everything.

However, information systems can do it.

After hearing what Zhou Zhi said, Li Leshan's surprise not only did not diminish, but intensified: "Did you come up with all this? I remember that high school students in the mainland have very heavy academic tasks?"

This was a matter of which pot should not be opened, so Zhou Zhi had no choice but to talk to him: "Eh? Where are the others?"

Li Leshan looked at the time and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that the conversation lasted so long. They must not like to hear this. They are going to see the cultural relics, right?"

"Then let's go quickly." Li Qiyan is a major collector in Hong Kong. After today's visit, I don't know if I will have a chance next time. How can I enter the treasure mountain in vain? Even if I can't take it with me, I still have to see it to the full.

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

"But the alliance's system requires new members to be recommended by more than two old members, and there is still one missing."

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

"Those guys..." Li Leshan pondered for a while: "Our organization is very strange. Scholars are relatively aloof. If they are not familiar with you, they will not recommend you casually; but businessmen are... no business.

Damn it, I'm afraid they will ask for some benefits when the time comes."

"What concessions will be required?"

"It's generally 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 to use for free, but the ownership

The share proportion must be consistent with our contribution.”

"That's true." Li Leshan said: "But as a relatively weak party, sacrificing some interests and seeking cooperation opportunities is also a routine operation."

"I don't agree that we are a relatively weak party." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Professor Leshan, our country does still have a long way to catch up in information engineering technology, but this does not mean that we are completely lagging behind.

They all have their own unique advantages.”
Chapter completed!