1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 104 Make a decision and then act
"Dong dong dong..."

Lu Yifan knocked on Principal Zhou's office door.

When he entered the room and saw President Liu of Tsinghua University was also present, he couldn't help but burst into laughter, "Ha, so both presidents are here, that's great, my students have an urgent matter, and I need your help..."

Principal Zhou and Principal Liu were also surprised. The two in front were discussing how to make some internal arrangements and how to protect this guy as best as possible!
I saw Lu Yifan actually came to me on his own initiative.

Both of them immediately put on airs.
"Student Lu, you've been on vacation for three days, and you didn't go shopping?"

"That's right. You are still young, you have to learn how to appreciate life. You can't just stay in the campus all day and waste your youth. You have to find time to have a passionate love affair. A life without love is incomplete. Xiao Lu, or Teacher Liu can introduce you to some pretty girls..."

Lu Yifan looked at the two of them in silence.
"Alright, alright, stop pretending you know nothing. Anyway, I've already made a promise. If you don't produce a perfect version of the Chinese character input method in a month, it will be embarrassing not only for me, the super cross-school student, but also for you two. Others will definitely scold you for being blind and choosing such an arrogant guy as a model student to train..."

Hearing him speak so unscrupulously, both Principal Zhou and Principal Liu were shocked.

Suddenly I was no longer in the mood to put on airs.

"Oh, you still know that you are arrogant?"

"Student Lu Yifan, you are always very smart, but why did you make a bet with someone and end up digging yourself into a hole? What were you thinking..."

Lu Yifan sneered.
“You dare to say such cruel words, I naturally have a plan in mind.

To be honest with you, during the past month's course study, I focused on collecting and reading all the computer-related books and materials in the libraries of our two schools.

Regarding the problem of Chinese character input method.

In fact, I have been thinking about solutions.

The bet with that opportunistic scoundrel in the scientific research circle named Liu was just a coincidence, and it just happened to take advantage of Liu..."

When the two principals heard this, they were very surprised.

"Xiao Lu, you, so you really have a mature plan?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, Old Liu, Old Liu, what did I say? This kid, when will he do something so stupid that he can't get off his feet..."

"Xiao Lu, this is too...too incredible for us!"

"That's true. Everyone thought you were young and hot-headed, and were just arguing for a short-term gain. I didn't expect that you had already planned everything out and had a mature plan in mind..."

"Xiao Lu, can you tell us about the framework of your plan first?"

"Yes, yes, yes. This will give us some idea of ​​what's going on. In this way, no matter what kind of resources you want to apply for, we can also consider and approve it..."

Lu Yifan smiled again with full confidence.
"Okay, then I will first give you two a brief introduction to the design framework of the program..."

"Actually!"

"The efficiency of Chinese character input and human-computer interaction has been improved, and there are many solutions!"

"For example, the Chinese character tablet input solution based on high-performance hardware support is the most intuitive and simple solution, but given the current computer hardware foundation, it is relatively difficult to implement in the short term, so I naturally PASSED this solution first!"

Principal Zhou and Principal Liu smiled at each other.

There is a way. This kid is really confident.

Let’s eliminate it right away. It is the simplest and most direct solution, but the most technically difficult to implement.

In fact, the concept of Chinese character writing board input must be based on high-performance hardware. As the principals of Yanqing Second School, they can naturally understand the meaning of this conceptual difference.

In other words, in the future, when computer hardware performance is improved, Chinese people can use a high-performance Chinese character writing tablet when operating a computer, which will be a perfect solution.

This shows that the requirements for the Chinese usage environment for computer products are not as exaggerated and harsh as described by Liu Chuanzi and others from the Institute of Computing Technology.

"Another more efficient and convenient way to input Chinese characters is undoubtedly voice intelligent associative input. That's right, when normal people speak, the computer will intelligently recognize the voice semantics. I believe that once such an input mode is developed and applied, you will wake up laughing in your dreams!"

"So voice intelligent associative input requires more powerful computer hardware as a basis, right?"

"Xiao Lu, please stop making promises to us. We just want to know, based on the current computing power of computer hardware, what kind of Chinese character input method are you going to design to solve the problem of human-computer interaction efficiency..."

The two principals are really not people who can be easily fooled.

Lu Yifan then stopped laying the groundwork and said directly:
"I naturally have a design for a perfect input method based on current computer hardware. I named it Double Pinyin and Double Shape. It is based on the combination of Chinese pinyin and glyphs. It can accurately achieve the effect of successfully inputting a Chinese character with a maximum of four keystrokes..." He began to explain the basic design framework to the two principals in person.

The so-called double-pinyin concept makes use of the combination of 23 initial consonants and 24 finals of Chinese pinyin, and rationalizes the key position definition according to the standard 101 keyboard layout. Each Chinese character can basically be split into two keystrokes to complete the basic phonetic spelling.

Of course, since there are a large number of Chinese characters with the same pronunciation but different characters, in order to achieve the final accurate typing positioning, it is necessary to add the subsequent glyph feature code combination.

This is the so-called concept of double-pinyin and double-form input method.

In this way, the basic application of efficient computer input of Chinese characters can be perfectly realized.

In fact, there is a more professional Chinese character input method.

That should undoubtedly be the "Wubi" solution.

By using the radicals of Chinese characters to decompose them, any Chinese character can be input accurately with up to 4 keys.

Even the person typing does not know how to pronounce the current Chinese character.

However, as long as you master the entire set of Wubi character decomposition principles and practice proficiently for a period of time, a skilled Chinese character typist can achieve an input speed of around 150 words per minute.

The 'double pinyin and double form' scheme.

To be honest, it is much easier to learn than the Wubi input method.

And once you have truly mastered it, the input speed is no slower than the Wubi input method.

But there is one thing that is not very friendly. For those who have not mastered Chinese pinyin well enough, it is really a bit of a congenital regional killer.

For example, a certain area where 'n' and 'l' are not distinguished.

For example, a certain area where 'w' and 'h' are not distinguished.

For example, a certain area where 'd' and 'j' are not distinguished.

For example, in a certain area where 'f' and 'h' are not distinguished...

The reason why Lu Yifan didn't come up with a Wubi character solution.

First of all, this solution requires too much energy and the coding workload is too daunting.

Secondly, according to the original timeline, the founder of this plan, Professor Wang Yongmin, should have already started researching this plan.

Another biggest reason is.

He knows better than anyone that the so-called advantage of native English speakers in the computer age is a joke of the century.

With the advent of the Internet, computer performance has continued to improve.

A series of new Chinese character input solutions beyond imagination, such as pinyin and short code input, will make the efficiency of information input in the Chinese environment far greater than the so-called advantage of being a native English speaker.

Originally!
Chinese characters are originally a dual system of sound and shape.

Looking around the world, it has always been the most efficient carrier of civilization inheritance.

For the same thing, among the five official languages ​​of the United Nations, Chinese is the most concise and efficient.

So, this is what he needs to do now.

The purpose is not to solve the problem of Chinese character input method efficiency thoroughly and perfectly.

Instead, we should use this seemingly child's play, the exaggerated fact that we were able to successfully come up with a solution in less than a month, to severely slap in the face those who always talk about the advantages of high-tech innovation and development of English-speaking mother tongue...

Xiangzhuang's sword dance is intended for Peigong.

That’s right, he was heading for Liu Chuanzi from the Computing Institute.

I will not stop until the Liu family is brought to ruin.

(End of this chapter)