Wang Xuan (; February 5, 1937 – February 13, 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, was a Chinese computer scientist. He was a computer application specialist and innovator of the Chinese printing industry, as well as an academician at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the vice-president of the CPPCC and founder of the major technology conglomerate company

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in 1986.}

Biography

Wang Xuan graduated from the Department of

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and Mechanics at

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in 1958 and devoted himself to computer science education and research. He was mainly involved in research into computer processing of words,

graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture ...

and

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s. In 1975, he was in charge of the research and development of laser typesetting systems in the Chinese language and of

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systems. Surpassing

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's second-generation optical designation and the third-generation

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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".

Awards and honors

Wang Xuan was awarded the

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in 2001 by President Jiang Zemin. Started in 2000, this highest degree prize of science and technology in China, has only been awarded to 9 scientists by 2006. Asteroid 4913 Wangxuan, discovered at the

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in 1965, was named in his memory. The official was published by the

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on 24 November 2007 ().

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