King-Sun Fu (傅京孫) was the Chinese-American computing engineer who we should either thank or curse multiple times a day, his work having laid the foundations for today’s ubiquitous black and white miniature chessboards; the QR code.
King-Sun Fu（傅京孙）是一位华美计算工程师，我们应该每天多次感谢或诅咒他，他的工作为当今无处不在的黑白微型棋盘奠定了基础；二维码。
Born in Nanjing on 2 October, 1930, while our city was last capital of China, Fu crossed the Strait to enter into higher education, gaining a Bachelor of Science in 1953 from National Taiwan University.
1930年10月2日出生于南京，当我们的城市是中国最后一个首都时，傅渡过海峡进入高等教育，于1953年获得国立台湾大学理学学士学位。
Then he started travelling again, further east across the Pacific Ocean to Canada, to attend the University of Toronto where he qualified as a Master of Arts. Another change of country followed, but one just down the road, to where Fu gained his Ph.D. from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. That institution is today ranked 15 in the world.
然后，他又开始旅行，向东穿越太平洋前往加拿大，前往多伦多大学学习，在那里他获得了文学硕士学位。 随后又换了一次国家，但就在这条路上，Fu从伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校获得了博士学位。 该机构如今在全球排名第15位。
Also today, when we point our phone at a QR code, the device scans it to recognise and interpret the pattern, directing it to a place on the internet, be it a website, point on a map, Facebook page, etc. It may also just turn the QR code into a stream of text; an email address, SMS or phone number, for example.
同样在今天，当我们把手机指向二维码时，设备会扫描它以识别和解释模式，将其指向互联网上的一个地方，包括网站、指向地图、Facebook页面等。 它还可能只是将二维码变成文本流；例如电子邮件地址、短信或电话号码。
Such pattern recognition fascinated Fu, who became one of the key founders of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), serving as its first president.
这种模式识别让Fu着迷，他成为国际模式识别协会（IAPR）的关键创始人之一，担任其第一任主席。
In his honour of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu and beginning in 1988, the IAPR awards on a biennial basis the King-Sun Fu Prize in Fu’s memory and in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution in the field of pattern recognition.
为了纪念Fu King-Sun Fu教授，从1988年开始，IAPR每两年颁发一次King-Sun Fu奖，以纪念Fu，并表彰他在模式识别领域的杰出技术贡献。
The first King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to somewhat fittingly, Azriel Rosenfeld, with whom Fu had previously collaborated.
第一届King-Sun Fu奖于1988年颁发给Azriel Rosenfeld，他以前曾与Fu合作过。
Among his many titles, Fu was a Goss Distinguished Professor at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in West Lafayette, Indiana. That title’s moniker is provided by William Freeman Myrick Goss, the first Dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue University and a previous alumni of Fu’s for the honorary degree he earned from the University of Illinois back in 1904.
在他的众多头衔中，Fu是印第安纳州西拉斐特普渡大学电气与计算机工程学院的戈斯杰出教授。 该头衔的绰号是由威廉·弗里曼·米里克·戈斯（William Freeman Myrick Goss）提供的，他是普渡大学工程学院的第一任院长，也是傅的校友，他于1904年从伊利诺伊大学获得荣誉学位。
Fu was also a member of the then Academia Sinica, which went on to become the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Appropriately, the institution was founded in Fu’s birthplace, our very own Nanjing.
傅也是当时的中国科学院院士，该院后来成为中国科学院。 恰當地，該機構成立於傅的出生地，即我們自己的南京。
In 1978, Fu also served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the flagship journal in the field of artificial intelligence that is Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). As an author, from the late 1960s right up until just a few years before his death, Fu wrote a number of academic publications on the subject of pattern recognition.
1978年，Fu还担任人工智能领域旗舰期刊《模式分析和机器智能交易》（TPAMI）的第一任主编。 作为一名作家，从20世纪60年代末直到他去世前几年，Fu就模式识别主题撰写了许多学术出版物。
Bar codes, such as those on almost any product you buy, were one of the innovations brought about by the field of Computer Image Analysis, the quantitive characterisation of 2 or 3D images.
条形码，如您购买的几乎所有产品上的条形码，是计算机图像分析领域带来的创新之一，即2D或3D图像的定量表征。
The field, established in the mid 20th century, saw important contributions from Fu; together with research professor, the aforementioned Azriel Rosenfeld; and computer scientists, Dr. Herbert Freeman and Jack Elton Bresenham.
该领域成立于20世纪中叶，Fu、上述研究教授Azriel Rosenfeld以及计算机科学家Herbert Freeman博士和Jack Elton Bresenham做出了重要贡献。
Those barcodes led to the QR codes that dominate every facet of life in today’s China. Think of Fu the next time you scan. He passed away on 29 April, 1985, aged just 54.
这些条形码导致了控制当今中国生活的各个方面的二维码。 下次扫描时想想Fu。 他于1985年4月29日去世，年仅54岁。