History

In August 1974, Chinese government launched a key project – "Information Processing System for Chinese Characters (also known as "Project 748"), which included three sub projects "Intelligence Search Using Chinese Characters", "High-Quality Typesetting for Chinese Characters", and "Communication Using Chinese Characters". For that, a research team was summoned in Peking University for the project, which eventually evolved into ICST.
In 1976, Professor WANG Xuan and Professor CHEN Kunqiu took charge of "High-Quality Typesetting for Chinese Characters", after accomplishing a pilot research on font information compression and rapid restoration. In this project, Professor WANG Xuan was responsible for the overall design and development. He wisely abandoned second and third generation typesetting technologies and directly chose the fourth generation solution that had no mature products at that time.
On January 6 of 1983, ICST was formally established at Peking University, focusing on Chinese character information processing. In the same year, ICST successfully developed Huaguang II system – the first Chinese laser typesetting system.
In 1985, it was appraised as one of the "Top Ten China Scientific and Technological Achievements". Soon afterwards, it won the first prize of "NSTP Award".
In 1995, ICST cooperated with Founder Group to develop the "Founder Electronic Publication System", which later won another first prize of "NSTP Award", and ranked No. 1 in the "Top Ten China Scientific and Technological Achievements".
In 2001, Professor WANG Xuan won the "National Highest Science and Technology Award".
In 2006, the newspaper digital asset management system (cooperated with Founder Group) won the second prize of "NSTP Award".
In 2007, the digital audio and video control technology and application (cooperated with Founder Group) won the second prize of "NSTP Award".
In 2009, the digital copyright protection of digital book publication system won the second prize of "NSTP Award".
In 2019, Institute of Computer Science & Technology of Peking University (ICST) was renamed Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University (WICT).