We are very delighted in Beijing to learn from Mr. Michael McNally, Program Director, Lemelson-MIT Prize, as he suggested further appropriate prizes for H. C. Tien, M.D., M.S. M.S. E.E., for his specific ground-breaking innovation in the field of Information Technology (IT), as offered by The Millennium Technology Prize 2006, Finland, Europe. This nomination is to recognize Dr. Tien’s unique contributions to global communications: Sinography Information Technology (SIT) to accelerate and build the Multilingual SuperHighway of the Information Revolution of 21^st Century.

In Lansing, Michigan, Mr. Chris Holman, Editor of Greater Lansing Business Journal, coordinated with the former Michigan Governor John Engler and First PRC Ambassador Chai Zemin to USA, to have successfully obtained Dr. Tien’s Lemelson-MIT nomination. We are all rightfully proud of his remarkable linguistic discovery of What’s on the Other Side of the Rosetta Stone and his life-long accomplishments in medicine, coding technology and the new field of his endeavors in psychophysics R&D for the synthesis of this IT.

We believe that because of his unique discovery, adding tireless endeavors and a persistent spirit, Chinese-English language technology will certainly achieve worldwide confirmations and multilingual applications.

Following global economy’s integration with accelerated development, China’s status in the world economy is becoming more and more important, in all kinds of international communications, Chinese-English translation technology becomes very necessary and furthermore holds broad market potential.

We hope to see as early as possible his TiENSTROKES® Information Technology (IT), its related invention with derived products, e.g. English/Chinese e-Convertor PDA will soon appear in the market, for business and for education. In China, CAS will also begin to publicize Dr. Tien’s nomination for his outstanding contributions.

Mr. Michael McNally, Program Director, further suggested the Lemelson-MIT nomination package be used to apply for recognition from other organizations in the USA, People’s Republic, and Europe, such as Draper Prize and Rolex Award. CAS will also look into a LuXun Literature Prize in PRC, to help accelerate East-West cultural interchanges, and recommend further prizes to recognize Dr. Tien and his life contributions. I will coordinate a similar CAS nomination committee for the Millennium Technology Prize in Beijing.

In Michigan, I understand Mr. Chris Holman, as Coordinator of Greater Lansing Lemelson-MIT Nomination Committee, earlier recognized Dr. Tien’s unique life work and personally recommended him to Lansing Small Business Association of Michigan Foundation, representing The Detroit News, Fifth Third Bank, Office of Intellectual Property, Michigan State University, Lansing Community College (LCC) Small Business Development Center, to adjudge his innovative technology. And for which, he won the First Michigan Innovation Award, 2003.

Mr. Holman has also suggested to members of Lansing Nomination Committee that we should inquire into the Nobel Prize Committee regarding the epoch-making nature of the linguistic discovery of the Tenstrokes Global Alphabet, to promote the peaceful rise of globalization. This new alphabet in linking Chinese characters to the Latin letters is an improbable event in psychophysics and has profound historical implications in technology for expanding world trade, multicultural interchanges, and global education. The time of this English ó Chinese Information Technology (IT) has come. Using Dr. Tien’s IT, I will also look into ways to inspire innovation and creativity among young people in China, where 100,000,000 Chinese students are learning English daily in school. In the words of Ambassador Chai Zemin "to help contribute toward the futuristic development of the world." The spirit of innovation may also live and inspire millions of young English-speaking students worldwide to learn Mandarin and Chinese characters, with Dr. Tien as an exemplary student and a creative tutor.

In 1999, CAS appointed an expert panel, headed Mr. Wang Lijian, Director, China Information Technology (IT) Standardization Commission, and 10 leading PRC IT specialists, to evaluate this report of unified processing of Chinese-English e-communications (Sinography).

It was clear to the panel that Sinography is especially valuable in alphabetic sorting and indexing of ideographic/graphic data for bilingual e-education and e-commerce. CAS panel foresaw the potential of Dr. Tien’s discovery and information technology R&D. On November 5, 1999, CAS issued a unique Certificate of Standardization on CCC’s Internet-Chinese language technology in Beijing.

Asian language users will now be able to send e-Sinographic communications with an incredible projected improvement in efficiency, accuracy and reliability. This new Chinese-English Sinographic™ e-communications standard will revolutionize e-communications and other e-applications using existing hardware or software for global e-mail, machine translation and multilingual information interchange on the Web.

On November 5, 2004, we introduced Dr. Tien, as our keynote speaker at the conference of China Association for Standardization, Beijing, China. CAS sponsored the 5th Anniversary on the ratification of Tenstrokes Pinxxiee IT for his topic, SINOGRAPHY: The Art & Science of Chinese-English e-Communications.

We support wholeheartedly all Greater Lansing Nomination Committee’s efforts on behalf of Dr. Tien. To focus for a moment from Beijing on behalf of CAS, I certify this nomination of Dr. Tien for the Millennium Technology Prize.