人生在世因何事，當如飛鴻踏雪泥

美國華人博物館與華美人文學會11日下午聯合舉辦「悲欣路：何布基傳」新書發表會，書中記錄著電腦中文輸入法創始人之一何步基人生傳記，中文版由華美人文學會共同主席、著名翻譯家汪班依據英文版譯述，愛滋病雞尾酒療法發明人何大一也到場分享與父親相處的生活點滴，現場擠滿聽眾。
「他是江西一名地主之子，從大陸、台灣到美國，90年歲月，經歷戰亂與骨肉分離，憑著永不放棄的毅力和奮鬥精神，在無望中找到希望，在黑暗裡見到光明」汪班以充滿感情的口吻介紹了何步基的生平，也對何步基學無止境、不把生命浪費在負面而於事無補的生活態度感到欽佩。

該傳記是何步基一生從1919年到2009年在人間跋涉奮鬥的真實故事，他一生顛沛流離，與家人分隔兩地的相思之苦、種族歧視的不平等待遇、創立中文打字機被盜的無奈等，無論在順境或逆境中皆以無比的毅力應對，嚐盡酸甜苦辣的人生滋味。

「父親為求知而遠渡重洋，吃苦的精神成了我唸書榜樣」，何大一談起父親對自己的影響。他五歲時，父親便前往美國工讀，書信成了父子之間的溝通橋樑，父親在信件中看到他的成長，而他也在信件中看到父親老去，日後隨母親前往美國與父親重逢，那是一家人最開心的時光。

何大一說，父親於1960年開始鑽研電機工程，深感電腦沒有漢語系統，中國人無法使用，便潛心研發漢語拼音軟體和打字機。十年後，研發漢語拼音和四角號碼，眼看自己苦心創造的電子中文打字機被竊盜，曾讓他感到氣餒，不過他仍保持人性本善的處世觀念。

這位電腦中文輸入法創始人1978年帶著何大一回到中國老家，看到家人捱過苦日子、孩子未受良好教育感到非常心痛，何大一說，看到「感情內斂的父親流下眼淚」那一幕，至今仍讓他印象深刻。

對於翻譯何布基傳，汪班說：「最喜歡的就是何步基在台灣與妻子江雙如相遇、相戀的故事；最不喜歡的就是充滿學術專業的愛滋病來由和治療方法。」汪班的坦率令人不禁莞爾。他說，文稿翻譯大約花了半年時間，但是因求好心切而更改了72次，耗時一年終於完成，如今順利出版，在台灣獲得熱烈迴響。

「人生在世因何事，當如飛鴻踏雪泥」何大一以這兩句古詩描述了父親的一生，指父親以堅韌生命力與誠樸踏實的精神，走了一趟充滿歡喜與悲哀的人生之旅。



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David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS

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David Da-i Ho (traditional Chinese: 何大一; born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American[1] AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.


Background

Born in Taichung, Taiwan to Paul (an engineer) and Sonia Ho, from Jiangxi Province who fled to Taiwan from the Mainland in 1949, David Ho immigrated at the age of twelve to the United States with his mother and younger brother to unite with his father, who had already been in the US for nine years. He grew up in Los Angeles and received his bachelor of science in physics with highest honors from the California Institute of Technology (1974) and MD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (1978). Subsequently, he did his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at UCLA School of Medicine (1978–1982) and Massachusetts General Hospital (1982–1985), respectively. He was a resident in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1981 when he came into contact with some of the first reported cases of what was later identified as AIDS.
Living in Chappaqua, New York, Ho is married to artist Susan Kuo, with whom he has three children: Kathryn, Jonathan, and Jaclyn. He is a member of the Committee of 100, a Chinese American leadership organization, in addition to several scientific groups.

Research

Ho has been at the forefront of AIDS research for 26 years. He published over 350 papers, enabling the scientific community to understand the mechanism of HIV replication.[3] He championed the combination anti-retroviral therapy[4] which allowed the control of HIV replication in patients.[5] AIDS mortality has declined six times in developed countries since 1996, and international efforts are under way to bring the treatment to patients in the developing world.
Ho shifted his work from treating late in the illness to finding ways to fight the disease early on. Ho helped devise the HAART or highly active anti-retroviral therapy, which prescribes a cocktail of drugs to treat AIDS, on the theory that it would be more effective to combine powerful protease inhibitors with other HIV medications.
Ho』s research team is now working on developing vaccines for AIDS. He heads a consortium of organization in China and the U.S. to address the crisis of HIV/AIDS in China.

Honors and titles

Ho has received numerous honors and awards for his scientific accomplishments. He is the recipient of ten honorary doctorates, including from Swarthmore, Tufts, Columbia, Tulane, University of Natal, and Tsinghua University. He has been chosen as the commencement speaker at Caltech, MIT, and Harvard School of Public Health. Other accolades include the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, Mayor』s Award for Excellence in Science & Technology, the Squibb Award, and the Hoechst Marion Roussel Award. On January 8, 2001, Ho was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Clinton.

Ho is an honorary professor at Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Wuhan University, and Fudan University. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. He is a board member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation.

Ho was Time magazine's 1996 Man of the Year. Time later recalled the selection surprised both Ho and readers, with one reader calling Ho "Dr. David Who?"[6] The magazine acknowledged in 1996 that "Ho is not, to be sure, a household name. But some people make headlines while others make history."[6] Ho was even briefly mentioned when Alexander Fleming was considered for Person of the Century in 1999, since Fleming could be portrayed as representative of other scientists including Ho,[7] but the title ultimately went to Albert Einstein.
Ho has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Sinica, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy. He is currently the scientific director and chief executive officer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Irene Diamond Professor at the Rockefeller University in New York.

On 2006-12-06, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Ho into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

Quotes

"This is a problem for the world and therefore we're going to solve it."
"I began with an interest in this medical curiosity, never realizing that this was going to be a big health problem for the public. But, the scientific aspect was extremely interesting in that here we were looking at something that was transmissible, capable of destroying the immune system. That was new and one way or another the science behind that would shed light on bugs and on the immune system. So, I was gung-ho from day one of the epidemic."