Bill Hall - MLM Associates, Inc.
Bill Hall has worked for many years as a developer and
consultant on Microsoft Windows and Win32 platforms with experience
going back to Windows 1.0, which he ported at the systems level to
AT&T/Olivetti computers. He has worked as an applications
developer throughout his computing career. In the early 1990's he
turned his attention to internationalization issues beginning with
his 1992 Microsoft Systems Journal article on Windows National
Language Support and his 1993 articles on Win32
internationalization. At that time, he developed version of Windows
3.1 that could operate in eight central European languages
including Czech and Slovak. Over the years he has taken a number of
products into European and Far East languages. He continues to
write on the engineering aspects of creating world-ready software
with most articles appearing in Multilingual Computing, where he
also serves on its editorial board. In past lives, Bill has been a military and civilian aviator, an
associate professor of mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh,
a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences Mathematical
Institute, and served for three years as an associate editor with
Mathematical Reviews. |