Choices About us Contact us Site Map Terminology Presenters Feedback Localization Metrics Initiative			Bill Hall Bill Hall is an independent consultant and multifaceted internationalization specialist whose current focus on the globalization features of Microsoft .NET. Among other activities, he is writing a series of monographs about .NET for Multilingual magazine (http://multilingual.com/monographs), and has recently finished a series of papers on the new globalization features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 and beyond. His seminars draw on a wealth of knowledge that spans internationalization and localization issues in both contemporary development platforms as well as older Windows operating systems based on Win32 programming. Bill's romance with international programming began many years ago and is embedded in years of general programming experience gleaned at companies such as AT&T/Olivetti, Novell, NETCOM, SimulTrans, and eTranslate. He performed one of the first OEM ports of Windows to non-IBM based computers in 1986. In 1992, Bill envisioned making the English version of Windows 3.x function in the languages of Central Europe and released versions in the languages of Central Europe (Bill had been an NAS Exchange Scholar to Czechoslovakia during his University tenure and had become interested in Czech and related languages.) Combining his knowledge of Windows programming and the OEM layer, he was able to develop an extension that allowed both Windows 3.0 and 3.1 to work in eight Latin-based languages of Central Europe. From this, he gained a strong knowledge of the National Language Support features of Windows and over time he has extended this knowledge to Win32 systems and Microsoft .NET. He has five academic degrees including engineering and mathematics degrees from Bachelor's to Ph.D. at the University of Virginia (EE), Cambridge University (Maths), Brown University (Applied Mathematics), and the University of Michigan (Computer Engineering). In previous lives, Bill flew as a B-52 and B-58 crewmember, taught single-engine, multiengine, and instrument flying, and spent nearly 20 years as an academic teaching mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh and as a book editor (subject: differential equations) at Mathematical Reviews in Ann Arbor, Michigan. See seminars presented by Bill Hall
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