Hồ Thành Việt

Hồ Thành Việt ({{langx|en|John Hồ}}; 1955–2003) was a Vietnamese-American computer engineer and entrepreneur who is credited with making desktop publishing more accessible to Vietnamese speakers.

Biography

Việt was born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, on July 20, 1955. He fled South Vietnam aboard a United States Navy ship on the same day that Saigon fell, leaving his family behind, and arrived in California unable to speak English. He graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering. After working at various computer companies, he founded VNI Software Company in 1987 and began working there full-time the following year. VNI was one of the first companies to market software designed for the Vietnamese language.{{cite news|title=Keeping Vietnam Language Alive Via Computer|first=Dean|last=Takahashi|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 22, 1993|accessdate=July 24, 2022|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-22-fi-486-story.html}}

He died on August 28, 2003, in Fountain Valley, California.

References

External links

[http://www.vnisoft.com/ VNI Software Co.]
[http://www.vnisoft.com/english/Actual.html Interviews Hồ Thành Việt], VNCR 2001.
[http://vietnamnet.vn/cntt/xalo/2003/11/214705/ Người phát minh bộ chữ Việt VNI trên máy điện toán], Vietnamese
[http://www.vnisoft.com/vietnamese/vncrvni.html Công ty VNI và những bước đi tới], 2001
[https://web.archive.org/web/20081005212026/http://www.usaluatsu.com/VNI.htm VNI vs. Microsoft Corporation], 1998

Category:1955 births

Category:2003 deaths

Category:American computer programmers

Category:California State University, Fullerton alumni

Category:Vietnamese emigrants to the United States

Category:Vietnamese community activists

Category:Vietnamese engineers

Category:20th-century American businesspeople

Category:20th-century American engineers

Category:People from Nha Trang

Category:People from Khánh Hòa province