About Hồ Thành Việt
Lived 1955 – 2003 (aged 48). Hồ Thành Việt was a Vietnamese engineer.
Hồ Thành Việt (; 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.
He died on August 28, 2003, in Fountain Valley, California.
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Who was Hồ Thành Việt?
Vietnamese computer programmer (1955-2003)
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Hồ Thành Việt was born on 20 July 1955.
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Hồ Thành Việt died on 28 August 2003.
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Hồ Thành Việt was an engineer.
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Hồ Thành Việt was Vietnamese.
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