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Hồ Thành Việt ( en, John Hồ; 1955–2003) was a
Vietnamese-American Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese ...
computer engineer and entrepreneur who is credited with making
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more accessible to
Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia ** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam. * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overse ...
speakers.


Biography

Việt was born in
Nha Trang Nha Trang ( or ; ) is a coastal city and capital of Khánh Hòa Province, on the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is bounded on the north by Ninh Hòa District, Ninh Hoà town, on the south by Cam Ranh city and on the west by Diên Khánh Distri ...
,
South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
, on July 20, 1955. He fled South Vietnam aboard a
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ship on the same day that Saigon fell, leaving his family behind, and arrived in
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unable to speak English. He graduated from
California State University, Fullerton California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public university in Fullerton, California. With a total enrollment of more than 41,000, it has the largest student body of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) ...
, 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
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.


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VNI Software Co.


VNCR 2001.
Người phát minh bộ chữ Việt VNI trên máy điện toán
Vietnamese

2001

1998 1955 births 2003 deaths American computer programmers California State University, Fullerton alumni Vietnamese emigrants to the United States Vietnamese community activists Vietnamese engineers 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American engineers People from Nha Trang {{vietnam-bio-stub