Bill Day is Director of Developer Products at Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc. (DRSI) where he helps drive adoption of DRSI's innovative approach to finding meaning inherent in human language. His focus is on the Synthesys Platform and enabling developers to succeed with Digital Reasoning technologies. Bill is also a contributor to Wired's GeekDad.com blog and Founder & Technical Guru of Day Web Development.
Bill has previously been up to his elbows in wireless technology while serving as Head of Technical Services & Consultancy for Forum Nokia in the Americas and before that as Staff Engineer & Chief Wireless Technology Evangelist for Sun Microsystems. He has spoken widely on software development as an Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Lecturer and has presented keynotes and technical sessions at major industry conferences including JavaOne, Software Development, and SIGGRAPH. While at Nokia and Sun, he taught Java and Wireless development as an extension instructor for the University of California Berkeley and his Java ME Archive, writing, and speaking helped drive Java ME adoption to hundreds of millions of devices and empowered thousands of developers to write applications for Java enabled cell phones and PDAs.
Prior to Nokia and Sun, Bill was a software engineer for SGI and held fellowships with the Honeywell Technology Center, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Bill earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and completed one year of graduate studies in Scientific Computation while a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota.
More information is available from Bill's site:
BillDay.com