Achim Ruopp Originally from Germany, Achim Ruopp's passion in life is adapting software to other languages. In 1997 Ruopp left Germany to work for Microsoft, where he focused on software localization and internationalization. After eight years, Ruopp decided to leave the software giant to go back to school. Read more »

Joshua Johanson Johanson is excited about working in this dynamic and growing field, and believes that voice recognition and machine translation will only become more common in the future. He says the field challenges him. "Every day is something new, and I get to use both sides of my brain, which is something I really enjoy." Read more »

Joshua Minor After finishing his undergraduate work in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College, CA, Joshua Minor applied to several linguistic Ph.D. programs. Despite being accepted to several of them, he chose not to pursue a higher degree. "I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go into academia." Read more »