In Memoriam: Translation and Interpretation Pioneer Bill Wood

Bill Wood with Bill Weber
Bill Wood (left, with Wilhelm “Bill” Weber on the right) spent more than 40 years in the conference interpreting industry and designed several generations of sound isolation booths and dedicated simultaneous interpreting equipment, including installations still in use on the Middlebury Institute campus today.

Faculty members in the Middlebury Institute’s Translation and Interpretation program are mourning the recent passing of Bill Wood, described by Professor Barry Slaughter Olsen MACI ’99 as “one of the pioneers responsible for putting modern-day simultaneous interpreting on the map.”