A disabled Vietnam veteran, serving from 1966 to 1974, Bill wrote his first computer program during a high school field trip. His long and varied career included highly classified work as a defense contractor, inventing microcomputer blade computing in 1978, creating a fiber to the home network in 1999, and over a decade working as a contractor and employee for cell phone companies. Along the way he joined groups of atheist and agnostic philosophers and worked to counter hatreds from the early days of the atheist movement.