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William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003.
May 8, 2024 · Bill Joy, American software developer, entrepreneur, and cofounder of the computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems. Joy devised a version of the UNIX operating system that placed UNIX servers at the forefront of the Internet revolution.
In 1982, Joy was brought into Sun Microsystems to build software for a cheap but powerful system, called the SUN workstation, to take UNIX beyond academia and make it available to industry. Six months later, Joy was made a co-founder of the company.
Nov 25, 2008 · Bill Joy: What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about. http://www.ted.com Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in...
Apr 1, 2000 · The 21st-century technologies—genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (GNR)—are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses. Most dangerously, for the first time ...
With Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, and Andreas Bectholsheim, Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems, one of the leading workstation and server companies of the 1980s and 1990s, and a key player in the Internet boom and development of the Web.
The co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy has, in recent years, turned his attention to the biggest questions facing humanity: Where are we going? What could go wrong? What's the next great thing?
