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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bill_JoyBill Joy - Wikipedia

    Bill Joy. 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. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while ...

  2. Bill Joy (born November 8, 1954, Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.) is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and cofounder of the computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems. Joy devised a version of the UNIX operating system , Berkeley UNIX, that used the TCP/IP networking language, which placed UNIX servers at the forefront of the Internet revolution and the open-source movement .

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  3. Feb 15, 2016 · Bill Joy (1954 – ) is an American computer scientist who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. His now famous Wired magazine essay, “ Why the future doesn’t need us,” (2000) sets forth his deep concerns over the development of modern technologies. [i]

  4. www.computerhistory.org › profile › bill-joyBill Joy - CHM

    Aug 5, 2024 · Bill Joy was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in 1954 and received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from UC Berkeley (1979). As a Berkeley graduate student, Joy was a seminal figure in the creation, support, and rollout of BSD UNIX, an open ...

  5. http://www.ted.com Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, educatio...

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  6. In 2003, Bill Joy left Sun Microsystems, the computer company he cofounded, with no definite plans. He'd spent the late 1970s and early 1980s working on Berkeley UNIX (he wrote the vi editor), and the next decades building beautiful high-performance workstations at Sun. Always, he'd been a kind of polite engineer-gadfly -- refusing to settle ...

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  8. The price of retaining the rule of law. is to limit the access to the great and kind of unbridled power. Thank you. (Applause) Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech.

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