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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.
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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...
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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 ...
Bill Joy is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who helped create BSD UNIX and co-founded Sun Microsystems. He is also a venture capitalist and a member of several academic and scientific institutions.
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Bill Joy is a technologist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems who explores the biggest questions facing humanity. He shares his concerns and insights on topics such as nanotech, education, environment and pandemic defense in his TED talk and articles.
