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What (who) is Bill Joy - definition

AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST

William N. Joy; William Nelson Joy; Joy's law (computing); Joy's Law (computing)

Bill Joy

William Joy

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 being a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.

Joy was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1999) for contributions to operating systems and networking software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy

Joy's law (computing)

In computing, Joy's law, first formulated by Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy in 1983, states that the peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy's_law_(computing)

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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 being a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.

Joy was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1999) for contributions to operating systems and networking software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill Joy

Examples of use of Bill Joy

1. Bill Joy and I had an op–ed piece in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago criticising the publication of the genome of the 1'18 avian virus on the web.

2. At the height of the dotcom boom, just as the world was entering into a giddy techno–frenzy, Bill Joy wrote a 24–page article in Wired ––– the magazine that best exemplified the positive, forward–looking zeitgeist ––– entitled "Why The Future Doesn‘t Need Us". It was a stark warning to all their readers: the technology they loved would soon destroy them.