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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.
- William Nelson Joy, November 8, 1954 (age 68), Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.
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. He also collaborated on the Java programming language and the Jini networking system.
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Bill Joy: Co-founder of Sun Microsystems - Berkeley Engineering. Dubbed the “Edison of the Internet” by Fortune Magazine, Bill Joy is one of luminaries of tech. Years before personal computers were being widely used, he created software that would enable the rise of the modern internet.
Apr 2, 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 ...
TED Speaker. 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?
Aug 16, 2017 · Aug 16, 2017 6:45 AM. Bill Joy Finds the Jesus Battery. The green-tech guru is backing an energy storage breakthrough that could power the future. Courtesy of Bill Joy. As technology tries...
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