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Bill Joy
William Nelson Joy 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.
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Born 8 November 1954 · Q335047
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“Bill Maher: Trump is winning. I’m stick of winning”
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2011).
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Was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum for his work on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix system and the co-founding of Sun Microsystems
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2010· 1 entry
“You give us so much. But I would love a little less. Just try less.”
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2003· 1 entry
Sun announced Joy was leaving the company and that he "is taking time to consider his next move and has no definite plans"
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2000· 1 entry
Joy gained notoriety with the publication of his article in Wired magazine, "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he declared, in what some have described as a "neo-Luddite" position, that he was convinced that grow
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1999· 1 entry
Joy co-founded a venture capital firm, HighBAR Ventures, with two Sun colleagues, Andy Bechtolsheim and Roy Thiele-Sardiña
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1986).
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Joy was awarded a Grace Murray Hopper Award by the ACM for his work on the Berkeley UNIX Operating System
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1983· 1 entry
Also called Joy's law, stating that the peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time
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1982· 2 entries
Along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003
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After the firm had been going for six months, Joy, Sun's sixteenth employee, was brought in with full co-founder status at Sun Microsystems
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1980· 1 entry
Also wrote cat -v, about which Rob Pike and Brian W
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-11-08.
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