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Bill Joy, actually William Nelson Joy, (* 8 November 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is an US-American software developer and future researcher.
It studied electro-technology at the University OF Michigan and electro-technology and computer science at the university of California in Berkeley. There it participated starting from 1977 considerably to the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). BSD forms today still the roots of many Unix derivatives, why Bill Joy can be called also joint founders of Unix. For BSD Joy developed also C Shell and the editor vi.
A further of its important projects was the advancement of TCP/IP, because of which he is sometimes called "Edison OF the Internet". After Bill Joy had based 1982 together with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim Sun Microsystems, he was there responsible with the development of technologies such as SPARC, Solaris (SunOS), Java and Jini. In addition Joy is considered as a father of the open SOURCE thought. On 9 September 2003 it left Sun.Im April 2000 excited Joy attention with its disputed article "Why the future doesn"´t need US" in the Wired of magazines (see Related links). Therein it means among other things: "The most important technologies 21. Century - robots, genetic engineering and nano-technology - threaten humans to one of becoming extinct threatened kind to make."
It is considered still as icon silicone Valley and argues again and again of the Economy new with the influence of the technology on mankind as well as the possibilities and borders that.
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