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who was William Nelson joy

Answer 1

William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while 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.

Bill Joy

Joy at Japan Dinner Davos 2003

BornWilliam Nelson Joy
November 8, 1954 (age 63)
Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.NationalityUSAAlma materUniversity of Michigan(B.S.)
University of California, Berkeley(M.S., 1979)Known forBSD • vi • csh • chroot • TCP/IPdriver • co-founder of Sun Microsystems • Java • SPARC • Solaris • NFS • "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"AwardsACM Grace Murray Hopper Award(1986)Elected to National Academy of Engineering (1999)Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences(1999)Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2011)Scientific careerFieldsComputer scienceAcademic advisorsBob Fabry

Answer 2

William Nelson joy is an American Technologist, Computer Scientist and futurist.He is co founder and chief scientist of Sun Microsystems.