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| Born | William Nelson Joy, November 8, 1954, Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (B.S.), University of California, Berkeley (M.S, 1979) |
| Academic advisors | Bob Fabry |
| Known for | BSD • vi • csh • chroot • TCP/IP driver • co-founder of Sun Microsystems • Java • SPARC • Solaris • NFS • Why The Future Doesn't Need Us |
| Notable awards | ACM 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) |
About Bill Joy
Computer Scientist Bill Joy was born on November 8, 1954 in Michigan, United States (He's 70 years old now).
He is most known for co-founding Sun Microsystems, a computer, software, and information technology corporation, as well as for developing the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix operating system and Unix's vi text editing application.
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Bill Joy before becoming famous
Bill Joy was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1954 is also the year of Horse (馬) in the Chinese Zodiac.
After graduating from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, he went on to the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue PhD degrees in both engineering and computer science.
Achievement of Bill Joy
Joy argues in his forceful Wired Magazine editorial,"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us", that the technology he and his colleagues worked so hard to develop is putting future generations at risk.
Bill Joy's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship
As the son of William and Ruth Joy, he grew up in a Detroit suburb.
Bill Joy on Social Media
Bill Joy Collabed with
Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in the early 1980s with Entrepreneur Vinod Khosla, Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy.
Bill Joy Income & Net worth
Bill Joy's income mainly comes from the work that created his reputation: a computer scientist. Information about his net worth in 2024 is being updated as soon as possible by allfamous.org, you can contact to tell us Net Worth of the Bill Joy.
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