| -[People] > Bill Joy |
| +[People] > Bill Joy, Chief Scientist and Corporate Executive Officer |
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| -http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html |
| +from : http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html |
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| +Bill Joy, 48, is Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems and has led Sun's technical strategy since the founding of the company in 1982. |
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| +He has been a leading designer of Sun's key technologies, including Solaris software, SPARC® microprocessors and Java technology. |
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| +Before co-founding Sun, Joy was the designer of the Berkeley version of the UNIX® operating system, which became the backbone of the Internet and pioneered the "open source" concept. |
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| +His many contributions were recognized by a cover story in Fortune Magazine, which called him the "Edison of the Internet." |
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| +Joy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has 44 patents issued or in progress. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. |
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| +[Sun Executive Perspectives of Bill Joy|http://www.sun.com/executives/perspectives/joy.html] |
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| +[Why the future doesn't need us|http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html] |