Bill Joy

Bill Joy (actually William Nelson Joy, born November 8, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American software developer.

He studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, as well as electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. There he worked from 1977 primary authors of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD ). For BSD Joy also developed the C shell and the vi editor.

Another of his major projects was the development of TCP / IP for which he is sometimes referred to as the " Edison of the Internet". After Bill Joy had founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems, he was there leading role in the development of technologies such as SPARC, Solaris ( SunOS ), Java and Jini. On 9 September 2003, he left Sun. In April 2000, Joy created a stir with his controversial article Why the future does not need us in Wired Magazine. It states in part: " The most important technologies of the 21st century - robots, genetic engineering and nanotechnology - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. "

He is still regarded as an icon of Silicon Valley and sits down again and again with the influence of technology on humanity and the possibilities and limits of the new economy apart.