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Bill Joy

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William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while being 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Joy is the 132nd most popular computer scientist (down from 125th in 2019), the 7,292nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,681st in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bill Joy ranks 132 out of 245. Before him are Ivar Jacobson, Karen Spärck Jones, Peter Norton, Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Abraham Lempel. After him are Robert Taylor, Christos Papadimitriou, Jack Dongarra, Andy Rubin, Paul G. Comba, and Anita Borg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Bill Joy ranks 330. Before him are E. Allen Emerson, Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle, Hideki Maeda, Hansi Hinterseer, Bob Rock, and Ellen von Unwerth. After him are Einar Már Guðmundsson, Hanif Kureishi, Guy Kawasaki, Annette Haven, Jo Gartner, and Jouko Törmänen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Joy ranks 7,294 out of 20,380. Before him are Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Henry Thomas (1971), Tom DiCillo (1953), Jack Conway (1887), Gary Ross (1956), and Victor Buono (1938). After him are Richard Portnow (1947), Shirley Horn (1934), George Nader (1921), Caleb Deschanel (1944), Thomas Ian Griffith (1962), and Anthony Downs (1930).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Bill Joy ranks 76. Before him are Eugene Garfield (1925), Gil Amelio (1943), David A. Huffman (1925), Peter Norton (1943), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), and E. Allen Emerson (1954). After him are Robert Taylor (1932), Jack Dongarra (1950), Andy Rubin (1963), Anita Borg (1949), James Rumbaugh (1947), and Jack Dorsey (1976).

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