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Famous Nerds #20 (cont)

Bill Joy

   
  • Developer of BSD Unix (as grad student, late 70's)
  • Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (1982)
  • Chief Scientist at Sun (1982 - 2003)
    • SunOS,   NFS,   SPARC,   Java,   Jini, etc.
  • Co-chair U.S. Presidential IT Advisory Committee
  • Winner of ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
  • Left Silicon Valley for Aspen,CO in mid 90's
  • Author of provocative article in Wired (April 2000)
    "Why the future doesn't need us?"
  • Since 2003, Venture Capitalist