Birth Name:

Bill Joy

Male

Birth Date:

Mon, Nov 08, 1954

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

Age:

69

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

15°

Sco

46'

About Bill Joy

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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Bill Joy at TED

• Appearances on C-SPAN

• Bill Joy on IMDb

• An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi

• Bill Joy, video clips at Big Picture TV

• Excerpts from a 1999 Linux Magazine interview regarding the development of vi

• NerdTV interview (video, audio, and transcript available) - 30 June 2005

• The Six Webs, 10 Years On - speech at MIT Emerging Technologies conference, September 29, 2005

• Bill Joy at Dropping Knowledge, his answers to the 100 questions at Dropping Knowledge's Table of Free Voices event in Berlin, 2006.

• Computer History Museum, Sun Founders Panel, January 11, 2006

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Bill Joy

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Bill Joy: Sun 15 Scorpio, Moon 18 Aries, Mercury 28 Libra, Venus 26 Scorpio, Mars 12 Aquarius, Jupiter 29 Cancer, Saturn 12 Scorpio, Uranus 27 Cancer, Neptune 26 Libra, Pluto 26 Leo, Mercury Square Uranus, Mercury Conjunct Neptune, Sun Square Mars, Sun Conjunct Saturn, Mercury Square Jupiter, Mercury Sextile Pluto, Venus Trine Jupiter, Venus Trine Uranus, Venus Semi Sextile Neptune, Venus Square Pluto, Mars Square Saturn, Jupiter Conjunct Uranus, Jupiter Square Neptune, Uranus Square Neptune, Uranus Semi Sextile Pluto, Neptune Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Bill Joy: Living people, November 8 births, 1954 births, Michigan, American computer scientists, American electrical engineers, Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering, Internet pioneers, Futurologists, Open source advocates, University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni, Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates, American computer programmers, American venture capitalists, Wired (magazine) people, Computer systems researchers, Sun Microsystems people, UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni, People from Farmington Hills, BSD people, Unix people, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers people

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