Bill Joy was born on November 8, 1954. He is an American computer engineer. He has a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. While a graduate student at Berkeley, he worked for Fabry's Computer Systems Research Group, on the Berkeley Software Distribution version of the Unix operating system. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist at the company until 2003. Bill Joy made a formula in 1983 called Joy's law stating that peak computer speed doubles each year and is given by a function of time.
S = 2^y - 1984 in which S is the peak computer speed attained during year Y. He played an important role in the early development of BSD UNIX while being a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the author of the vi text editor. Joy was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 for contributions to operating systems and networking software. He also wrote the essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", which he talked about deep concerns over the development of modern technologies. He was convinced that growing advances in genetic engineering and nanotechnology would cause problems for humanity. He argued that intelligent robots would replace humanity in the near future. He supports and promotes the idea of abandoning genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics technologies.
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