The scientist Bill Joy

Bill Joy

Living place: Michigan

Birthday: 8-11-1954 (70 years old)

Population of US 1954: 163,025,854

Global rank: #88407

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Who is The scientist Bill Joy?
Notable as co-founder of Sun Microsystems computer, software, and IT company, he is also best known as a developer of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix operating system and micro-text editors. Unix.
In her engaging Wired Magazine essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us," Joy argues that the very technology that he and his colleagues have worked tirelessly to develop are putting future generations of mankind are in peril.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, he completed graduate degrees in both engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Family life info

The son of William and Ruth Joy, he spent his childhood in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling The scientist Bill Joy?
In the early 1980s, Joy founded Sun Microsystems with Vinod Khosla, Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy.

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When was The scientist Bill Joy born?
Bill Joy birthday 8-11-1954 (at the age of 70).
Where is The scientist Bill Joy's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Bill Joy was born in Michigan, . is a The scientist, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Bill Joy's global rank is 88407 and whose rank is 695 in list of famous The scientist. Population of US in 1954 is about 163,025,854 persons.
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Events in 1954 and 8-11

Events in US in the birth year of Bill Joy

  • Army v. McCarthy inquiry (Apr. 22–June 17); Senate votes in Dec. to condemn Sen. McCarthy for misconduct.
  • In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka the Supreme Court unanimously bans racial segregation in public schools (May 17).

Birthday Bill Joy (8-11) in history

  • Day 8-11 year 1889: Montana became the 41st state.
  • Day 8-11 year 1892: Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House.
  • Day 8-11 year 1923: Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch.
  • Day 8-11 year 1960: John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States.
  • Day 8-11 year 1966: Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.
  • Day 8-11 year 1994: After a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority.
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