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...juggle for large projects, and only the likes of Richard Stallman and Bill Joy can master for enterprise-scale projects." Rick Wayne, Dr. Dobb's... Read more

20 January, 2011

Tales of the rising Sun

...McNealy joined Sun's other co-founders, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy, at a panel discussion at the Computer History Museum in Mountain... Read more

16 January, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Science fiction to become science fact?

Science fiction to become science fact? Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun, recently joined a major venture capital firm... Read more

1 April, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

Sun co-founder set to depart

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company. Joy... Read more

9 September, 2003 by Mike Ricciuti

Report: Keep hands out of nanotech

...called for a global moratorium on manufacturing nanomaterials, and Sun Microsystems founder Bill Joy famously warned that mankind must not unleash nanotechnology because it could... Read more

25 November, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Ray Kurzweil: Don't fear the nanofuture

...personalities. Most notably, he has been paired as the sunny optimist vs Bill Joy, the chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, who last year penned a... Read more

20 March, 2001 by Charles Cooper

Intelligent machines threaten humankind

...doesn't need us by cofounder of Sun Microsystems and esteemed technologist Bill Joy introduced a wider audience to the possibility that recent technological advances... Read more

23 January, 2001 by Will Knight

Wearable computers arrive at Internet World

...avoid the catastrophic future recently predicted by the founder of Sun Microsystems Bill Joy in Wired Magazine. In the article, Joy claimed that in the... Read more

23 May, 2000 by Will Knight

Sun's Joy rips Windows 2000

...was hard to miss the irony: Sun co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy spoke to a University of Washington (UW) computer science class just... Read more

6 May, 1999 by Mary Jo Foley

Sun pioneer an open-source killjoy?

...Microsystems began selling its first general-purpose Linux servers this week, but Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has... Read more

15 August, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Sun woos fans for open-source Jxta

...address designed to lure developers into Sun Microsystems' Jxta project, company founder Bill Joy spent Wednesday morning preaching the gospel of open-source peer-to... Read more

7 June, 2001 by John Borland

Meet Jxta, Sun's hope for ruling the P2P universe

Bill Joy chose to gift-wrap the latest brain dump from Sun Microsystems... Read more

21 February, 2001 by Charles Cooper

Inside the Linux arcana

...Perhaps starting with the contributions to Unix made by Sun co-founder Bill Joy before Sun even existed (going back to 1975), the histories of... Read more

17 March, 2004 by David Berlind
MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers

MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers

MetaRam has a chip that lets you put more memory into your server fairly cheaply — and it has a cavalcade of server celebrities behind it Read more

26 February, 2008 by Michael Kanellos
Scott McNealy still busy at Sun

Scott McNealy still busy at Sun

...retiring. McNealy, who co-founded Sun with Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy in 1982, grew the company to a peak market capitalisation of... Read more

18 October, 2007 by Marguerite Reardon

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