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Sun co-founder set to depart
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company. Bill will continue to be an inspiration to all innovators," Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive, said in a statement.
[September 9, 2003, 15:25]
Science fiction to become science fact?
News Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun, recently joined a major venture capital firm. When Bill Joy joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner earlier this year, it sounded at first like an odd coupling.
[April 1, 2005, 12:55]
Scott McNealy still busy at Sun
News We started out as an open-source company from the time that Bill Joy developed the Berkeley Unix software. McNealy, who co-founded Sun with Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy in 1982, grew the company to a peak market capitalisation of...
[October 18, 2007, 16:40]
Intelligent machines threaten humankind
News That is until an article published in Wired magazine early last year titled Why the future doesn't need us by cofounder of Sun Microsystems and esteemed technologist Bill Joy introduced a wider audience to the possibility that recent technological...
[January 23, 2001, 13:12]
Nanoethics review
Reviews It was dislike of the notion that human and artificial intelligence might merge to form some kind of augmented post-human that caused Bill Joy, then chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, to publish the essay Why the Future Doesn't Need Us in Wired...
[October 15, 2007, 12:39]
Sun woos fans for open-source Jxta
News In a JavaOne keynote 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-peer. In an effort to whip up enthusiasm and win new...
[June 7, 2001, 8:36]
Sun pioneer an open-source killjoy?
News Sun 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 voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings.
[August 15, 2002, 7:47]
Sun rallies hackers against Microsoft
News Saying they share a common enemy, Sun Microsystems' chief scientist Bill Joy told open source advocates that they must work together. Let's continue to find new ways to stand on each others' shoulders rather than stepping on each others' toes," Joy...
[August 25, 1999, 9:02]
Tales of the rising Sun
News 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 View, California, to reminisce about the server specialist's past and prognosticate about the...
[January 16, 2006, 12:10]
Comdex '99: The battle for the 'information appliance'
News Insults flew, particularly from Sun's founder Bill Joy who could not resist jabs at Microsoft's senior vice president of consumer strategy Craig Mundie. countered Joy, touting his company's Jini language.
[November 18, 1999, 10:56]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Prince Charles, whose previous forays into the scary world of science have included promoting coffee enemas and carrot juice as cancer therapies, has emerged triumphant from his cameo in "Shrek 2" to join unlikely comrade Bill Joy, ex-Sun tech...
[July 16, 2004, 17:50]
Report: Keep hands out of nanotech
News But the liberal ETC Group has 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 "destroy the biosphere on which all...
[November 25, 2002, 8:18]
Sun updates Java for geeks
News He and Sun Chief Scientist Bill Joy "got as close to physical violence as we've gotten," he said, because Joy wanted to slip Java for two or three years until Sun figured out generics. Sun Microsystems has acceded to developer requests and will...
[June 7, 2001, 8:41]
Hawking warns of AI world takeover
News His comments echo those of Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy who in March 2000 warned of the potential dangers in the computer technologies he helped create. In a Wired magazine article, Joy cautioned that the convergence of...
[September 3, 2001, 12:10]
US plans huge spend on nanotechnology
News But the liberal ETC Group has 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 "destroy the biosphere on which all...
[May 8, 2003, 9:28]
MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers
News Weber pointed out that Bill Joy is the Kleiner partner participating in the deal. Thus, three of Sun's four founders — Vinod Khosla, Bechtolsheim, and Joy — are investors. The San Jose, California-based company, which is just coming out of stealth...
[February 26, 2008, 11:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Stop Bugging Me Bill Windows XP, Genuine Ubuntu, and a Genuine Dell I think I'll invoice Bill. With joy, eradicate another copy of Windows 98 from the world. Here's how I spent my weekend. Go to parents, prepared to exterminate last copy of Windows...
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Wearable computers arrive at Internet World
News The claims may sound like the most outrageous marketing spin, but Lightman believes that co-evolution with machines will help humans avoid the catastrophic future recently predicted by the founder of Sun Microsystems Bill Joy in Wired Magazine.
[May 23, 2000, 8:26]
Tech visionary gets inventor prize
News He and Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, have been involved in a yearlong debate about the use and abuse of technology and its potential impact on civilization. In a piece he wrote a year ago, Joy outlined what he saw as the danger...
[April 26, 2001, 8:53]
Outrage at Gates' knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates, though he steals from the poor and weak and downtrodden for no other reason than that he has a psychopathic out of control male ego, and it gives him great joy in knowing that he can get away with it, because his enemies are too...
[March 2, 2005, 19:08]
