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William Nelson Joy was born on November 8, 1954 in
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After graduating, he went to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 to pursue a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science.
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Bill Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003.
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Joy served as chief scientist at the company until 2003
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Joy was awarded a Grace Murray Hopper Award by the ACM for his work on the Berkeley UNIX Operating System.
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He wrote the 2000 essay Why The Future Doesn't Need Us, in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.
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