Bill Joy - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Bill Joy: Encyclopedia - Bill Joy
William Nelson Joy (born 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Joy: Encyclopedia Ii - Bill Joy - Sun
In 1983 he co-founded Sun Microsystems. There is a story about him: DARPA had contracted BBN to add TCP/IP, devised by Vinton Cerf and Bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution: Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution: Encyclopedia Ii - Berkeley Software Distribution - History
Berkeley Software Distribution - PDP-11 beginnings. The earliest distributions of Unix from Bell Labs in the 1970s included the source ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Early Life And Mathematical Career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ted Kaczynski was intellectually gifted as a child and known to be extremely shy and aloof. While an infant, K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution: Encyclopedia Ii - Berkeley Software Distribution - History
Berkeley Software Distribution - PDP-11 beginnings. The earliest distributions of Unix from Bell Labs in the 1970s included the source ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Early Life
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ted Kaczynski was intellectually gifted as a child and known to be extremely shy and aloof. While an infant, K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Intelligence: Encyclopedia - Collective Intelligence
Collective intelligence, as characterized by Tom Atlee, Douglas Engelbart, Cliff Joslyn, Francis Heylighen, Ron Dembo, and other theorist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wired Magazine: Encyclopedia - Wired Magazine
Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. It reports on how ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hacker: Encyclopedia - Hacker
Hacker is a term used to describe people who create and modify computer software and computer hardware. Hacker has multiple meanings. In ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unix Shell: Encyclopedia - Unix Shell
A Unix shell, also called "the command line", provides the traditional user interface for the Unix operating system. Users direct the ope...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unix: Encyclopedia - Unix
Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees includ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Michigan: Encyclopedia - University Of Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U-M, "U of M", or U-Mich) is a public coeducational university ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The Universi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vi: Encyclopedia - Vi
vi is a screen-oriented text editor computer program written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early BSD release. Vi - About vi. The name vi co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer: Encyclopedia - Computer
A computer is a machine capable of processing data according to a program — a list of instructions. The data to be processed may repres...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - In Prison
Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in ADX Florence, the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution: Encyclopedia Ii - Berkeley Software Distribution - Open Source Bsd Derivatives
The different open source BSD operating systems are targeted at an array of systems for different purposes and uses. BSD installations ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Bombings
The first mail bomb was sent in late May 1978 to Prof. Buckley Crist at Northwestern University. The package was found in a parking lot a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Manifesto
In 1995, Kaczynski mailed several letters, some to his former victims, outlining his goals and demanding that his 35,000-word paper Indus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution: Encyclopedia Ii - Berkeley Software Distribution - Technology
BSD pioneered many of the advances of modern computing. Berkeley's Unix was the first to include libraries supporting the Internet Protoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Bombings
The first mail bomb was sent in late May 1978 to Prof. Buckley Crist at Northwestern University. The package was found in a parking lot a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Life In Prison
Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in ADX Florence, the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Arrest And Trial
Kaczynski's younger brother David recognized Ted's writing style from the published manifesto and notified authorities. After a team of f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Manifesto
In 1995, Kaczynski mailed several letters, some to his former victims, outlining his goals and demanding that his 35,000-word paper Indus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Arrest And Trial
Kaczynski's younger brother David recognized Ted's writing style from the published manifesto and notified authorities, who sent officers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution: Encyclopedia Ii - Berkeley Software Distribution - Technology
BSD pioneered many of the advances of modern computing. Berkeley's Unix was the first to include libraries supporting the Internet Protoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - History
Some intellectual foundations of futures studies appeared in the mid-19th century. In 1997, Wendell Bell suggested that Comte's discussio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hacker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Hacker Culture - History
As the above implies, it was not always appropriate to speak of a single hacker culture. Before the computing world was as networked as i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hacker: Encyclopedia Ii - Hacker - Categories Of Hacker
The hacker community (the set of people who would describe themselves as hackers, or who would be described by others as hackers) falls i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - History
In 1866 the land which is now the Berkeley campus was first purchased by the private College of California (established by Congregational...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Gage: Encyclopedia Ii - John Gage - Career
Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Business School . He did ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Java Programming Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Java Programming Language - History
Java programming language - Early history. The Java platform and language began as an internal project at Sun Microsystems in December ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - History
In 1866 the land which is now the Berkeley campus was first purchased by the private College of California (established by Congregational...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Extinction: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Extinction - Perception Of Human Extinction Risk
The general level of fear about human extinction (in the near term) is very low. It is not an outcome considered by many as a credible ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Software Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Software Engineering Topics - Influence On Society
Software engineers affect society by creating applications. These applications produce value for users, and sometimes produce disasters. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - History
Some intellectual foundations of futures studies appeared in the mid-19th century. In 1997, Wendell Bell suggested that Comte's discussio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Outlook: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Outlook - Security Concerns
One of Microsoft's goals is for the email client to be easy to use. However, the embedded automation and lack of security features compar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Java Programming Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Java Programming Language - History
Java programming language - Early history. The Java platform and language began as an internal project at Sun Microsystems in December ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unix Shell: Encyclopedia Ii - Unix Shell - Unix Shells
Unix shell - Bourne shell compatible. Bourne shell (sh) Written by Steve Bourne, while at Bell Labs. First distributed with Version 7 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unix: Encyclopedia Ii - Unix - History
Unix - 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Labs, and General Electric worked on an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Singularity: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Singularity - History And Definitions
Though often thought to have originated in the last two decades of the 20th century, the idea of a technological singularity actually dat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Michigan: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Michigan - History
The University of Michigan was one of the nation's first public universities that was established in 1817 by the Michigan Territorial leg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of University Of Michigan People: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of University Of Michigan People - Alumni
List of University of Michigan people - Nobel laureates. Stanley Cohen PhD 1949, co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine for dis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wired Magazine: Encyclopedia Ii - Wired Magazine - History
The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe in 1993 with initial backing from software e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sun Microsystems: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Microsystems - Software
Sun Microsystems - Operating systems. All Sun systems have been based on Unix systems which are well known for system stability and a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - End Of Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - End Of Civilization - Future Scenarios
There are many scenarios that have been suggested that could happen in the future. Some are certain to happen and will almost certainly e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer - Digital Circuits
The conceptual design above could be implemented using a variety of different technologies. As previously mentioned, a stored program com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - History
In 1866 the land which is now the Berkeley campus was first purchased by the private College of California (established by Congregational...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ed: Encyclopedia Ii - Ed - Explanation Of The Example
Here we started with an empty file, and used a to append text (all ed commands are single letters). That put us into insert mode, which i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transhumanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Transhumanism - Criticisms
Criticisms of transhumanism can be divided into two main categories: those objecting to likelihood of transhumanist goals being achieved,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hacker: Encyclopedia Ii - Hacker - Categories Of Hacker
The hacker community (the set of people who would describe themselves as hackers, or who would be described by others as hackers) falls i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aspen Colorado: Encyclopedia Ii - Aspen Colorado - Description And History
The city sits along at the southeast (upper) end of the Roaring Fork Valley, along the Roaring Fork River, a tributary of the Colorado Ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Intelligence: Encyclopedia Ii - Collective Intelligence - Definition
Collective intelligence, as characterized by Tom Atlee, Douglas Engelbart, Cliff Joslyn, Francis Heylighen, Ron Dembo, and other theorist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - History
In 1866 the land which is now the Berkeley campus was first purchased by the private College of California (established by Congregational...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Singularity: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Singularity - The Desirability And Safety Of The Singularity
It is often speculated that advanced AI is likely to have goals inconsistent with those of humanity and may threaten humanity's existence...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vi: Encyclopedia Ii - Vi - About Vi
The name vi comes from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the command visual in ex. The command in question switches the line edit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Singularity: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Singularity - Kurzweil's Law Of Accelerating Returns
Some view the Singularity as a logical consequence of the evolution of society. Most famously, Ray Kurzweil justifies his belief in an em...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - Books
Futures studies - Publications. Forecasting Foresight [23] FutureOrientation [24] Future Survey Futures [25] Futures Research Quarterl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sun Microsystems: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Microsystems - Brief History
The initial design for Sun's UNIX workstation was conceived when the founders were graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - Futures Education
Education in the field of futures studies has taken place for some time. Beginning in the United States of America in the 1960s, it has s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Singularity: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Singularity - Organizations And Other Prominent Voices
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI, official site) is a nonprofit research think tank and public interest instit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Singularity: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Singularity - The Singularity In Fiction And Modern Culture
Fictional depictions of the Singularity usually fall into one of four categories: AIs and technologically augmented humans: Charles Stro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sun Microsystems: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Microsystems - Hardware
Sun originally used the Motorola 68000 CPU family for the Sun-1 through Sun-3 computer series. The Sun-1 employed a 68000 CPU, the Sun-2 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - Methodologies
Practitioners of the discipline previously concentrated on extrapolating present technological, economic or social trends, or on attempti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hacker: Encyclopedia Ii - Hacker - Recognized Hackers
Due to the overlapping nature of the hacker concept space, many of these individuals could be included in more than one category. See als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unix: Encyclopedia Ii - Unix - Free Unix-like Operating Systems
In 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU project, an ambitious effort to create a free software Unix-like system; "free" in that every...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer - Computer Applications
The first digital computers, with their large size and cost, mainly performed scientific calculations, often to support military objectiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer - History Of Computing
Originally, the term "computer" referred to a person who performed numerical calculations under the direction of a mathematician, possibl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aspen Colorado: Encyclopedia Ii - Aspen Colorado - Geography
Aspen is located at 39°11'32" North, 106°49'28" West (39.192297, -106.824470)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the cit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - Terminology
The discipline goes by different names, depending on the cultural context. Such names include future studies, foresight, futurism, futuro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sun Microsystems: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Microsystems - Notable Persons
Sun Microsystems - Founders. Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Joy Vinod Khosla Scott McNealy ... See also:Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aspen Colorado: Encyclopedia Ii - Aspen Colorado - Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 5,914 people, 2,903 households, and 1,082 families residing in the city. The population density is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - Futures Techniques
Main article: Futures techniques (abstracts) Futurists use a diverse range of forecasting methods including: Anticipatory thinking (futu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - Key Concepts
The term "futures" can denote the field of "Futures" Studies. It describes the field’s recognition that one person or group of persons ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sun Microsystems: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Microsystems - Present Focus
In 2004, in common with the trend of specialisation in the electronics industry, Sun cancelled two major processor projects which were em...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Futures Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Futures Studies - Scope
Academics predicting the relative wealth of nations or blocs in a generation's time may well class as futurists. However, Futures studies...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sun Microsystems: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Microsystems - The Bubble And Sun's Subsequent Struggle For Survival
During the dot-com bubble, Sun experienced dramatic growth in revenue, profits, share price, and expenses. Some part of this was due to g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Singularity: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Singularity - The Singularity In Fiction And Modern Culture
Fictional depictions of the Singularity usually fall into one of four categories: AIs and technologically augmented humans (often still ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Contributions To Computer Science
UC Berkeley has nurtured a number of key technologies associated with the early development of the Internet and the Open Source Software ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Sports And Traditions
UC Berkeley's sports teams compete in intercollegiate athletics as the California Golden Bears. They participate in the NCAA's Division I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Student Housing
UC Berkeley offers an array of housing options, accommodating a variety of personal and academic preferences and styles. Students have th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Student Groups
UC Berkeley's independent student-run newspaper is the Daily Californian. Founded in 1871, The Daily Cal became independent in 1971 after...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Organization
University of California Berkeley - Chancellors. The position of Chancellor was created in 1952 during the reorganization and expansion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - New Construction And Developments
Recent developments include the newly completed Jean Hargrove Music Library, the fourth free-standing music library to be constructed in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Student Groups
UC Berkeley has over 700 established student groups. Office of Student Life Homepage UC Berkeley's independent student-run newspaper is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Reputation And Academics
According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks 1st nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their field...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Campus Architecture And Architects
The campus is 1,232 acres (5 km²) in its entirety, though the main campus is on the western 178 acres (0.7 km²), crossed by two creeks ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Reputation And Academics
According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks 1st nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their field...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Campus Architecture And Architects
The campus is 1,232 acres (5 km²) in its entirety, though the main campus is on the western 178 acres (0.7 km²), crossed by two creeks ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Student Housing
UC Berkeley offers an array of housing options, accommodating a variety of personal and academic preferences and styles. Students have th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Student Groups
UC Berkeley has over 700 established student groups. Office of Student Life Homepage UC Berkeley's independent student-run newspaper is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Setting
The campus is 1,232 acres (5 km²) in its entirety, though the main campus is on the western 178 acres (0.7 km²). Located at a border be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Sports And Traditions
UC Berkeley's sports teams compete in intercollegiate athletics as the California Golden Bears. They participate in the NCAA's Division I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Contributions To Computer Science
UC Berkeley has nurtured a number of key technologies associated with the early development of the Internet and the Open Source Software ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - New Construction And Developments
Recent developments include the newly completed Jean Hargrove Music Library, the fourth free-standing music library to be constructed in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Library System
As of 2006, Berkeley’s library system has over 10 million volumes and 70,000 serial titles spread over 32 main, departmental, and affil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Organization
University of California Berkeley - Chancellors. The position of Chancellor was created in 1952 during the reorganization and expansion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Student Housing
UC Berkeley offers an array of housing options, accommodating a variety of personal and academic preferences and styles. Students have th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of California Berkeley: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of California Berkeley - Sports And Traditions
UC Berkeley's sports teams compete in intercollegiate athletics as the California Golden Bears. They participate in the NCAA's Division I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Java Programming Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Java Programming Language - Resources
Java programming language - Java Runtime Environment. The Java Runtime Environment or JRE is the software required to run any applicati...   » Read the article