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| Books LLC : Grace Murray Hopper Award Laureates: Steve Wozniak, Donald Knuth, Bjarne Stroustrup, Bill Joy, Raymond Kurzweil, Dan Bricklin, John Ousterhout | |
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Grace Murray Hopper Award Laureates: Steve Wozniak, Donald Knuth, Bjarne Stroustrup, Bill Joy, Raymond Kurzweil, Dan Bricklin, John Ousterhout |
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English |
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Paperback |
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124 |
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2010-05-03 |
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1155357868 |
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Books LLC |
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0.42 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.28 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Steve Wozniak, Donald Knuth, Bjarne Stroustrup, Bill Joy, Raymond Kurzweil, Dan Bricklin, John Ousterhout, Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Richard Stallman, W. Daniel Hillis, Robert Metcalfe, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Brian Reid, Shafi Goldwasser, Wen-Mei Hwu, Paul H. Cress, Roger Moore, Omer Reingold, Richard H. Lathwell, Lawrence M. Breed. Excerpt: Bill Joy William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy , is an American computer scientist . Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla , Scott McNealy , Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt , and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He is widely known for having written the essay "Why the future doesn't need us ", where he expresses deep concerns over the development of modern technologies. He has two children, Hayden and Maddie. Early career After growing up in suburban Detroit, Michigan , Joy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1979. Joy's PhD advisor was Bob Fabry . As a UC Berkeley graduate student, Joy worked for Fabry's Computer Systems Research Group CSRG in managing the BSD support and rollout where many claim he was largely responsible for managing the authorship of BSD UNIX , from which sprang many modern forms of UNIX, including FreeBSD , NetBSD , and OpenBSD . Apple Inc. has based much of the Mac OS X kernel and OS Services on the BSD technology. Some of his most notable contributions were the vi editor, NFS , and csh . Joy's prowess as a computer programmer is legendary, with an oft-told anecdote that he wrote the vi editor in a weekend. Joy denies this assertion. Eric Schmidt , CEO of Novell at the time, continued the mythopoesis during an interview in PBS 's docum...
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