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Bill Joy

1954 - Today

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William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while being a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Joy has received more than 1,029,731 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Bill Joy is the 125th most popular computer scientist (up from 131st in 2019), the 6,682nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,737th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bill Joy ranks 125 out of 245. Before him are Shafi Goldwasser, Robert Fano, Bram Moolenaar, Robert C. Martin, Jack Dongarra, and Arthur Samuel. After him are Andy Rubin, Phil Zimmermann, John L. Hennessy, Hal Finney, Jack Dorsey, and Sudha Murty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Bill Joy ranks 323. Before him are Cliff Martinez, Carine Roitfeld, Michel Camilo, Erwin Wurm, Bachendri Pal, and Gary L. Francione. After him are Patsy Reddy, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Malcolm Turnbull, Jaak Uudmäe, Ruslan Aushev, and Jens Galschiøt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Joy ranks 6,682 out of 20,380. Before him are Mark L. Lester (1946), Ira Murchison (1933), Irvin McDowell (1818), Jim Harrison (1937), Wendie Malick (1950), and Emmett Toppino (1909). After him are Melissa Rauch (1980), Roy Eldridge (1911), Joe R. Lansdale (1951), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Theresa Russell (1957), and James Worthy (1961).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Bill Joy ranks 73. Before him are Scott Fahlman (1948), Peter Norton (1943), Lynn Conway (1938), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Jack Dongarra (1950), and Arthur Samuel (1901). After him are Andy Rubin (1963), Phil Zimmermann (1954), John L. Hennessy (1952), Hal Finney (1956), Jack Dorsey (1976), and James Rumbaugh (1947).

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