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Bill Joy

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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 962,969 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Joy is the 131st most popular computer scientist (down from 111th in 2019), the 7,752nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,987th in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bill Joy ranks 131 out of 201. Before him are Phil Zimmermann, Shafi Goldwasser, Richard E. Stearns, Andy Rubin, Gary McKinnon, and Anita Borg. After him are Charles P. Thacker, Randy Pausch, Audrey Tang, Jaron Lanier, James Rumbaugh, and David Patterson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Bill Joy ranks 355. Before him are Slaviša Žungul, Jonas Kazlauskas, Ash Carter, Louise Erdrich, Michael Anthony, and Bob Menendez. After him are Paul Gallagher, Robert Van de Walle, Alex Salmond, Mark Herman, Huub Rothengatter, and Alberto Malesani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Joy ranks 7,752 out of 18,182. Before him are John Bray (1875), Derek Sherinian (1966), Harry Blanchard (1929), Helen Prejean (1939), James Drury (1934), and Holly Black (1971). After him are Roger Penske (1937), Ken Curtis (1916), Peter Jason (1944), Gailard Sartain (1946), John Billingsley (1960), and Ted Schroeder (1921).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Bill Joy ranks 78. Before him are Arthur Samuel (1901), Phil Zimmermann (1954), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Andy Rubin (1963), and Anita Borg (1949). After him are Charles P. Thacker (1943), Randy Pausch (1960), Jaron Lanier (1960), James Rumbaugh (1947), David Patterson (1947), and Robert Tarjan (1948).

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