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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American computer engineer (born 1954)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote 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href="/wiki/Farmington_Hills,_Michigan" title="Farmington Hills, Michigan">Farmington Hills, Michigan</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> (BS)<br /> <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> (MS)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/BSD" class="mw-redirect" title="BSD">BSD</a> • <a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a> • <a href="/wiki/C_shell" title="C shell">csh</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chroot" title="Chroot">chroot</a> • <a href="/wiki/TCP/IP" class="mw-redirect" title="TCP/IP">TCP/IP</a> driver • co-founder of <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a> • <a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a> • <a href="/wiki/SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a> • <a href="/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">Solaris</a> • <a href="/wiki/Network_File_System" title="Network File System">NFS</a> • <i><a href="/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_Us" class="mw-redirect" title="Why The Future Doesn't Need Us">Why The Future Doesn't Need Us</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Murray_Hopper_Award" title="Grace Murray Hopper Award">ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award</a> (1986)</li> <li>Elected to <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a> (1999)</li> <li>Elected to <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> (1999)</li> <li>Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_History_Museum" title="Computer History Museum">Computer History Museum</a> (2011)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">Computer science</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Academic advisors</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Fabry" title="Bob Fabry">Bob Fabry</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Nelson Joy</b> (born November 8, 1954) is an American <a href="/wiki/Computer_engineer" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer engineer">computer engineer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Venture_capitalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Venture capitalist">venture capitalist</a>. He co-founded <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a> in 1982 along with <a href="/wiki/Scott_McNealy" title="Scott McNealy">Scott McNealy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vinod_Khosla" title="Vinod Khosla">Vinod Khosla</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a>, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003. </p><p>He played an integral role in the early development of <a href="/wiki/BSD_UNIX" class="mw-redirect" title="BSD UNIX">BSD UNIX</a> while being a graduate student at <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">Berkeley</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he is the original author of the <a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a> text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "<a href="/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_Us" class="mw-redirect" title="Why The Future Doesn't Need Us">Why The Future Doesn't Need Us</a>", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies. </p><p>Joy was elected a member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a> (1999) for contributions to operating systems and networking software.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Joy was born in the Detroit suburb of <a href="/wiki/Farmington_Hills,_Michigan" title="Farmington Hills, Michigan">Farmington Hills, Michigan</a>, to William Joy, a school vice-principal and counselor, and Ruth Joy. He earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">Bachelor of Science</a> in <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science">Master of Science</a> in <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While a graduate student at Berkeley, he worked for Fabry's Computer Systems Research Group <a href="/wiki/CSRG" class="mw-redirect" title="CSRG">CSRG</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution" title="Berkeley Software Distribution">Berkeley Software Distribution</a> (BSD) version of the <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> operating system. He initially worked on a <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)" title="Pascal (programming language)">Pascal</a> compiler left at Berkeley by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Thompson" title="Ken Thompson">Ken Thompson</a>, who had been visiting the university when Joy had just started his graduate work.<sup id="cite_ref-opensources_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-opensources-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He later moved on to improving the Unix <a href="/wiki/Kernel_(operating_system)" title="Kernel (operating system)">kernel</a>, and also handled BSD distributions.<sup id="cite_ref-opensources_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-opensources-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of his most notable contributions were the <a href="/wiki/Ex_(text_editor)" title="Ex (text editor)">ex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a> editors and the <a href="/wiki/C_shell" title="C shell">C shell</a>. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A few of his other accomplishments have also been sometimes exaggerated; <a href="/wiki/Eric_Schmidt" title="Eric Schmidt">Eric Schmidt</a>, CEO of <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a> at the time, inaccurately reported during an interview in <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a>'s documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Nerds_2.0.1" title="Nerds 2.0.1">Nerds 2.0.1</a></i> that Joy had personally rewritten the BSD kernel in a weekend.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1980, he also wrote <code>cat -v</code><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which <a href="/wiki/Rob_Pike" title="Rob Pike">Rob Pike</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_W._Kernighan" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian W. Kernighan">Brian W. Kernighan</a> wrote went against <a href="/wiki/Unix_philosophy" title="Unix philosophy">Unix philosophy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a <i><a href="/wiki/Salon_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon (website)">Salon</a></i> article, during the early 1980s, <a href="/wiki/DARPA" title="DARPA">DARPA</a> had contracted the company <a href="/wiki/BBN_Technologies" class="mw-redirect" title="BBN Technologies">Bolt, Beranek and Newman</a> (BBN) to add <a href="/wiki/TCP/IP" class="mw-redirect" title="TCP/IP">TCP/IP</a> to Berkeley UNIX. Joy had been instructed to plug BBN's stack into Berkeley Unix, but he refused to do so, as he had a low opinion of BBN's TCP/IP. So, Joy wrote his own high-performance TCP/IP stack. According to <a href="/wiki/John_Gage" title="John Gage">John Gage</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>BBN had a big contract to implement TCP/IP, but their stuff didn't work, and grad student Joy's stuff worked. So they had this big meeting and this grad student in a T-shirt shows up, and they said, "How did you do this?" And Bill said, "It's very simple — you read the protocol and write the code.</i><sup id="cite_ref-salon_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salon-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/John_Gage" title="John Gage">John Gage</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Rob Gurwitz, who was working at BBN at the time, disputes this version of events.<sup id="cite_ref-salon_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salon-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sun_Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sun Microsystems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1982, after the firm had been going for six months, Joy, Sun's sixteenth employee, was brought in with full co-founder status at <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Sun, Joy was an inspiration for the development of <a href="/wiki/Network_File_System" title="Network File System">NFS</a>, the <a href="/wiki/SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a> microprocessors,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java programming language</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jini" title="Jini">Jini</a>/<a href="/wiki/JavaSpaces" class="mw-redirect" title="JavaSpaces">JavaSpaces</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/JXTA" title="JXTA">JXTA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1986, Joy was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Grace_Murray_Hopper_Award" title="Grace Murray Hopper Award">Grace Murray Hopper Award</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">ACM</a> for his work on the Berkeley UNIX Operating System.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 9, 2003, Sun announced Joy was leaving the company and that he "is taking time to consider his next move and has no definite plans".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-Sun_activities">Post-Sun activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-Sun activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1999, Joy co-founded a venture capital firm, HighBAR Ventures, with two Sun colleagues, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a> and Roy Thiele-Sardiña. In January 2005 he was named a partner in venture capital firm <a href="/wiki/Kleiner_Perkins" title="Kleiner Perkins">Kleiner Perkins</a>. There, Joy has made several investments in green energy industries, even though he does not have any credentials in the field.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He once said, "My method is to look at something that seems like a good idea and assume it's true".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, he was inducted as a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_History_Museum" title="Computer History Museum">Computer History Museum</a> for his work on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix system and the co-founding of Sun Microsystems.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technology_concerns">Technology concerns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Technology concerns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2000, Joy gained notoriety with the publication of his article in <i><a href="/wiki/Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a></i> magazine, "<a href="/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_Us" class="mw-redirect" title="Why The Future Doesn't Need Us">Why The Future Doesn't Need Us</a>", in which he declared, in what some have described as a "<a href="/wiki/Neo-Luddite" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Luddite">neo-Luddite</a>" position,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that he was convinced that growing advances in <a href="/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering">genetic engineering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nanotechnology" title="Nanotechnology">nanotechnology</a> would bring <a href="/wiki/Existential_risk" class="mw-redirect" title="Existential risk">risks</a> to humanity. He argued that intelligent <a href="/wiki/Robot" title="Robot">robots</a> would replace humanity, at the very least in intellectual and social dominance, in the relatively near future. He supports and promotes the idea of abandonment of GNR (<a href="/wiki/Genetics" title="Genetics">genetics</a>, nanotechnology, and <a href="/wiki/Robotics" title="Robotics">robotics</a>) technologies, instead of going into an <a href="/wiki/Arms_race" title="Arms race">arms race</a> between negative uses of the technology and defense against those negative uses (good nano-machines patrolling and defending against <a href="/wiki/Grey_goo" class="mw-redirect" title="Grey goo">Grey goo</a> "bad" nano-machines). This stance of broad relinquishment was criticized by technologists such as <a href="/wiki/Technological_singularity" title="Technological singularity">technological-singularity</a> thinker <a href="/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil" title="Ray Kurzweil">Ray Kurzweil</a>, who instead advocates fine-grained relinquishment and ethical guidelines.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-globeandmail_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globeandmail-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joy was also criticized by <i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Spectator" title="The American Spectator">The American Spectator</a></i>, which characterized Joy's essay as a (possibly unwitting) rationale for <a href="/wiki/Statism" title="Statism">statism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-globeandmail_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globeandmail-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A bar-room discussion of these technologies with <a href="/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil" title="Ray Kurzweil">Ray Kurzweil</a> started to set Joy's thinking along this path. He states in his essay that during the conversation, he became surprised that other serious scientists were considering such possibilities likely, and even more astounded at what he felt was a lack of consideration of the contingencies. After bringing the subject up with a few more acquaintances, he states that he was further alarmed by what he felt was that although many people considered these futures possible or probable, that very few of them shared as serious a concern for the dangers as he seemed to. This concern led to his in-depth examination of the issue and the positions of others in the scientific community on it, and eventually, to his current activities regarding it. </p><p>Despite this, he is a <a href="/wiki/Venture_capital" title="Venture capital">venture capitalist</a>, investing in <abbr title="genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics">GNR</abbr> technology companies.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has also raised a specialty venture fund to address the dangers of pandemic diseases, such as the H5N1 <a href="/wiki/Avian_influenza" title="Avian influenza">avian influenza</a> and biological weapons. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Joy's_law"><span id="Joy.27s_law"></span>Joy's law</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Joy's law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Of_management">Of management</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Of management"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(management)" title="Joy's law (management)">Joy's law (management)</a></div> <p>In his 2013 book <i>Makers</i>, author <a href="/wiki/Chris_Anderson_(writer)" title="Chris Anderson (writer)">Chris Anderson</a> credited Joy with establishing "Joy's law" based on a quip: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else [other than you]."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His argument was that companies use an inefficient process by not hiring the best employees, only those they are able to hire. His "law" was a continuation of <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" title="Friedrich Hayek">Friedrich Hayek</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Society" title="The Use of Knowledge in Society">The Use of Knowledge in Society</a>" and warned that the competition outside of a company would always have the potential to be greater than the company itself.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Of_computing">Of computing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Of computing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Moore%27s_law" title="Moore's law">Moore's law</a></div> <p>Joy devised a formula in 1983, also called <i>Joy's law</i>, stating that the peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle S=2^{Y-1984},}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>S</mi> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mn>2</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>Y</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mn>1984</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mo>,</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle S=2^{Y-1984},}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/2a5a4fbdf865b857e7951facd39378a0779b2b8c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:12.46ex; height:3.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle S=2^{Y-1984},}"></span></dd></dl> <p>in which <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">S</span> is the peak computer speed attained during year <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">Y</span>, expressed in <a href="/wiki/Million_Instructions_Per_Second" class="mw-redirect" title="Million Instructions Per Second">MIPS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Joy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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title="Donald Knuth">Knuth</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_H._Dirksen" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul H. 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Shortliffe">Shortliffe</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil" title="Ray Kurzweil">Kurzweil</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Wozniak" title="Steve Wozniak">Wozniak</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe" title="Robert Metcalfe">Metcalfe</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_S._Bricklin" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel S. Bricklin">Bricklin</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)" title="Brian Reid (computer scientist)">Reid</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dan_Ingalls" title="Dan Ingalls">Ingalls</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cordell_Green" title="Cordell Green">Green</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Joy</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Ousterhout" title="John Ousterhout">Ousterhout</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr." title="Guy L. Steele Jr.">Steele</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Danny_Hillis" title="Danny Hillis">Hillis</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Stallman" title="Richard Stallman">Stallman</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Feng-hsiung_Hsu" title="Feng-hsiung Hsu">Hsu</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup" title="Bjarne Stroustrup">Stroustrup</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shafi_Goldwasser" title="Shafi Goldwasser">Goldwasser</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wen-mei_Hwu" title="Wen-mei Hwu">Hwu</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lydia_Kavraki" title="Lydia Kavraki">Kavraki</a> (2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Necula" title="George Necula">Necula</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ramakrishnan_Srikant" title="Ramakrishnan Srikant">Srikant</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_W._Keckler" title="Stephen W. Keckler">Keckler</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Rexford" title="Jennifer Rexford">Rexford</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Omer_Reingold" title="Omer Reingold">Reingold</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dan_Klein" title="Dan Klein">Klein</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vern_Paxson" title="Vern Paxson">Paxson</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dawson_Engler" title="Dawson Engler">Engler</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tim_Roughgarden" title="Tim Roughgarden">Roughgarden</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Craig_Gentry_(computer_scientist)" title="Craig Gentry (computer scientist)">Gentry</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn" title="Luis von Ahn">Ahn</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Casado" title="Martin Casado">Casado</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dina_Katabi" title="Dina Katabi">Katabi</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Felipe_Felzenszwalb" title="Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb">Felzenszwalb</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Ratnasamy" title="Sylvia Ratnasamy">Ratnasamy</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brent_Waters" title="Brent Waters">Waters</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Heer" title="Jeffrey Heer">Heer</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Amanda_Randles" title="Amanda Randles">Randles</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Constantinos_Daskalakis" title="Constantinos Daskalakis">Daskalakis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_J._Freedman" title="Michael J. Freedman">Freedman</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Maria-Florina_Balcan" title="Maria-Florina Balcan">Balcan</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyamnath_Gollakota&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shyamnath Gollakota (page does not exist)">Gollakota</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raluca_Ada_Popa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raluca Ada Popa (page does not exist)">Popa</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Alizadeh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammad Alizadeh (page does not exist)">Alizadeh</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prateek_Mittal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prateek Mittal (page does not exist)">Mittal</a> (2023)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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