Joy's talk, "The New Millenium: Technology and You," begins at 2:30 p.m. in Los Alamos' Administration Building Auditorium. The Director's Colloquium is free and open to the public.
Joy was the principal designer of the University of California-Berkeley's version of the UNIX™ operating system, whose networking protocols and implementations helped spawn the Internet. Called the forefather of the net by some, Joy in the 1970s took the basic [computer] language of the Internet and wrote a far more robust and efficient version.
Earlier this decade, Joy created Aspen Smallworks, Sun Microsystems' Colorado research and development lab. It was here that Joy and his staff started the Jini project, a revolutionary interconnection technology for networking computer devices.
Last year, Industry Week magazine selected the Jini project one of the 25 technologies of the year.
In 1997, President Clinton appointed Joy co-chairman of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee, which provides guidance and advice to the president on all areas of high performance computing, communications and information technologies to accelerate development and adoption of information technologies for the 21st century.
Earlier this year, Joy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He holds a lifetime achievement award from the USENIX Association and a Grace Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Joy has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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