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Bill Joy
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- Bill Joy (William Nelson Joy, 1954-) is a computer scientist who is credited with developing significant advances in software, programming languages, and operating systems that continue to influence the field of computing, many made while he was a student at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in 1979. Since 2000, however, he has become best known for popularizing K. Eric Drexler's 1986 “Grey Goo” scenario of molecular nanobots that destroy the earth in an essay he wrote for Wired magazine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society; Joy, Bill]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Bill_Joy
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