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>From: Bob Dunne <robert.dunne@yale.edu>
>To: department-list <department-list@CS.YALE.EDU>,...<snip>
>Subject: Center for Internet Studies Talk
>
>The Center for Internet Studies is pleased to announce a talk by
>
>Bill Joy
>
>Chief Scientist & Co-Founder
>Sun Microsystems
>
>
>java and jini: towards reliable distributed computing
>
>the java programming language has been designed to aid the construction of
>reliable software applications. this talk will discuss the insights that led
>to java, and why java software is so much easier to write and more reliable
>than software written in c and c++.
>
>the talk will also focus on the transition from diskcentric to
network-centric
>computing and beyond to the age of pervasive and ubiquitous computing and
>discuss the role of wired and wireless networks in enabling this new age.
>
>highly recommended reading: the invisible computer, by don norman
>
>
>Friday, April 9th
>11:30 AM
>Auditorium 101, Luce Hall
>(34 Hillhouse Avenue)
>
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>Bill Joy is the technology visionary of Sun Microsystems, the company he
>founded in 1982. Widely recognized for his writing of Berkeley Unix and
>continuing work in that community, Joy's most recent work has been on the
Jini
>technology for networked computing devices using Java. During the last two
>years, he has led design investigations for the architecture of UltraSparc IV
>(he designed the original Sparc), driven the business and technical strategy
>for Java, co-designed the picoJava, microJava and the ultraJava processor
>architectures, co-authored the specification for the Java Programming
>Language, and co-designed the lexical scoping and reflection APIs for Java
>version 1.1.
>