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 disk-centric 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

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Friday, April 9th
11:30 AM
Auditorium 101, Luce Hall
(34 Hillhouse Avenue)

Reception after the talk in Watson Hall, 2nd floor atrium.

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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.

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