Strength through Joy
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Bill Joy was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and later sold his stake in the company. He moved to Aspen, Colorado, where he has developed the Java software langauge, and has developed a technology called Jini. Jini could offer ease of use and reliability to consumers, qualities which tend to be lacking in PCs. Joy has a consistency of vision so that parts of his work fit together, and he is more than a brilliant engineer. He argues that consumers should not bear the weight of complex systems.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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Teatime
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The growth in popularity of the Internet has created a new industry for software developers. San Francisco-based Dimension x epitomizes the new class of software companies. Dimension uses the Java programming language to make animation tools that are used by companies that design Web sites.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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A gift of tongues
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The first language translating machines were developed in the 1930s, but until very recently computer translations were often unreliable and inaccurate. Now, Japanese researchers have developed sophisticated programs that can recognize idiomatic expressions and linguistic knowledge.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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