Sun last week appointed Bill Joy, the brains behind some of Sun's more advanced initiatives including the Jini distributed computing system, to the position of chief scientist, the company said.
Formerly a vice president of research at Sun and one of the company's founders, Joy will now serve on the company's senior management committee and report directly to Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman, president and CEO. He will also be responsible for promoting Jini and Sun's Java programming language, and take a leading role in determining Sun's future technological direction, the company said in a statement.
Joy is a well-known figure among computer scientists. He took a leading role in developing Sun's standard-setting network file system, and helped determine the business and technical strategy for Java.
He came to Sun from the University of Calif. at Berkeley where he wrote Berkeley UNIX, an early example of an "open source" operating system which supported the TCP/IP protocol. He was recently appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as co-chair of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee.
Sun also said it has promoted Joseph Roebuck, formerly vice president of computer systems worldwide sales, to vice president of strategic sales. Frank Pinto will fill roebuck's position.
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