Warren Buffet once said, "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." In the book The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell writes about Bill Joy who went to the University of Michigan and worked on one of the earliest parallel-processing supercomputers. After graduating he went to the University of California, Berkeley to pursue a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science. Bill Joy would eventually become a successful computer programmer. Malcom Gladwell writes about how Bill Joy would program whenever he had the chance and how much more time he was spending in the computer center than he was in his classroom. Bill Joy would eventually master programming computers. Like Bill Joy, Warren Buffett mastered his craft and became …show more content…
Joy excelled in mathematics and graduated from high school at age 16. While at Michigan, Bill Joy would spend about 8 to 10 hours a day programming. By the time he was at Berkeley he was programming all day and night. 10,000 hours was the amount of time he spent programming computers. The amount of time that Bill Joy spent programming computers would pay off. He quickly gained notice for helping to update the UNIX operating system that was running the school Digital Equipment Corporation computers. He would compile the improvements on computer tape and sell the copies for $50. In 1978 Bill Joy and his UNIX team received funding from the federal government to devise software for the VAX computer that would allow it to link to the ARPANET network, a precursor of the internet. His team beat DEC's own programmers in the bid to work for the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Projects Agency. In 1982, Bill Joy was recruited by entrepreneur Scott McNealy for a new start-up company that proposed to create a high-powered version of UNIX for a small cheap desktop computer workstation, or S.U.N for short, and the company eventually became Sun Microsystems. He designed the Sun's Network File System and codesigned SPARC microprocessor. In 1991 he designed the basic pipeline of the UltraSparc-I and its multimedia processing features. He drove the initial strategy for Java, codesigned Java processor architectures, and coauthored its programming language specifications, helping to create a new object-oriented programming language. Upon its1995 release, Java was almost immediately integrated into early versions of Netscape Navigator web browser. In 1997 U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton appointed Bill Joy cochairman of the Presidential information Technology Advisory Committee. The following year Joy was appointed Sun's chief technologist, and
“A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part” - Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave
Before he joined the ARM team, he was involved with Texas instruments, where he served for 11 years from 1983 to 1994. There, he dealt with applications as well as chip designs for microcontrollers, local area networks and analogue telephone devices. He also heavily contributed towards the company, where he was involved in the design of low power dialer chips as well as low system cost integrated analogue voice circuits for telephones. He also involved himself in designing PC modems and LAN adapter system designs. After that, he was responsible for marketing of IT semiconductor devices, which have the capability of being programmed after manufacturing in Europe (www.arm.com).
A genius is a person who is exceptionally intelligent or creative. One of the most famous geniuses of all time,Albert Einstein, had an IQ of 160. An individual who is considered a genius, has an IQ of 160 and up. Also mentioned in Gladwell’s book,Outliers:The Story of Success,is Christopher Langan. With an IQ of 195,Christopher Langan, is considered the smartest man in America.With such an exorbitant IQ, you would be under the impression that he attended the most prestigious university and is now exceedingly successful.However, that is not the case and in fact he is entirely the opposite. How did this happen? Well, the answer is uncomplicated and straightforward. The trouble with geniuses is not their intelligence,but
The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien, is an assortment of war stories set before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The stories are not written in chronological order, but rather a scattered remembering of events that occurred during O’Brien’s time during the war. When recalling certain memories, they tend to lead to other memories that develop into a story of their own. O’Brien will describe to the reader a death that occurs in the squadron and later will give more detail about that particular character. Ted Lavender’s character is an example of how O’Brien will tell his story. In the first story, the reader is informed of a death in the patrol, Ted Lavender, and later O’Brien describes him as a laid back person who took tranquilizers
Born in 1981 and hailing from Niagara Falls, Canada, even as a young kid, he was intrigued by computers and electronics, taking enjoyment in disassembling and rebuilding things such as toasters and televisions, which his grandmother would bring him to play with (Liss, 2011). He had an interest for computers, using his mothers work computer to practice coding and hacking.
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” This is a quote from the great Alan Turing. Turing became one of the most influential leaders in advancement for computer science, cryptology, and computer intelligence while also living a courageous life that fought through discrimination and inequality.
Joseph Licklider worked on a Cold War project called SAGE designed to create computer-based air defense systems against Soviet Union bombers. Lick became increasingly interested in computing thereafter. Coming to the world of computing from a psychology background gave Lick a unique perspective. Computing at the time consisted mainly of batch-processing operations. Large problems would be outlined in advance and operations coded onto paper punch cards that were then fed into computers in large batches.
George Stibitz constructed a 1-bit binary adder suing relays in 1937. This was one of the first binary computers. In the summer of 1941 Atanasoff and Berry completed a special purpose calculator for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, later called "ABC" ( Atanasoff Berry Computer). In 1948 Mark I was completed at Manchester University. It was the first to use stored programs. In 1951 whirlwind was the first real-time computer was built for the US Air Defense System.
As the main character of Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is obviously an important character. Although his physical characteristics are not described in detail, his emotional, social, and intellectual characteristics are well-defined. Throughout the story, Guy Montag undergoes many hardships, which shapes a completely new personality. By the end of the story, he has a new point of view that allows him to think and feel differently.
Then came Linus Benedict Torvalds. At the time he was a sophomore majoring in Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, his hobby also included computer programming. At 21 he found himself spending most of his time toying with computer systems, trying to see what he could do in order to push their limits and increase their functionality. The key missing in his tests was an operating system that had the flexibility craved for by professionals. MINIX was available, though it was still just a stu...
Watson, J. (2008). A history of computer operating systems (pp. 14-17). Ann Arbor, MI: Nimble Books.
My undergraduate preparation at the Computer Science of my University has given me a very substantial knowledge of the basic areas of Computer Science. Any amount of learning in Computer Science would be incomplete without hands on experience of Programming. In a world where...
Logic and Problem Solving: some people study Computer Science just because they feel that they could matter (fame) and think like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Michael Faraday, Bill Gate when they study Computer
Gates and Allen soon got many opportunities to prove their computer skills. In 1972, they started their own company called 'Traf-O-Data.' They developed a portable computer that allowed them t...
After my twelfth grade, the inherent ardor I held for Computer Sciencemotivated me to do a bachelors degree in Information Technology. Programming and Math, a paragon of logic and reasoning have always been my favorite subjects since childhood. I still vividly remember the time during my graduation,when I was successful in creating a simple calculator application as a class assignment.The joy I derived from creating something that is used by a lot of people to help them perform complex calculations,made me realize the power of computing in its true sense.It was also in my graduation that I developed an immense interest in programming languages such as Java, C++ an...