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Sun Microsystems Chief Scientist to Speak at NSFWilliam Joy, one of the computing industry's mostprominent leaders, will speak on Friday, May 5, at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia. Joy is the chief scientist of Sun Microsystems. The talk, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” is based on his recent guest column with the same title for Wired magazine. That commentary has prompted a debate over potentially negative consequences of nanotechnology. In 1986 Joy received the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award, which honors outstanding work done prior to age 30. In 1997 he was appointed to cochair the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). Joy is a 1999 co-recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian award for Innovation. The presentation is open to the public and is hosted by NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and by the Defense Advanced Research Products Agency's Information Technology Office. Users with RealPlayer software can view a live webcast at http://www.ngi-supernet.org/conferences.html.
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