Name	Padmasree Warrior
Birth place	Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology DelhiCornell University
Employer	Cisco Systems, ()
Title	Chief Technology Officer
Boards	Joffrey BalletMuseum of Science and Industry
Spouse	Mohandas Warrior
Children	Karna Warrior

Padmasree Warrior is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Cisco Systems, () and the former CTO of Motorola, Inc. ().

Early life

Padmasree Warrior, originally a Malayali, was born and raised in the city of Vijayawada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India. She went to school at the Children’s Montessori School and Maris Stella College in Vijayawada. Warrior received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1982. She holds masters in chemical engineering from Cornell University and serves as an advisory board member at both schools.

Career

Padmasree Warrior joined Motorola in 1984, as one of only a few women in its Arizona facility and she served in a broad range of roles over the course of her twenty-three years at the company, eventually achieving the position of Chief Technology Officer in its Semiconductor Products Sector, which became Freescale Semiconductor. When named Motorola's CTO in January 2003, Warrior became Motorola’s first female executive and in 2005 she was promoted to executive vice president.

On December 4, 2007, she left Motorola to become CTO at Cisco Systems.

Recognition

Fortune Magazine called her one of four rising stars on its Most Powerful Women list, placing her between the 10 "highest paid" and the "Young and Powerful" categories. In 2005, The Economic Times ranked Warrior as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian. In 2001 she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman Magazine and her achievements were further recognized by American Immigration Law Foundation in 2003. In 2004, she was conferred with the Distinguished Alumni Award by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. During Warrior’s tenure as CTO, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by President George W. Bush.. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by New York's Polytechnic University.

Directorships

Padmasree serves on the boards of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and Museum of Science and Industry, the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Chicago Mayor’s Technology Council, Cornell University Engineering Council and advisory council of Indian Institute of Technology. She previously served on the Texas Governor's Council for Digital Economy, the Technology Advisory Council for the FCC and on the Advisory Committee for the Computing and Information Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is also serving as a mentor in the State Department’s International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Padmasree also served on the Board of Directors at Corning, New York based specialty glassware maker Corning Incorporated from 2005 through 2008.

Personal life

Padmasree Warrior is married to Mohandas Warrior, CEO of the Madison, Wisconsin-based company Alfalight. Their only son, Karna Warrior, currently attends the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora.

References

External links

First blog posting from Cisco

Cisco Hires Padmasree

Choices Narrowed for First U.S. CTO

Deadwood from Motorola

WITI Hall of Fame induction of Warrior

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Caption	William Nelson Joy
Birth date	November 08, 1954
Birth place	Farmington Hills, Michigan
Nationality	USA
Ethnicity	Swedish-American
Alma mater	University of Michigan University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Co-founder of Sun MicrosystemsJavaSPARCviNFScshBSD and Solaris"Why the future doesn't need us"
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William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He is widely known for having written the essay "Why the future doesn't need us", where he expresses deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.

Early career

Joy was born in the Detroit suburb Farmington Hills, Michigan to William Joy, a school vice-principal and counselor, and Ruth Joy. Joy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1979. Joy's PhD advisor was Bob Fabry.

As a UC Berkeley graduate student, Joy worked for Fabry's Computer Systems Research Group CSRG in managing the BSD support and rollout where many claim he was largely responsible for managing the authorship of BSD UNIX, from which sprang many modern forms of UNIX, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Apple Inc. has based much of the Mac OS X kernel and OS Services on the BSD technology.

Some of his most notable contributions were the vi editor, NFS, and csh. Joy's prowess as a computer programmer is legendary, with an oft-told anecdote that he wrote the vi editor in a weekend. Joy denies this assertion. Joy's accomplishments have been sometimes exaggerated; Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell at the time, inaccurately reported during an interview in PBS's documentary Nerds 2.0.1 that Joy had personally rewritten the BSD kernel in a weekend.

Sun

In 1982, Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems.

According to a Salon.com article, during the early 1980s DARPA had contracted the company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) to add TCP/IP to Berkeley UNIX. Joy had been instructed to plug BBN's stack into Berkeley Unix, but he refused to do so, as he had a low opinion of BBN's TCP/IP. So, Joy wrote his own high-performance TCP/IP stack. According to John Gage,

BBN had a big contract to implement TCP/IP, but their stuff didn't work, and Joy's grad student stuff worked. So they had this big meeting and this grad student in a T-shirt shows up, and they said, "How did you do this?" And Bill said, "It's very simple — you read the protocol and write the code."

Rob Gurwitz, who was working at BBN at the time, disputes this version of events.

In 1986, Joy was awarded a Grace Murray Hopper Award by the ACM for his work on the Berkeley UNIX Operating System.

Joy was also a primary figure in the development of the SPARC microprocessors, the Java programming language, Jini / JavaSpaces and JXTA.

On September 9, 2003 Sun announced that Bill Joy was leaving the company and that he "is taking time to consider his next move and has no definite plans".

Post-Sun activities

In 1999 Joy co-founded a venture capital firm, HighBAR Ventures, with two Sun colleagues: Andreas Bechtolsheim and Roy Thiele-Sardiña. In January 2005 he was named a partner in venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he has made investments in the green energy space. He has once said, "My method is to look at something that seems like a good idea and assume it's true".

Technology concerns

In 2000 Joy gained notoriety with the publication of his article in Wired Magazine, "Why the future doesn't need us", in which he declared, in what some have described as a "neo-Luddite" position, that he was convinced that growing advances in genetic engineering and nanotechnology would bring risks to humanity. He argued that intelligent robots would replace humanity, at the very least in intellectual and social dominance, in the relatively near future. He advocates a position of relinquishment of GNR (Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics) technologies, rather than going into an arms race between negative uses of the technology and defense against those negative uses (good nano-machines patrolling and defending against Grey Goo "bad" nano-machines).

A bar-room discussion of these technologies with inventor and technological-singularity thinker Ray Kurzweil started to set his thinking along this path. He states in his essay that during the conversation, he became surprised that other serious scientists were considering such possibilities likely, and even more astounded at what he felt was a lack of considerations of the contingencies. After bringing the subject up with a few more acquaintances, he states that he was further alarmed by what he felt was the fact that although many people considered these futures possible or probable, that very few of them shared as serious a concern for the dangers as he seemed to. This concern led to his in-depth examination of the issue and the positions of others in the scientific community on it, and eventually, to his current activities regarding it.

Despite this he is a venture capitalist, investing in GNR technology companies. He has also raised a specialty venture fund to address the dangers of Pandemic diseases, such as H5N1 Avian influenza and biological weapons. In 2006, he was awarded the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award for developing this biosafety venture fund and other actions.

References

External links

Bill Joy at Dropping Knowledge View Bill Joy's answers to the 100 questions at Dropping Knowledge's Table of Free Voices event in Berlin, 2006.

Big Picture TV Free video clips of Bill Joy

NerdTV interview (video, audio, and transcript available) - 30 June 2005

An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi

The Six Webs, 10 Years On - speech at MIT Emerging Technologies conference

Computer History Museum, 11-Jan-2006: Sun Founders Panel

Excerpts from a 1999 Linux Magazine interview regarding the development of vi

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