Summary

Chair, AIR Networks Intern Director, Democracy onAir

Interests:  Knowledge Networks, Catalyzing Innovation, Tech Entrepreneurship, Healthy and Sustainable Communities

My current focus has been on developing the AIR Knowledge Network System, a knowledge sharing platform with many unique features such as enabling authors to own and share their content across multiple public  and custom Hubs.

About

As a partner in one of the first futurist consulting firms, Joy explored commercial spin-off applications of NASA technology for Rockwell (1975-1976). Based on these studies, Joy assembled a team of engineers and marketers as Scienco (Scientific Entertainment Company) and successfully designed and developed, for the game and toy industry, some of the original consumer applications of the microprocessor (1976-1982). He has led the design and development of the first microprocessor-based computer for children (Smart Alec, 1978) and the the first Internet Cafe (The Planet, 1980).

In 1990, Joy founded TelePad corporation.  At TelePad, Joy led the design and development of the first multi-purpose, pen-based handheld and tablet-size computer and communications devices. Vertical applications included use in hospitals and nursing homes.  As Chairman and majority shareholder and CTO, he took TelePad public in 1994 raising over 25 million in the first year.

As founder and president of Roku Technologies (1996-2001), Joy pioneered the ...