James Gosling,
Inventor of Java
Inventor of Java
James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the
University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received
a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. He is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
He has built satellite data acquisition systems,
a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems and window
managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text
editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a version of a text editor called Emacs for Unix systems. More recently he
has been the lead engineer for the Java/HotJava
system.