JAMES GOSLING “THE FATHER OF JAVA”
By: ROKIAH IBRAHIM 2011693802
JAMES GOSLING
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
James Arthur Gosling May 19, 1955 (AGE : 59) Calgary, Alberta, Canada famous software developer best known as “the father of the Java
programming language”
FAMILY
Mary Jane Voysey and James Edward Gosling Married on Saturday, February 24, 1883 in Peterborough, Ontario.
30 Most Influential People In Programming
#11. James Gosling A famous software developer, best
known as the father of the Java programming language.He also has a personal website and a page over at the Apple Science website.
http://www.jamesgosling.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Melon University, 1983
doctoral thesis was titled "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints".
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Carnegie Melon University, 1982
B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Calgary, 1977 While working towards his doctorate, he wrote a
version of emacs (gosmacs), and before joining Sun Microsystems he built a multi-processor version of Unix[1] while at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as several compilers and mail systems
EDUCATION
1984, Gosling has been with Sun Microsystems, and is generally known best as the founder of the Java programming language
inventor of the Java programming language in 1991 Elected to the United States National Academy of
Engineering. major contributions to several other software
systems, such as NeWS and Gosling Emacs. He also cowrote the "bundle" program, a utility
thoroughly detailed in Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike's book The Unix Programming Environment
ACHIEVEMENT
2002: he was awarded The Economist Innovation Award.
2007: he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada The Order is Canada's second highest civilian honor. Officers are the second highest grade within the Order.
2013: he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
James Gosling Achievement
Vision & mission
“it doesn't bloody matter what my vision is! that's one of the nice things with Java these days -- so much of it is controlled by the Java Community Process. “ James Gosling.
James Gosling quote
“I think everybody has a different answer for what Web services are.”
James’s new Inventors
Java creator Gosling leaves Google for robotics startup
James Gosling has left Google for startup Liquid Robotics after only five months on the job.
he's left the Googleplex to work for startup Liquid Robotics as chief software architect.
REFERENCES
Bellis, M. (2014, March 5). James Gosling - History of Java and James Gosling. About.com Inventors. Retrieved March 26, 2014, from http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/James_Gosling.htm
Roger, B. (2013, October 31). Show Notes. Java Spotlight Episode 150: James Gosling on Java (The Java Spotlight Podcast). Retrieved March 29, 2014, from https://blogs.oracle.com/javaspotlight/entr