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James Gosling
Creating the original design of the Java programming language.
Gosling Emacs · NeWS
- Born
- 19 May 1955
- Birthplace
- Calgary, Canada
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James Gosling
James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist whose work helped software run across different kinds of computers.
Early life
Teenage computing
Worked on satellite-data software while still at school.
University
Studied at Calgary and earned a doctorate at Carnegie Mellon.
Career
- 1984
Sun Microsystems
Joined the company where he developed Java.
- 1995
Java launch
The language was publicly introduced.
- 2017
Amazon
Joined Amazon Web Services.
Contributions
Gosling Emacs
Created an influential text editor.
NeWS
Developed a programmable window system.
Java
Designed its early language, compiler and virtual machine with a Sun team.
Beyond the lab
Family
Has two daughters with his wife Judy.
Cooking
Enjoys cooking outside his work in software.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Further source ↗Additional context ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
Photo: Peter Campbell. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
