Does anyone have information about James Gosling, the inventor of Java programming?

I need some information about James Gosling, who invented the Java programming language.


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Does anyone have information about James Gosling, the inventor of Java programming?
Dr. James Gosling , Ph.DJames Gosling, Ph.D (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.








Education and career


In 1977, James Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. In 1983, he earned a Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. While working towards his doctorate, Gosling created the original version of the Emacs text editor for UNIX (gosmacs), and before joining Sun Microsystems he built a multi-processor version of UNIX, as well as several compilers and mail systems.





Since 1984, Gosling has been with Sun Microsystems, and is generally known best as the father of the Java programming language. Gosling is currently (as of 2006) Sun's CTO of the developer product group.








Contributions


He is generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language in 1994. He did the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. For this achievement he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. He has also made major contributions to several other software systems, such as NeWS and Gosling Emacs. He also cowrote the bundle program that you learn to make a version of in Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike's book The Unix Programming Environment.
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