2. Introduction
James Gosling born in May 19, 1955
James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, best
known as the father of the Java programming language
3. Education
S James Gosling received a Bachelor of Science from the
University of Calgary. (1973 -1977)
S MS. from Carnegie Mellon University. (1977-1983)
S Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. (1977-1983)
4. Career (1)
S Engineer at IBM (1983-1984).
S Gosling was with Sun Microsystems. (1984-2010) on
different positions. He left Sun Microsystems which had
recently been acquired by the Oracle Corporation. His
last designation was Vice President at Sun
Microsystems.
5. Career (2)
S On March 28, 2011, James Gosling announced on his
blog that he had been hired by Google.
S Five months later, he announced that he joined a startup
called Liquid Robotics.
6. Achievements
S Before joining Sun Microsystems he built a multi-
processor version of Unix at Carnegie Mellon University.
S Games Gosling also developed several compilers and
mail systems.
S James Gosling is Inventor of Java Programming
Language.
7. Honors
S 2002: he was awarded The Economist Innovation Award.
S 2002: he was awarded The Flame Award ,Lifetime
Achievement Award.
S 2007: he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
S 2015: awarded IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
8. Books
S The Java Language Specification (1996).
S The Java application programming interface (1996).
S The Java Programming Language (1996).
S Das Java API: Das Window Toolkit und Applets (1997)
S Java 2 Platform: Effective Java Program
S JavaTM
S The NeWS book , Careers in State and Local Government
