13 Facts About James Gosling

James Arthur Gosling was born on 19 May 1955 and is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.

James Gosling was born in Calgary, Alberta, to Joyce Morrison and Dave James Gosling.

James Gosling is of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Icelandic descent.

James Gosling wrote a version of Emacs called Gosling Emacs while working toward his doctorate.

James Gosling built a multi-processor version of Unix for a 16-way computer system while at Carnegie Mellon University, before joining Sun Microsystems.

James Gosling has two children, Katie and Kelsey, who are half siblings from his two marriages.

James Gosling was with Sun Microsystems between 1984 and 2010.

James Gosling is known as the father of the Java programming language.

James Gosling got the idea for the Java VM while writing a program to port software from a PERQ by translating Perq Q-Code to VAX assembler and emulating the hardware.

James Gosling is generally credited with having invented the Java programming language in 1994.

James Gosling created the original design of Java and implemented the language's original compiler and virtual machine.

James Gosling left Sun Microsystems on April 2,2010, after it was acquired by the Oracle Corporation, citing reductions in pay, status, and decision-making ability, along with change of role and ethical challenges.

James Gosling is an advisor at the Scala company Lightbend, Independent Director at Jelastic, and Strategic Advisor for Eucalyptus, and is a board member of DIRTT Environmental Solutions.