James Gosling

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James Gosling in summer 2005 at JavaOne

James Gosling (born May 19, 1955 in Calgary , Alberta , Canada ) is one of the forefathers of the object-oriented and platform-independent programming language Java . He also invented the NeWS window system and the Gosling Emacs and was one of the developers of the Star Seven microcomputer .

Life

He graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1977 and received his Ph.D. 1983 from Carnegie Mellon University . The title of his dissertation is Algebraic Constraints .

From 1984 to April 2010, James Gosling was employed by Sun Microsystems and from 2005 was the CTO of the product development group.

On April 2, 2010, James Gosling left Sun Microsystems (now acquired by Oracle ). He worked at Google for a few months before working as chief software architect for a small Californian company.

James Gosling has been working as a Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services since May 2017 .

Awards

In 2007, Gosling was named Officer of the Order of Canada . This is the second tier of the highest honor a civilian can receive in Canada. In 2019 he became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum .

Publications

  • James Gosling, David SH Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden: The NeWS Book: An Introduction to the Network / Extensible Window System (Sun Technical Reference Library). Springer, 1989, ISBN 0-387-96915-2
  • James Gosling, Henry McGilton: The Java language Environment: A white paper . Sun Microsystems , 1996
  • James Gosling, Frank Yellin, The Java Team: The Java Application Programming Interface. Volume 1: Core Packages. Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63453-8
  • James Gosling, Frank Yellin, The Java Team: The Java Application Programming Interface. Volume 2: Window Toolkit and Applets. Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63459-7
  • James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr .: The Java Language Specification. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63451-1
  • Ken Arnold, James Gosling: The Java programming language. Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63455-4
  • Ken Arnold, James Gosling: The Java programming language. 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-31006-6
  • Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes: The Java Programming Language. 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70433-1
  • Gregory Bollella (Editor), Benjamin Brosgol, James Gosling, Peter Dibble, Steve Furr, David Hardin, Mark Turnbull: The Real-Time Specification for Java. Addison-Wesley Longman, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70323-8
  • James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr., Gilad Bracha: The Java Language Specification. 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-31008-2
  • James Gosling, Bill Joy , Guy L. Steele Jr. , Gilad Bracha: The Java Language Specification. 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-24678-0
  • Ken Arnold , James Gosling, David Holmes: The Java Programming Language. 4th edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-34980-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Gosling: Algebraic constraints. Thesis (Ph. D.), Carnegie-Mellon University, Department of Computer Science, Pittsburgh 1983, reference in worldcat.org
  2. ↑ Time to move on (English)
  3. ↑ Blog entry by James Gosling (August 30, 2011)
  4. ↑ James Gosling leaves Google, Heise.de, (August 31, 2011)
  5. ↑ Legendary Techie James Gosling Joins Amazon Web Services (May 23, 2017)
  6. ^ Order of Canada announcement

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