James Gosling

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

Life

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

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

On April 2, 2010 James Gosling, Sun Microsystems (now acquired by Oracle ) leave. He worked for a few months at Google, so I can work in a small California company as Chief Software Architect.

Awards

2007 Gosling was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. This represents the second stage of the highest award that can get a civilian in Canada.

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 Boll Ella ( 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
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