James Arthur Gosling
He was born in May 19, 1955.He is also known as the father of the Java programming language.
He was a Canadian computer scientist.
James Gosling received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Calgary and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University While working towards his doctorate, he wrote a version of Emacs called Gosling Emacs.
Between 1984 and 2010, Gosling was with Sun Micro systems.
Awards
2002:
He was awarded The Economist Innovation Award.
2002:
He was awarded The Flame Award USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.
2007:
He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.The Order is Canada's second highest civilian honor. Officers are the second highest grade within the Order.
2013:
He became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
2015:
awarded IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
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