James Gosling

 

James Gosling OC is a famous Canadian computer scientist best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.

Gosling had an excellent career wherein he worked with Sun Microsystems between 1984 and 2010. In March 2011, he joined Google, and six months later, Gosling joined a startup called Liquid Robotics. In 2017 joined Amazon Web Services as Distinguished Engineer. 

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

Important contributions and achievements

  1. James Gosling developed a multi-processor version of Unix for a 16-way computer system.
  2. He created the Unix windowing system called NeWS.
  3. He was nominated as a Foreign Associate member by the National Academy of Engineering in the U.S.
  4. In his graduation days, James Gosling invented the p-code virtual machine so that his professor could run programs written in UCSD Pascal.
  5. He is the recipient of the Innovation Award from The Economist.

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