Java book by james gosling biography

Canadian computer scientist (born 1955)

James Arthur GoslingOC (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.^[3]

Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to window systems.

Early life

Gosling attended William Aberhart High School in Calgary, Alberta.

Java book by james gosling biography

While in high school, he wrote some of the software to analyze data from the ISIS 2 satellite, working for the University of Calgary physics department.^[4] He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Calgary^[5] and his M.A.

and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, all in computer science.^[2][6][7] He wrote a version of Emacs called Gosling Emacs (Gosmacs) while working toward his doctorate.

He built a multi-