James Gosling
is a Canadian computer scientist best known as the creator of the Java programmin g language
In 1991, Gosling began developing Java at Sun Microsystems as part of the Green Project. Originally called ‘Oak’ language, it was later renamed to ‘Java’ in 1995.
Career Highlights
- Sun Microsystems (1984-2010) Chief Technology Officer, Led Java development team
- Oracle Corporation (2010-2011) after Sun acquisition
- Google (2011-2017), Distinguished Engineer
- Amazon Web Services (2017-Present), Distinguished Engineer