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James Gosling

Founder and Lead Designer of the Java programming language, worked at Sun Microsystems where he created Java, held senior positions at Oracle Corporation, contributed extensively to software engineering and programming language design.

About

James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist best known for creating the Java programming language while working at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s.
His work revolutionized software development by enabling platform-independent programming.
Gosling has held significant roles at Sun Microsystems and later Oracle Corporation, contributing to various technology projects and advancing programming language innovation.
He is widely recognized as a pioneer in software engineering.

Areas of Expertise

software engineer computer scientist

Recent Podcasts

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James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126

Topic: Programming Languages and Computing History

01:51:01471,96511,4165 years ago
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