James Gosling

Contact Details

E-mail: jag@sun.com

WWW: http://java.sun.com/people/jag/

Biographical Information

James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was `The Manipulation of Algebraic Constraints'. He is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a text editor called `Emacs' for Unix systems. At Sun his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. More recently he has been the lead engineer for the Java/HotJava system.