Brief Description: "Father of Java" (though not its sole parent)
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Often referred to as the "Father of Java," Gosling is the first to point out that in fact there were other parents of the language that began as "Oak," developed as part of the so-called "Green Project" at Sun started in December 1990 by Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan, and Gosling.
In May 1995, now re-named as "Java," it burst onto the technology world.
Gosling, who is now CTO of Sun's Developer Products group - which since the departure from Sun of Rob Gingell now includes the J2SE engineering organization - implemented Java's original compiler and virtual machine.
Almost always dressed in blue jeans, Birkenstocks and a t-shirt, Gosling could easily be mistaken for your typical card-carrying geek: but he's an alpha geek. He grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and shortly after he saw his first computer - aged 14, at the University of Calgary - he began breaking into the computer center to play with the computers and, in his words, "read, read, read." A year later, at 15, he began writing software for the university's physics department.
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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