Diff for James Gosling

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== Early life ==
'''James Gosling''' (born May 19, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist. He grew up near Calgary, Alberta. He earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the [[University of Calgary]] and a PhD from [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. His doctoral thesis was on the graphical constraints of programming.

== Career ==
Gosling joined [[Sun Microsystems]] in 1984. There he led the development of the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]], first released in 1995. He designed Java's original compiler and virtual machine. Before Java, he created [[Gosling Emacs]] (1981) and the [[NeWS]] window system (1987). He left Sun after its acquisition by Oracle in 2010, then worked at [[Google]], [[Liquid Robotics]], and [[Amazon Web Services]]. He retired in 2019.

== Contributions ==
* Creator of the Java language and its core libraries
* Author of the NeWS windowing system
* Developer of the first Emacs implementation in C (Gosling Emacs)
* Co-founder of the independent Java platform

Gosling has received numerous honors, including election to the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (2004) and the [[Order of Canada]] (2007).

[[Category:Canadian computer scientists]]
[[Category:Java programming language]]
[[Category:Software engineers]]