Dr. James A. Gosling (born May 19, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist who invented Java.

Gosling was born on May 19, 1955 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.^[1] He studied at the University of Calgary and at Carnegie Mellon University. Gosling is married. They have two children.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to James Gosling.

• James Gosling's personal weblog
• Presentation by James Gosling about the origins of Java, from the JVM Languages Summit 2008
• slide show depicting Gosling's life

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