Right now working In: SUN Microsystems
Was born: May 19, 1956 Canada
Written Books(as co-author):
Java� Language Specification
Java� Programming Language
Little Story:
While at Sun Microsystems, James Gosling has amongst other things built a multiprocessor version of Unix, and several compilers (a compiler is necessary for a programming language to be read by a computer; the compiler will change the text of the programming into a form that the computer can understand, that is, binary). He was the lead engineer of a windows manager called Network Extensible Windowing System (NeWS), a PostScript-interpreter based system of distributing computer-processing power across a network. He wrote the first version of a text editor called `Emacs' for Unix systems, which is now a very popular and powerful text editor.
Most recently, James Gosling was the leader of the team that developed the Internet programming language JAVA. The work on that language began in 1991, and as is the case with many important inventions, the initial work was not on a programming language for the web at all. Instead, a team called the Green Team (of which Gosling was the leader) was formed with the idea of creating an easy way for different appliances in a house to connect and work together. The project went through several changes on its way to becoming Java. First they renamed the project First Person, which was to be a group working on an interactive television. When the Internet became so important a little later in the nineties, the team worked to create applications that would work on any Web client. From that came Java.
P.S: I always like to say; As the world speaks english, internet speaks JAVA.
Awards and Honors:
The 14th Annual Awards (1997) as Persons of the Year
Leafy Award Winners
InfoWorld Innovators awards
Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming awards
Website: http://java.sun.com/people/jag/
Right now working In: O'Reilly Associates
Was born:1954
Written Books:
Perl 5 Pocket Reference
Perl Cookbook
Programming Perl
Little Story:
Larry Wall originally created Perl while a programmer at Unisys. He now works full time guiding the future development of the language as a researcher and developer at O'Reilly & Associates. Larry is known for his idiosyncratic and thought-provoking approach to programming, as well as for his groundbreaking contributions to the culture of free software programming. He is the principal author of the bestselling Programming Perl, known colloquially as "the Camel book."
Awards and Honors:
Free Software Foundation Award
Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming awards
Website: http://www.wall.org/~larry/
