Oral History of James Gosling Part 2 of 2

Interviewed by Hansen Hsu and Marc Weber on 2019-04-22 in Mountain View, CA © Computer History Museum James Gosling is known as the father of the Java programming language. Growing up and attending college in Calgary, Alberta, Gosling began his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 1977, finishing in 1983. While at CMU, Gosling developed the first Unix version of Emacs, learned about byte codes while porting PERQ software to VAX, and developed the Andrew window system. After a brief stint at IB