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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 12397" data-attributes="member: 212"><img src="http://weblogs.java.net/jag/bio/JagHeadshot.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a PhD  in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". He is currently a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a text editor called `Emacs' for Unix systems. At Sun his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. He has recently been a contributor to the Real-Time Specification for Java, and most recently was a researcher at Sun labs where his primary interest was software development tools. He is now the Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products group.</blockquote>

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