James Gosling Alive
Led the Oak project at Sun that became Java — write once, run anywhere — and designed its virtual machine.
1960198020002020
Worked at Sun Microsystems
Created Java
Created Java at Sun ('Oak' originally) — the 'write once run anywhere' language — and built Emacs implementations, the Gosling Emacs being the first C one.\n\nLeft Sun to Oracle in the acquisition; his 'Java: The Movie' story of how the design happened is required viewing.