Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems ( which has since merged into Oracle Corporation ) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems ' Java platform.

James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991.

On April 2, 2010, James Gosling resigned from Oracle.

James Gosling cites UCSD Pascal as a key influence ( along with the Smalltalk virtual machine ) on the design of the Java virtual machine.

** James Gosling, Canadian software engineer

James Gosling first thought of Servlets in the early days of Java, but the concept did not become a product until Sun shipped the product.

Dr. James A. Gosling, OC ( born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada ) is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.

On March 28, 2011, James Gosling announced on his blog that he had been hired by Google.

* Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes, The Java Programming Language, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-34980-6

* James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr., Gilad Bracha, The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-24678-0

* Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes, The Java Programming Language, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70433-1

* James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr., Gilad Bracha, The Java Language Specification, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-31008-2

* Gregory Bollella ( Editor ), Benjamin Brosgol, James Gosling, Peter Dibble, Steve Furr, David Hardin, Mark Turnbull, The Real-Time Specification for Java, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70323-8

* Ken Arnold, James Gosling, The Java programming language Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-31006-6

* Ken Arnold, James Gosling, The Java programming language, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63455-4

* James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr., The Java Language Specification, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63451-1

* James Gosling, Frank Yellin, The Java Team, The Java Application Programming Interface, Volume 2: Window Toolkit and Applets, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63459-7

* James Gosling, Frank Yellin, The Java Team, The Java Application Programming Interface, Volume 1: Core Packages, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63453-8

* James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java language Environment: A white paper, Sun Microsystems, 1996

* James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden, The NeWS Book: An Introduction to the Network / Extensible Window System ( Sun Technical Reference Library ), Springer, 1989, ISBN 0-387-96915-2

* Presentation by James Gosling about the origins of Java, from the JVM Languages Summit 2008

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Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

James Maury " Jim " Henson ( September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990 ) was an American puppeteer, best known as the creator of The Muppets.

James Cromwell was cast as Zefram Cochrane, the pilot and creator of Earth's first warp capable vessel.

* May 1 – James Black, creator of the original Bowie knife ( d. 1870 )

In developing the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", series creator Gene Roddenberry changed the captain's name to James T. Kirk after rejecting other options like Hannibal, Timber, Flagg, and Raintree.

Comedians Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong ( better known as the comedic duo Cheech and Chong ) have stated that NBC president Brandon Tartikoff sent series creator James Komack to follow the comedians on tour for three months ;

* Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Bt ( J M Barrie, Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan ) ( 1860 – 1937 )

Famous Otellos of the past have included Tamagno, the role's trumpet-voiced creator, as well as Giovanni De Negri, Albert Alvarez, Francisco Viñas, Giuseppe Borgatti, Antonio Paoli, Giovanni Zenatello, Renato Zanelli, Giovanni Martinelli, Aureliano Pertile, Francesco Merli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Frank Mullings, Leo Slezak, Jose Luccioni, Ramón Vinay, Mario del Monaco, James McCracken, Jon Vickers and Carlo Cossutta.

* John Stears ( 1934-1999 ), Oscar-winning creator of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, Star Wars robots R2-D2 and C-3PO, and the Jedi Knights ' lightsabers, among other special effects ), was born in Uxbridge.

* New Iberia is home to fictional detective Dave Robicheaux and his creator, author James Lee Burke.

James Robert " Jim " Davis ( born July 28, 1945 ) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strip Garfield.

Mercer is the birthplace of the 19th century painter Samuel Waugh, actor and impresario J C Williamson born here in 1845 ( full name James Cassius Williamson ) as well as musician Trent Reznor, creator of the band Nine Inch Nails, and John Bingham, a drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office.

He was married to Anna Dora Gaitskell from 1937, who became a Labour life peer one year after his death, but it is widely known that he had a number of affairs, even during his time in public life with the socialite Ann Fleming, the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called " Chitty Bang Bang ", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park.

Fleming was the brother of the James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Among their collaborations are a series of mysteries featuring Victoire Vernet, fictional wife of one of Napoleon's generals, a series featuring Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft, and a series fictionalizing the espionage experiences of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

* James Dyson, creator of Dyson vacuum cleaners

Initially intended as a relaunch of the Bond book series following the death in 1964 of the character's creator, Ian Fleming, Colonel Sun instead ends up being the final book of the series ( discounting a " biography " of Bond and a pair of film script adaptations ) until John Gardner revives the literary James Bond in 1981.

* Publication of Octopussy and the Living Daylights, the final collection of James Bond short stories by the character's creator, Ian Fleming, who had died in 1964.

Examples include Michael Faraday, who, with James Clerk Maxwell, unified the electric and magnetic forces in what are now known as Maxwell's equations ; James Joule, who worked extensively in thermodynamics and is often credited with the discovery of the principle of conservation of energy ; Paul Dirac, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics ; naturalist Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species and discoverer of the principle of evolution by natural selection ; Harold Kroto, the discoverer of buckminsterfullerene ; William Thomson ( Baron Kelvin ) who drew important conclusions in the field of thermodynamics and invented the Kelvin scale of absolute zero ; botanist Robert Brown discovered the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid ( Brownian motion ); and the creator of Bell's Theorem, John Stewart Bell.

Young sets Debs ’ s character against a constellation of historical figures using the language and imagery of the period to present a most brilliant and unparalleled gallery: the widowed Mary Todd Lincoln, the poet James Whitcomb Riley ( the creator of Little Orphan Annie ), Eugene Field, Bill Nye, Joe Hill, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Clarence Darrow, among numerous others.