James Gosling, the father of Java, one of the world's most widely used programming languages, has talked with research scientist Lex Fridman about Java's origins and his motivations for creating a ...

While its ubiquity, longevity, and presence in many back-office systems might make some engineers think of COBOL, 30 years ...

He joins CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, Director of Web technologies Tim Bray, and open source evangelist Simon Phipps in departing. James Gosling, the father of the ...

A prime benefit to using Java is that it shields programs from the differences of underlying hardware, such as different processors, letting a single program run on a variety of computing devices.

Java founder James Gosling has weighed in on ... "This skirmish isn't much about patents or principles or programming languages. The suit is far more about ego, money, and power," said Gosling.