James Gosling is a computer scientist and software developer who is best known as the creator of the Java programming language. He was born on May 19, 1955, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Gosling earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Calgary in 1977, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983. After completing his Ph.D., he worked at Sun Microsystems (later acquired by Oracle) from 1984 to 2010.

At Sun Microsystems, Gosling led the team that created the Java programming language, which was first released in 1995. Java quickly became one of the most popular programming languages in the world, and it is still widely used today for a variety of applications.

In addition to his work on Java, Gosling has also contributed to other software projects, including the NeWS windowing system and the Gosling Emacs text editor. He has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the field of computer science, including the ACM Software System Award and the Order of Canada.

After leaving Sun Microsystems, Gosling worked at Google, where he worked on developing the programming language called "Gosu". Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Liquid Robotics, a company that designs and builds autonomous ocean robots for scientific research, environmental monitoring, and other applications.