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James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist who is best known for creating the Java programming language and the Oak operating system. He is also the founder of Gosling & Associates, a software consulting company.

Gosling was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and studied computer science at the University of Calgary. After graduating in 1977, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983.

In the early 1980s, Gosling began working at Sun Microsystems, where he joined the team that developed the Smalltalk programming language. He later went on to lead the team that developed 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.

Gosling also played a key role in the development of the Oak operating system, which was later renamed JavaOS. JavaOS was designed to be a platform for Java applications, and it was the first operating system to be written entirely in Java.

Gosling has received numerous awards for his contributions to computer science, including the ACM Award in Software Engineering (2001) and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2007). He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Gosling is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He is also the author of several books on Java programming, including The Java Programming Language (1996) and High Performance Java Programming (2004).