Go James!
Posted by admin, Wed Feb 21 11:52:10 UTC 2007
Java creator named to Order of Canada
The man credited with inventing the Java programming language commonly used on the World Wide Web has been appointed to the Order of Canada. James Gosling, a vice-president of Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has been named an officer of the Order of Canada, the office of the Governor General announced on Monday. Java creator James Gosling at the Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, Calif., in 2005. Gosling is one of 29 Canadians named Officers of the Order of Canada and will receive his insignia later in 2007.
I wonder if he’ll show up for the ceremony wearing that t-shirt… Just kidding, James!