James Gosling Gosling, James <person> The software engineer who wrote {GOSMACS}, and served as {Sun Microsystems, Inc.} project leader for both {NeWS}, and {Java}. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun. (http://java.sun.com:80/people/jag/). Biography (http://sun.com/sunergy/Bios/gosling_bio.html). (1997-03-12)