After earning his bachelor’s degree at the U of C and continuing his education at Carnegie Mellon University, Gosling created Java programming language in 1995.

James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice.

James Gosling, creator of the Java computer language and one of the most prominent employees in Oracle Corp's newly acquired Sun Microsystems, has resigned from Oracle.