COMPUTER SCIENTIST

James Gosling

1955 - Today

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James Arthur Gosling (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language. Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to window systems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Gosling has received more than 2,210,646 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). James Gosling is the 47th most popular computer scientist (up from 55th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 165th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, James Gosling ranks 47 out of 245. Before him are Edmund M. Clarke, Charles Bachman, Amir Pnueli, J. C. R. Licklider, Joseph Weizenbaum, and John Cocke. After him are Brian Kernighan, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Brooks, Leslie Lamport, Geoffrey Hinton, and Edwin Catmull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, James Gosling ranks 137. Before him are Paul Romer, Fernando Meirelles, Asif Ali Zardari, Edwin Moses, Matti Vanhanen, and Jean-Hugues Anglade. After him are Wang Huning, Laurie Metcalf, Friedrich Merz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Vladimir Sorokin, and Judy Davis.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, James Gosling ranks 153 out of 1,622. Before him are Shania Twain (1965), Gerald Bull (1928), Joshua Slocum (1844), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Sid Meier (1954), and Donald Arnold (1935). After him are Ted Kotcheff (1931), Brian Kernighan (1942), Fay Wray (1907), Hayden Christensen (1981), Albert W. Tucker (1905), and John Tuzo Wilson (1908).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among computer scientists born in Canada, James Gosling ranks 1. After him are Brian Kernighan (1942), Alfred Aho (1941), John Draper (1943), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Rob Pike (1956), Gilles Brassard (1955), and Maria Klawe (1951).

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