Bio: James Gosling, Vice President and Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems. Recently appointed to Sun Fellow, Gosling is the lead engineer and key architect behind Sun Microsystems' revolutionary new Java programming language, a language ideally suited to the Internet and distributed computing as it is platform-independent, secure, multi-threaded, compact, and object- oriented. Gosling has been involved in distributed computing at Sun since his arrival in 1984. His first project was the NeWS window system. Before joining Sun, he built a multiprocessor version of Unix; the original Andrew window system and tool kit; and several compilers and mail systems. He also built the original Unix `Emacs', and helped build a satellite data acquisition system. Gosling received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. Gosling's doctorate thesis was entitled "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints."