The father of Java is leaving Google to work on aquatic robots

The creator of Java will not remained only five months in Google.


James Gosling


A year and a half, we you announced the resignation of James Gosling - founding father of Java - Oracle home following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He decided, five months ago, joining the ranks of Google. A collaboration of short duration because one learns today as James Gosling, 56 years old, will join a company that designs robots specialized in the collection of information on the seabed, Liquid Robotics. A start-up company based in Sunnyvale in 2007 where Gosling will be responsible for the software part and where he will again meet one of his former classmates at Sun, Bill Vass.


"This is Bill which presented me the project of these aquatic robots, and initially, I believed that it was a joke." "But I soon saw that they could collect amazing data, and that they just need good software to properly exploit" explains, without commenting on its short period of activity in Google. It should be noted that these robots allow to make huge savings on money spent each year to probe the seabed.

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