Editing James Gosling (section)

== Early life ==
Gosling was born in [[Calgary|Calgary, Alberta]], to Joyce Morrison and Dave Gosling. He is of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Icelandic descent. Gosling attended [[William Aberhart High School]]. While in high school, he wrote some of the software to analyze data from the [[ISIS (satellite)|ISIS 2]] satellite, working for the [[University of Calgary]] physics department.<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Gosling |first=James |interviewer1=Hansen Hsu |interviewer2=Marc Weber |title=Oral History of James Gosling, part 1 of 2 |url=https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/10/102781080-05-01-acc.pdf |date=March 15, 2019 |pages=19-24}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Science]] from the University of Calgary<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/bio.html |title=academic-conference-style bio of James Gosling |access-date=2015-05-13 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601031152/http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/bio.html |archive-date=2015-06-01 }}</ref> and his M.A. and Ph.D. from [[Carnegie Mellon University]], all in [[computer science]].<ref name="mathgene"/><ref name="goslingphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=James|last=Gosling |title=Algebraic Constraints |publisher=Carnegie Mellon University |date=1983 |author-link=James Gosling|id={{ProQuest|303133100}}}}</ref><ref>[https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~alumni/advisor.html#G Phd Awards By Advisor]. Cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.</ref> He wrote a version of [[Emacs]] called [[Gosling Emacs]] (Gosmacs) while working toward his doctorate. He built a multi-processor version of Unix for a 16-way computer system<ref>James Gosling mentioned a multiprocessor Unix in his statement during the [[United States v. Microsoft|US vs Microsoft Antitrust DOJ trial]] in 1998 {{cite web
 |url = http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f2000/2049.htm
 |title = DOJ/Antitrust
 |work = Statement in MS Antitrust case
 |publisher = US DOJ
 |access-date = 1 February 2007
}}</ref> while at Carnegie Mellon University, before joining [[Sun Microsystems]]. He also developed several [[compiler]]s and [[Mail transfer agent|mail systems]] there.
Gosling has two children, Katie and Kelsey, who are half siblings from his two marriages.