A true maverick, James Gosling is considered the father of the Internet's Java programming language (released in 1995), of which he was the key architect while working at SUN Microsystems. Now a fellow with the company, he's also the chief technology officer of the Java and Developer Products Organization. He'll be the first to admit that he was an "Internet geek" decades before the revolution hit and says that, to him, the Internet is all about connections. He imagines all that can be done with it: "I'm really a hippy at heart, who actually believes in world peace; getting people connected makes that happen."
