- James Gosling
James Gosling is a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems ,and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint-based drawing editor, and a text editor called "Emacs" for Unix systems. At Sun, his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system.
- Bruce Eckel
Bruce Eckel (born July 8, 1957) is the author of numerous books and articles about computer programming. He also gives frequent lectures and seminars for computer programmers. His best known works are "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++", aimed at programmers wanting to learn the Java or C++ programming languages, particularly those with little experience of object-oriented programming.
- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- Marc Fleury
Marc Fleury is the creator of JBoss, an open-source Java application server. Fleury holds a degree in mathematics and a Doctorate in physics from the École Polytechnique in Paris and a Master in Theoretical Physics from the École Normale. He worked in France for Sun Microsystems before moving to the United States where he has worked on various Java projects. Marc's research interest focused on middleware, and he started the JBoss project in 1999.
- Bruce Tate
Bruce Tate is a pundit and writer of books about software, currently employed as an independent consultant. He is best know for his Java-related work, including his book "Beyond Java", a critical analysis of the Java language.
- Erich Gamma
Erich Gamma BIO Erich Gamma is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He is one of the leaders of the Jazz project. He was the original lead of the Eclipse's Java development environment (JDT) and is on the Project Management Committee for the Eclipse project. Erich is also a member ...
- Doug Lea
Doug Lea is a professor of computer science at State University of New York at Oswego where he specializes in concurrent programming. He is on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process and chaired JSR 166, which added concurrency utilities to the Java programming language. He is also the author of dlmalloc, a widely-used public-domain implementation of malloc.
- James Duncan Davidson
James Duncan Davidson is an American software developer. While a software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997–2001), Davidson created the Tomcat Java‐based webserver application and the Ant Java‐based build tool. He was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, and is currently self‐employed as both a software consultant and a photographer. He is a resident of Portland, Oregon.
- Andrew Gower
Andrew Gower is the lead developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd, a Java-based game distributor and creator. One of his most famous creations is the MMORPG game "RuneScape", created during his time at the University of Cambridge.
- Diponegoro
Pangeran Diponegoro (born Yogyakarta 1785- died Makassar 1855) was a Javanese prince who opposed the Dutch colonial rule. He played an important role in the Java War (1825-1830). In 1830, the Dutch exiled him to Manado. Diponegoro was a prince in the Javanese court of Yogyakarta. In the early 19th century the Javanese nobles were deprived of their right to lease land, which right was taken over by the Dutch colonial authority in order to improve their finances.
- Walter Savitch
Professor Savitch is well know for his work in complexity theory, which includes the first example of a complete language, namely a language complete for the storage class log n. This fundamental work led directly to the now widespread interest in complete problems. Savitch's research interests include computational complexity of parallel programs, with an emphasis on automatically converting serial complexity bounds to parallel complexity bounds.
- Gregor Kiczales
Gregor Kiczales is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He co-founded Intentional Software with Charles Simonyi in 2002, but no longer appears to have any affiliation with that company. His best known work is on Aspect-oriented programming and the AspectJ extension for Java at Xerox PARC. He has also contributed to the design of the Common Lisp Object System, …
- Michael Morrison
Michael Wayne Morrison (born August 24, 1970) is an American author, software developer, and toy inventor. He is best known for his books on topics including Internet design and development, mobile device usage, and game programming. Morrison's writing career began in the early 1990's and coincided with the release of the Java programming language. He embraced the Java technology and wrote and contributed to numerous Java books, …
- Chulalongkorn
King Chulalongkorn the Great or Rama V (royal name: Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua was the fifth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings of Siam. The Thais call him "The Great Beloved King" Chulalongkorn was born September 20, 1853 in Bangkok as the oldest son of King Mongkut (Rama IV) and Queen Debsirinda.
- Airlangga
Airlangga (also spelt Erlangga) (born 991 in Bali, Indonesia, died 1049 in Java) was the first and only raja of the Kingdom of Kahuripan, which was built out of the rubble of the Kingdom of Medang after the Sriwijaya invasion.
- David Megginson
David Megginson (born 1964) is a Canadian computer software consultant and developer, specializing in open source software development and application. He was the lead developer and original maintainer of the Simple API for XML, or SAX, a leading streaming API for XML. Megginson has been part of the SGML and then XML communities since 1991.
- Keren Ann
Keren Ann (born Keren Ann Zeidel in Caesarea, Israel, on March 10 1974) is a recording artist/singer/songwriter/producer based largely in Paris, New York City and Israel. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet, engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements. She is descended from Russian Jews on her father's side and is Indo (Javanese and Dutch) on her mother's. She lived in Israel and in the Netherlands until the age of 11, …
- Hayam Wuruk
Hayam Wuruk, also called (after 1350) "Rajasanagara", (1334 -1389), was the ruler of the Javanese Hindu state of Majapahit at the time of its greatest power. He was preceded by Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi and succeded by Wikramawardhana. He inherited the throne in 1350 at the age of 16, when the great patih (prime minister) Gajah Mada was at the height of his career. Under his rule, Majapahit extended its power throughout the Indonesian archipelago.
- James Holmes
James Holmes is a leading Java Web development authority. He is a committer on the Struts project, and the creator of the most popular Struts development tool, Struts Console. Additionally, Oracle Magazine named him “Java Developer of the Year” in 2002 for his work with the Struts framework and Oracle JDeveloper. James is an independent consultant providing expert consulting for complex transactional environments, including ADP, Bank of America, IBM, and UPS.
- Mark Grand
Mark Grand (1955-?) is a software architect and the author of several books on Java and software design. He earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science at Syracuse University in 1977 after graduating from the Bronx High School of Science in 1973. Grand was the architect of the first commercial business-to-business e-commerce product for the internet.
- Patrick Naughton
Patrick Naughton is one of the original creators of the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems. He is also the original developer of the popular Unix screensaver "xlock". He authored the book The Java Handbook and co-authored the book Java: The Complete Reference. He was also the Chief Technology Officer and President of Starwave and CTO for Disney's Disney Internet Group and Executive Vice President of Products for Go.com and Infoseek.
- Michael Kölling
Michael Kölling Ph.D is a German senior programming lecturer and software developer currently lecturing at the University of Kent. He is also a key member of the team that developed the BlueJ and Greenfoot Java learning environments. BlueJ is used in over 780 institutions world wide. Kölling was also involved in the development of the Blue programming language which was an object-oriented programming language that was developed especially for teaching.
- J. B. Rainsberger
J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger is the Founder of Diaspar Software Services, where he coaches both individual programmers and entire teams in value-driven software development practices. His book, JUnit Recipes is the top-selling book for Java programmers about JUnit, testing and test-driven development. Joe has been an XP practitioner, researcher, presenter and author since 2000 and was awarded the Gordon Pask award in 2005 for contributions to the agile community.
- John Harris
Colonel John Harris (May 20, 1790 - May 12, 1864) was the sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps. Harris was born in East Whiteland, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on 23 April 1814. Two months later he was promoted to first lieutenant and, during the summer of that year, served with the forces that opposed the advance of the British on the city of Washington during the concluding days of the War of 1812.
- Sukarno
Sukarno was the first President of Indonesia. He helped the country win its independence from the Netherlands and was President from 1945 to 1967, presiding with mixed success over the country's turbulent transition to independence. Sukarno was forced from power by one of his generals, Suharto, who formally became President in March 1967.
- David Cooper
David Cooper holds the Foundation Chair of Disaster Response and Preparedness in the Menzies Institute of Health Research, Charles Darwin University and the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Royal Darwin Hospital. Prior to his current position Cooper was the Director of the NSW Health Counter Disaster Unit and was responsible for the development of the Australian Mass Casualty Burn Disaster Plan (AUSBURNPLAN).
- Nick Didkovsky
Nick Didkovsky is a composer, guitarist, computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve. He is a former student of Christian Wolff and Gerald Shapiro. Didkovsky has developed a Java music API called JMSL (Java Music Specification Language). JMSL is a toolbox for algorithmic composition and performance. JMSL includes JScore, an extensible staff notation editor. JMSL can output music using either JavaSound or JSyn.
- David Reilly
David Reilly (born Feb 19, 1977); is an Australian computer scientist and author. His first book, "Italic Java Network Programming & Distributed Computing" (ISBN 0-201-71037-4) is a college level textbook teaching network programming using the Java programming language, published in the US by Addison-Wesley. David Reilly trained and studied at Bond University in Queensland, Australia, …
- Kevlin Henney
Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer based in Bristol, UK. He has variously developed and delivered training courses, consultancy and software across a number of domains ever since getting involved in professional software development in the late 1980s.
- L. Peter Deutsch
L. Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript interpreter. Deutsch's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation that, among other innovations, inspired Java just-in-time technology 15 or-so years later. He also wrote the PDP-1 Lisp 1.5 implementation, Basic PDP-1 LISP, "while still in short pants". He is also the author of a number of RFCs.
- William Pugh
William Pugh (Bill Pugh) is the inventor of the skip list, and was highly influential in the development of the current memory model of the Java language. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- Edward Felten
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a government witness during the antitrust trial in 1998. But in court, Microsoft adroitly demonstrated that, the way its software is written, Internet Explorer shows up unexpectedly now and then -- no matter how well the program is hidden -- backing its contention that the browser is integral to the operating system.
- Ole-Johan Dahl
Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. Dahl, born in Mandal, Norway, is widely accepted as Norway’s foremost computer scientist.
- Guy L. Steele Jr.
Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Programming Language Research project.
- Raden Wijaya
Raden Wijaya (also known as Kertarajasa Jayawardhana) (reigned 1293-1309) was the founder and first raja of the Majapahit Empire on Java, Indonesia. The story of his founding of Majapahit was written in several records, including Pararaton and Negarakertagama.
- Walter Spies
Walter Spies was a Russian-born German primitivist painter. In 1923 he came to Java, living first in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting in 1927. He is often credited with attracting the attention of Western cultural figures to Balinese culture and art. In December 1938, Spies was arrested as part of a crackdown on homosexuals. With the influence of people such as Margaret Mead, he was released in September 1939.
- Budi Santoso
Budi Santoso is an Indonesian business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses. He was born in Kudus, Indonesia, and grew up in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. He took control of his father's Tobacco shop aged 20, and by age 29 had turned it into the largest business in the country. At the time, Indonesia was a Big country. Santoso, now mass-producing Cigarettes spares for the whole country and for overseas.
- Mike Cowlishaw
Mike Cowlishaw is an IBM Fellow based at IBM UK’s Warwick location, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in the USA). Cowlishaw joined IBM in 1974 as an electronic engineer but is best known as a programmer and writer.
- Michael Kiesling
Michael Kiesling is a German board game designer. Many of his games have been nominated for or have won the Spiel des Jahres, a German games award. He is best known for co-authoring the board game trilogy Tikal, Java and Mexica with Wolfgang Kramer.
- Bob Hasan
Mohamad "Bob" Hasan (born 1931) is an Indonesian businessman, former Minister of Trade and Industry, and friend of former president of Indonesia Suharto. Hasan was convicted of corruption in 2001 in a widely-publicised trial. Hasan, who is of Indonesian Chinese descent and whose birth name is The Kian Seng, was born in Semarang, Central Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in February 1931. He changed his name upon becoming a Muslim.