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James Gosling at Java Days in Paris
James Gosling came over to Java Days in the beautiful town of Versailles, just outside Paris. He gave his presentation on the state of Java, and of course answered the numerous questions from the panel and from the audience.
It is always nice to see James Gosling speak. He manages to answer some of the most difficult questions thrown at him. Of course someone always wants to know what is next for Java, and James's implacable reply is: "that's up to you, the community. Join the JCP." When he speaks one is reminded at just how far Java has come: It is used in billions of devices, is faster than C, and close to fortran, is used for business processes as well as for AI development, ... what a success!
James took the RER (the fast underground) back to his hotel in central Paris, and so I had time to chat with him about work in the Semantic Web. The really refreshing thing about James is his positive attitude combined with the breadth of his knowledge. For example he has no trouble mentioning the word AI (I believe I even heard him mention that word three times at the Java One keynote this year) . It's refreshing. Especially as he is able to bring some very interesting historical insights to the discussion. We talked for example about triple databases and quads (N3 graphs), and he pointed out how statements about statements were very useful in sensor devices, such as japanese rice cookers, that need to keep track of the measurements made by a number of sensors each of which with only a partial view of the world, and how fuzzy logic is used to help merge these different points of view to help make the perfect rice dish.
Posted at 02:42PM Jun 30, 2006 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in travel |
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