James Gosling Leaves Google

scottbomb writes "Well, that didn't take long: 'After only a few months at Google, Java founder James Gosling has left the search engine giant to go to a small startup company specializing in ocean-based robotics.' In a brief blog post about his new company, Gosling says, 'They have a growing fleet of autonomous vehicles that roves the ocean collecting data from a variety of onboard sensors and uploading it to the cloud. The robots have a pile of satellite uplink/GSM/WiMax communication gear and redundant GPS units. They have a bunch of deployments. For example, one is a set of robots patrolling the ocean around the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico monitoring water chemistry. These craft harvest energy from the waves for propulsion and can stay at sea for a very long time. The longest that one craft has been out is 2.5(ish) years. They can cross oceans.... Slowly. They only move at 1-2 knots, which is a great speed for data collection.'"

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[Niomosy]

At least we can take comfort in the robots likely getting a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space error.

I take out Gosling's trash

[TheModelEskimo]

It would be cool if they had a job opening for like, a janitor. I'll bet there would be some incredibly bright programmers applying for that janitor position. :-)

(Only annoyance: Manual garbage collection)

P.S. your logo is straight out of a Saturday morning cartoon

... just like Java

[ccr]

The first thing that popped out as I glanced through the post was:

"They can cross oceans.... Slowly. They only move at 1-2 knots, which is a great speed for data collection."

And I thought to myself, "slowly? .. well, it's father of Java, after all."

Gosling leaving?

[the_humeister]

So, that means Kate is staying then?

No change

[jdavidb]

Now he's just doing Google Streetview underwater!

Re:Oracle?

[lennier]

Dunno, maybe they'll switch to Forth as their language... That'd be pretty cool...

FORTH GO MULTIPLY AND