Green Project Formed

James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton form a small, secretive group at Sun Microsystems with the goal of developing technology for the next wave of consumer electronics.

Significance

This marked the very genesis of the ideas and team that would eventually create Java, driven by a vision for ubiquitous computing.

Key facts

Date
1990-12-01
Type
invention
Location
Menlo Park, California