Java creator James Gosling joins ocean robot maker Liquid Robotics

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47 points·ukdm··9 comments

Interesting, since he just joined google 5 months ago... http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20047787-264.html

I wonder if this is in any way related with the ongoing android litigation snafu.

The article mentions his concerns about Oracle's legal battle with Google, and the use of Sun's patents for that matter. It doesn't mention Android in any way.

Yeah the article talks about the things he said after he left Oracle but before he joined Google, but is pretty light on the specifics (the "ongoing legal battle" mentioned is the Android patent snafu).

I'm really glad for James Gosling. It is always sad when you see these brains wandering around and not knowing what to do with their skills.

Sounds like an awesome project to work on. Curious whether Java will make it into the tech stack.. The careers page mentions "A broad range of software development in C, C++ and C#"

The founder of Liquid Robotics gave a Stanford EE380 talk in 2009.

The abstract is at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/091028.html

There's a link to the video at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay0910.html .

His own blog post: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/i_ve_moved_again

Java + super-intelligent octopuses + underwater robots... what could go wrong?

(Sorry guys, couldn't resist.)

octopuses are going to build blue boxes to hack into underwater enterprise servers to talk to their friends half an ocean floor away ....

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