For those (like me) who don't know he's famous because he invented Java. http://...

praptak · on March 28, 2011

For those for whom this is not enough (or maybe even negative :-) ), there's NeWS.

Regardless of this you should also read his "Window System Design:If I had it to do over again in 2002" ( http://www.hack.org/mc/texts/gosling-wsd.pdf ), which is sort of predicting the X -> Wayland move and a good paper on software design.

nl · on March 29, 2011

Also, he wrote the first version of Emacs for Unix (which was later forked by Richard Stallman to become GNU Emacs)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs