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Photos: Sun's Gosling shows off Java By James Martin, CNET News.com May 14, 2007 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Photos-Sun-s-Gosling-shows-off-Java/0,139023769,339277126,00.htm
On the last day of JavaOne, the Sun vice president shares exotic uses of the software, like dancing robots and underwater exploration vehicles. 
At "The Toy Show" on the final day of the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun Vice President James Gosling shows some cutting-edge Java technologies and exotic uses of the software to legions of Java fans. Gosling, a Sun fellow and one of its software group's chief technology officers, addressed the crowd on May 11. Gosling often is called the father of Java for his role in creating the programming language. Related article: Read our interview with James Gosling on how Sun Microsystems plans to return Java to its roots and the role of the newly launched JavaFX Script. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Sun's Roman Shaposhnik shows a project, called D-Light, that brings Sun's DTrace technology to Java applications. DTrace shows the deep workings of software as it runs, letting programmers find bottlenecks and better understand how their code performs. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Greg Anderson of Ricoh, left, and Sun's Petr Suchomel (centre) demonstrate to Gosling a Java-enabled printer that can print photos directly from a cell phone. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com
Gosling mugs for the camera phone onstage during a display of Java used on phones and printers. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Java technology can be used to power trivia games that accompany Blu-ray movies -- in this case X-Men: The Last Stand. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Tad Frysinger, chief executive of Cineshot, touts a Java-based application that can perform real-time video analysis and compositing tasks. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
A James Gosling avatar wanders through Project Wonderland, a Java-based virtual realm that runs on Sun's Project Darkstar game server infrastructure. Wonderland includes voice support so that close conversations are audible but fade away with distance. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Gosling, David Sufer and Bernard Traversat watch from the stage as WowWee's RS Media robot shows off its multimedia capabilities powered by Java applications. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
The RS Media robot executes a dance routine programmed in Java to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Sun's Greg Bollella demonstrates a Java-powered industrial robot from ABB Robots in Sweden. The three-armed robot is designed to manipulate croissants and chocolate bonbons, but at the show it drew a preprogrammed portrait of Gosling and played mumbledy-peg with a fake hand. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Bollella accepts a bottle of Gosling rum from James Gosling as an award for his work. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Students from Montreal gather onstage to discuss their Sonia AUV project, which uses Java to run an autonomous underwater exploration vehicle. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com 
Gosling explores Sonia AUV with a representative from the Montreal student group responsible for programming the Java robot. Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com
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