Patrick Naughton
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Patrick Naughton (born in 1965) is an American software developer, best known as being one of the original creators of the Java programming language.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Working for Sun
As a Sun engineer, Patrick Naughton had become increasingly frustrated with the state of Sun's C++ and C APIs (application programming interfaces) and tools. While considering moving to NeXT, Naughton was offered a chance to work on new technology and thus the Stealth Project was started.
The Stealth Project was soon renamed to the Green Project with James Gosling and Mike Sheridan joining Naughton. Together with other engineers, they began work in a small office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. They were attempting to develop a new technology for programming next generation smart appliances, which Sun expected to be a major new opportunity.[1][2]
In June and July 1994, after three days of brainstorming with John Gage, the Director of Science for Sun, James Gosling, Bill Joy, Naughton, Wayne Rosing, and Eric Schmidt, the team re-targeted the platform for the World Wide Web. They felt that with the advent of the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, the Internet was on its way to evolving into the same highly interactive medium that they had envisioned for cable TV. As a prototype, Naughton wrote a small browser, WebRunner, later renamed HotJava.[3]
[edit] After Sun
In 1994, Naughton quit Sun for Starwave (then a property of Paul Allen) to develop server Java applications for high profile web sites (in times when J2EE frameworks did not exist yet) [3]. They developed ESPN.com, ABCNEWS.com, Outside Online, and Mr. Showbiz.com among other groundbreaking sites, setting the standard for much of the commercial Internet explosion of the late 1990s.
In 1998, Walt Disney Internet Group acquired Starwave and amalgamated it with Infoseek in the Go Network company. As a result, Naughton became executive vice president of Infoseek.
After his arrest in 1999, Naughton was fired from Infoseek.[4] He is currently employed by Azaleos.
[edit] Personal life
Patrick Naughton was arrested by the FBI on the 16 September 1999 and was prosecuted for traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to have sex with a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2423(b).[5] [4][6] After the trial ended in a hung jury, the government moved for a new trial, then struck a plea agreement where he took a reduced sentence, serving no prison time, in exchange for working for the FBI for free for a year.[7][8] His line of defense was that he claimed he was persuaded to participate online in a ritualized sexual role-playing exercise, dealing with a mature woman acting as a girl.[8]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Patrick Naughton. "Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C". http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
- ^ "Java Technology: The Early Years". Sun Microsystems. http://java.sun.com/features/1998/05/birthday.html. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
- ^ a b "Le cadre, le piège et la loi" (in French). cyberie.qc.ca. http://www.cyberie.qc.ca/chronik/990928.html#b. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
- ^ a b "Patrick Doesn't Work Here Anymore". Wired News. December 1999. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.12/mustread.html?pg=5. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
- ^ "CEO: Naughton said 'I did it'". zdnet.co.uk. 1999-12-09. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,2075734,00.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
- ^ "The Fantasy Defense". CBS News. 2000-05-31. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/05/24/eveningnews/main199192.shtml. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
- ^ "Patrick Naughton faces retrial". zdnet.co.uk. 2000-10-13. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/soa/Patrick-Naughton-faces-retrial-/0,139023165,120104206,00.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
- ^ a b "Paper 2: Legal Treatment Of Online Identity". emoglen.law.columbia.edu. 2006-04-29. http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/CPC/discuss/383.html. Retrieved 2009-08-02. "At his criminal trial, Naughton employed what has come to be known as the "fantasy defense": citing his technical sophistication and the adult tone of his interlocutor's conversation, he claimed that he believed her to be an adult woman playing the role of a teenage girl; which, indeed, she was, although for different reasons from those Naughton claimed to have believed."
