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Patrick Naughton
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Patrick Naughton is an American software developer and convicted sex offender. He is one of the creators of the Java programming language.
In 1983, Naughton co-wrote a MacPaint clone, Painter's Apprentice, with Russ Nelson.
Java (Sun)#History
As a Sun Microsystems engineer, Patrick Naughton had become 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.
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.
In 1994, Naughton quit Sun for Starwave (then a property of Paul Allen) to develop server Java applications for web sites. He was the author of "The Java Handbook", (, Osborne, 1995) and co-author of Java: The Complete Reference, with Herbert Schildt (, Osborne, 1996)
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.
On Sept. 14, 1999, Naughton flew from Seattle to Los Angeles on a private Disney jet.
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