Now, he stood on the top of the new wave: Marine robot science. Below, we will with Gosling, see now what he is doing, and will be a witness, Java as a magic language, always at the forefront of science.
Was born in Calgary computer genius James Gosling, because "the father of Java" and famous in the world, and Java, this "a writing, everywhere run" programming language has been applied to billions of mobile devices and the Internet on the server.
In the past twenty years, he for others write Java applications, now, this has 57 years old computer scientists finally have a chance to write a program for themselves the. After from 26 years, as well as the last five months in Google work experience, Gosling after in August 2011 a decision from the world's largest IT company resign, devoted to sea world.
Ten months ago, Gosling joined a small silicon valley start-up, Liquid Robotics, this company produces motor type, full autonomy research robot. This kind of robot use solar sensors in the ocean heavy brush, collect scientific data. As the Liquid Robotics chief software architect, Gosling responsible for design backend storage system. As called "Wave Gliders" deployed to global ship, the collected data quantity will increase greatly, back-end storage system is for management and display the data and design.
"Still can than what is Marine robot more cool?" In an interview, Gosling ask me.
Indeed, their products completely without fuel, the current push forward, accomplish truly "carbon-free" drive. Wave Glider consists of two parts. The first part floating on the water, it looks as if is in the board embedded several solar panels. Under the board, through a 6 meters long, similar umbilical cord the same rope and a submerged with multiple flanking equipment connected to the device called the underwater glider.
The waves make equipment like surfing board in the water floating up and down. In the board design flank to fluctuation floating force into motivation. The navigation equipment can remote control, can also advance in robot write code.
"A lot of people want to use wave to power generation, the fact that this is really difficult." Gosling and I said, "forward? We did very well."
Liquid Robotics does good, in March, it creates a guinness book of world records, 4 sets each forward Wave Glider, 6000 kilometers across the Pacific, along the route of the turns and twists, from San Francisco to Hawaii. A pilotless waves drive equipment's record is 4630 kilometers. Two weeks ago, Wave Glider started the last 16700 kilometers of navigation, starting from Hawaii, two table will sail to Japan, the other two table to Australia. They will be in early 2013 or more earlier what destination.
Gosling said, in close contact before Wave Glider, people are not fully aware of how tough it is. "When you see their pictures, you may be due to their simple shape and despise them. However, they can deal with all kinds of abnormal climate."
Marine risk including eight meters high waves and winds and currents. But to Wave Glider speaking, the real danger is the shark attack. "Shark to Wave Glider very interested," Gosling said, "it even lost a tooth. It to ourselves, but it can do just tear just."
So, the ambitious Pacific expedition is what purpose? Robot carry sensor will collect and transfer to a large number of Marine information, this is unprecedented. It contains the sea temperature, wave height, climatic conditions, water quality, chemical composition, as well as many other information, all of these can be in the analysis of global climate change and provide a basis for environmental pollution (though any sensor can complete the work, but to do so is to science and business consideration).