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Patrick Naughton

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Patrick Naughton
NationalityAmerican
EducationClarkson University
Occupationsoftware developer/ executive
Known fortheJava programming language,internet sex crime[1]and thefantasy defense.[2]
Criminal charge(s)traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to have sex with a minor, in violation of18 U.S.C. §2423(b).[3][4][5]
Criminal penaltysentenced to five years of probation, nine months of home detention and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine[6]
Criminal statusguilty[1]

Patrick Naughtonis an Americansoftware developerand convicted sex offender. He is one of the creators of theJava programming language.

Career

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Early career

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In 1983, Naughton co-wrote aMacPaintclone,Painter's Apprentice,withRuss Nelson.[7]

Sun Microsystems

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See also:Java (Sun) § History

As aSun Microsystemsengineer, Patrick Naughton had become frustrated with the state of Sun's C++ andCAPIs(application programming interfaces) and tools.[citation needed]While considering moving toNeXT,Naughton was offered a chance to work on new technology and thus theStealth Projectwas started.[citation needed]

The Stealth Project was soon renamed to theGreen ProjectwithJames Goslingand Mike Sheridan joining Naughton. Together with other engineers, they began work in a small office onSand Hill RoadinMenlo 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.[8][self-published source][9]

In June and July 1994, after three days of brainstorming withJohn Gage,the Director of Science for Sun,James Gosling,Bill Joy,Naughton,Wayne Rosing,andEric Schmidt,the team re-targeted the platform for theWorld Wide Web.They felt that with the advent of the first graphicalweb 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 renamedHotJava.[10]

After Sun

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In 1994, Naughton quit Sun forStarwave(then a property ofPaul Allen) to developserverJavaapplications for web sites.[10]He was the author of "The Java Handbook", (ISBN0-07-882199-1,Osborne, 1995) and co-author ofJava: The Complete Reference,withHerbert Schildt(ISBN0-07-882231-9,Osborne, 1996)

In 1998,Walt Disney Internet Groupacquired Starwave and amalgamated it withInfoseekin theGo Networkcompany. As a result, Naughton becameexecutive vice presidentofInfoseek.

After his arrest in 1999, Naughton was fired from Infoseek.[4]

Sex crime arrest and conviction

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On Sept. 14, 1999, Naughton flew from Seattle to Los Angeles on a privateDisneyjet.[11]expecting a five-foot, blonde haired 13-year-old girl to wait on thepiernear the roller coaster, carrying a green backpack as instructed by Naughton.[2]Naughton had written to her about love and sex and that he "wanted to get [her] alone in his hotel room and have [her] strip naked for him".[2]Naughton had arranged this meeting, posing as "Hot Seattle", his online predator handle[3]in an online chat room called "dad&daughtersex."[12]The "girl" was actually an FBI agent.[6]

Two days later, he was arrested by theFBIand was charged with traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to have sex with a minor, in violation of18 U.S.C. §2423(b).[3][4][5]After a trial ended in ahung jury,Naughton struck a plea agreement where he took a reduced sentence and admitted that he traveled from Seattle to Los Angeles last September with a "dominant purpose" to engage in sexual acts with "KrisLA", an online chat buddy he believed was a 13-year-old girl.[1]He ended up serving no prison time, in exchange for working for the FBI for free for a year.[13][14]

Novel defense

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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.[14]His then-novel defense, became known as thefantasy defensefor pedophiles.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^abcDeane, Joel (March 20, 2000)."Cybersex sting: Naughton pleads guilty".ZDNet.Archived fromthe originalon March 1, 2013.Retrieved3 January2014.
  2. ^abcdYamagami, Donald S. (2000-01-01)."Prosecuting Cyber-Pedophiles: How Can Intent Be Shown in a Virtual World in Light of the Fantasy Defense?".Santa Clara Law Review.41(2).Retrieved3 January2014.
  3. ^abc"The Fantasy Defense".CBS News.2000-05-31.Retrieved2009-08-02.
  4. ^abc"Patrick Doesn't Work Here Anymore".Wired News.December 1999.Retrieved2009-08-02.
  5. ^ab"CEO: Naughton said 'I did it'".zdnet.co.uk. 1999-12-09.Retrieved2009-08-02.
  6. ^ab"National News Briefs; Executive Is Sentenced In Internet Sex Sting".New York Times.August 10, 2000.Retrieved3 January2014.
  7. ^Patrick Naughton (1997).Java Handbook.Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited.ASINB007ITC4G4.
  8. ^Patrick Naughton."Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C".Retrieved2009-08-02.
  9. ^"Java Technology: The Early Years".Sun Microsystems.Retrieved2009-08-02.
  10. ^ab"Le cadre, le piège et la loi"(in French). cyberie.qc.ca.Retrieved2009-08-02.
  11. ^Deane, Joel (March 18, 2000)."The rise and fall of Patrick Naughton".ZDNet.Retrieved3 January2014.
  12. ^Yamagami, Donald S. (2000-01-01)."Prosecuting Cyber-Pedophiles: How Can Intent Be Shown in a Virtual World in Light of the Fantasy Defense?".Santa Clara Law Review.41(2): 573.Retrieved3 January2014.
  13. ^"Patrick Naughton faces retrial".zdnet.co.uk. 2000-10-13. Archived fromthe originalon September 28, 2009.Retrieved2009-08-02.
  14. ^ab"Paper 2: Legal Treatment Of Online Identity".emoglen.law.columbia.edu. 2006-04-29.Retrieved2009-08-02.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.
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