Brendan Eich
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| Born | 1961 (age 50–51) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Occupation | CTO, Mozilla Corporation |
| Known for | JavaScript |
Brendan Eich (
/ˈaɪk/; born 1961)[1] is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He is the chief technology officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
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[edit] Education
Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in math and computer science at Santa Clara University.[1] He received his master's degree in 1986 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
[edit] Career
Eich started his career at Silicon Graphics, working for seven years on operating system and network code.[2] He then worked for three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the first MIPS R4000 port of GCC.[2]
Eich is best known for his work on Netscape and Mozilla. He started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995, working on JavaScript (originally called Mocha, then called LiveScript) for the Netscape Navigator web browser[3]. In 2010, he wrote about JavaScript: "JS had to 'look like Java' only less so, be Java’s dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened".[4]
He then helped found mozilla.org in early 1998, serving as chief architect. When AOL shut down the Netscape browser unit in July 2003, Eich helped spin out the Mozilla Foundation.
In August 2005, after serving as Lead Technologist and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation, Eich became CTO of the newly founded Mozilla Corporation.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Steve Lohr (1996-09-09). "Part Artist, Part Hacker And Full-Time Programmer". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/09/business/part-artist-part-hacker-and-full-time-programmer.html?pagewanted=1.
- ^ a b Brendan Eich and JavaScript (about.com)
- ^ "JavaScript: General introduction". http://www.quirksmode.org/js/intro.html. Retrieved 2011-02-12. "Originally the language was called Live Script, but when it was about to be released Java had become immensely popular (and slightly hypey). At the last possible moment Netscape changed the name of its scripting language to “JavaScript”. This was done purely for marketing reasons. Worse, Eich was ordered to "make it look like Java""
- ^ Brendan Eich (2010-10-15). "Every day I learn something new… and stupid.". http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-new-and-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-1021. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
- ^ "Mozilla Foundation Forms New Organization to Further the Creation of Free, Open Source Internet Software, Including the Award-Winning Mozilla Firefox Browser". Mozilla Foundation. 2005-08-03. http://www-archive.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-08-03.html. Retrieved 2011-02-12. "Brendan Eich, a co-founder and long-time technical leader of the Mozilla project, will become the chief technical officer of the Mozilla Corporation."
- Mozilla Futures: Analysis and Proposals (Slides presented at Mozilla Developer Day on February 27, 2004; more detailed than the recent slides cited in roadmap blog)
[edit] External links
- Brendan's blog
- Brendan's Roadmap Updates (Mozilla roadmap weblog)
- Brendan Eich on the Gillmor Gang July 2004 and December 2005
- Brendan's Netscape Joke Homepage
- Computerworld Interview with Brendan Eich on JavaScript
- CNET Interview with Brendan Eich
- Tech Luminaries interview with Brendan Eich
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