Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich is a
computer programmer. He created the
JavaScript programming language. He is the
Chief Technology Officer at the
Mozilla Corporation.
Brendan Eich attended the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his
master's degree in 1986.
Eich started his career at
Silicon Graphics, working for seven years on
operating system and network code. He then worked for three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing
microkernel and
DSP code, and doing the first MIPS R4000 port of
gcc.
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. 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, Brendan became CTO of the newly founded Mozilla Corporation.
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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)
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Innovators of the Net: Brendan Eich and JavaScript (
Marc Andreessen, Netscape TechVision, 24 Jun 1998)
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Brendan Eich and JavaScript (about.com)
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Brendan's Roadmap Updates (Mozilla roadmap weblog)
* Brendan Eich on the Gillmor Gang
July 2004 and
December 2005*
Brendan's Netscape Joke Homepage
