Essentials of Javascript - Cultural View
Essentials of Javascript - Cultural View
Essentials of Javascript - Cultural View
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Brendan Eich 85<br />
Brendan Eich<br />
Brendan Eich<br />
Born 1961 (age 48–49)<br />
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<br />
Alma mater University <strong>of</strong> Illinois at Urbana–Champaign<br />
Occupation CTO, Mozilla Corporation<br />
Known for JavaScript<br />
Brendan Eich (pronounced /ˈaɪk/) (born 1961 [1] ) is a computer programmer and creator <strong>of</strong> the JavaScript scripting<br />
language. He is the chief technology <strong>of</strong>ficer at the Mozilla Corporation.<br />
Education<br />
Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in math and computer science at Santa Clara University. [1] He received<br />
his master's degree in 1986 from the University <strong>of</strong> Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<br />
Career<br />
Eich started his career at Silicon Graphics, working for seven years on operating system and network code. He then<br />
worked for three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the first<br />
MIPS R4000 port <strong>of</strong> gcc.<br />
Eich is best known for his work on Netscape and Mozilla. He started work at Netscape Communications Corporation<br />
in April 1995, working on JavaScript (originally called Mocha, then called LiveScript) for the Netscape Navigator<br />
web browser. He then helped found mozilla.org in early 1998, serving as chief architect. When AOL shut down the<br />
Netscape browser unit in July 2003, Eich helped spin out the Mozilla Foundation.<br />
In August 2005, after serving as Lead Technologist and as a member <strong>of</strong> the Board <strong>of</strong> Directors <strong>of</strong> the Mozilla<br />
Foundation, Brendan became CTO <strong>of</strong> the newly founded Mozilla Corporation.
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