Brendan Eich
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Brendan Eich, official Mozilla Foundation photograph, August 21, 2012
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July 4, 1961 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Santa Clara University |
| Known for | JavaScript |
| Website | brendaneich |
Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/; born July 4, 1961) is an American technologist and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, and served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer and briefly its chief executive officer. He is the CEO of Brave Software.
Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University. He received his master's degree in 1985 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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 very first MIPS R4000 port of GCC.
He started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995. Having originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser", Eich was instead commissioned to create a new language that resembled Java, JavaScript for the Netscape Navigator Web browser. The first version was completed in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule, and was called Mocha, but renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and later JavaScript in the same month. Eich continued to oversee the development of SpiderMonkey, the specific implementation of JavaScript in Navigator.
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