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Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich, official Mozilla Foundation photograph, 21 August 2012
Born	1961 (age 63–64) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Occupation(s)	CEO, Mozilla Corporation
Known for	JavaScript
Website	brendaneich.com

Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/; born 1961) is an American computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He is the chief executive officer at the Mozilla Corporation.

Education

Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University. He received his master's degree in 1986 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Career

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, Eich became CTO of the newly founded Mozilla Corporation. In March 2014, he became the CEO.

Eich has contributed to the creation of the Rust programming language at Mozilla.

Stance against gay marriage

Eich donated $1,000 in 2008 to the campaign supporting California Proposition 8, which was recorded in a public database with Mozilla's name attached as his employer. This reached public notability in March 2012, being controversial in the tech sphere and the gay press both US and internationally, and the Twitter reaction itself achieving press noteworthiness.

References

1. ^ Steve Lohr (1996-09-09). "Part Artist, Part Hacker And Full-Time Programmer". New York Times.
2. ^ Brendan Eich and JavaScript (about.com)
3. "JavaScript: General introduction". 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"
4. "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. 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.
5. "Mozilla Leadership Changes". Retrieved 24 March 2014.
6. Original Rust authors | GitHub
7. "Proposition 8: Who gave in the gay marriage battle?". Los Angeles Times.
8. Faircloth, Kelly. (2012-10-05) Tech Celeb Makes Prop-8 Donation; Internet Goes Berserk. Betabeat. Retrieved on 2014-02-20.
9. L.A. Times: JavaScript Inventor Gave $1,000 To Pro-Prop 8 Forces / Queerty. Queerty.com (2012-04-04). Retrieved on 2014-02-20.
10. JavaScript inventor gave $1,000 to support California's gay marriage ban. Pinknews.co.uk (2012-04-04). Retrieved on 2014-02-20.
11. Netburn, Deborah (2012-04-04). "Brendan Eich's Prop. 8 contribution gets Twittersphere buzzing". LA Times. Retrieved 2012-04-17.

External links

• 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)
• 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

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• People from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• SGI people
• Santa Clara University alumni
• University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign alumni
• Netscape people
• American technology chief executives