Andreas Gal
Andreas Gal (* 1976 in Szeged ) is a Hungarian-German computer scientist and a former executive at Mozilla .
Life
He was born in Szeged and grew up in Lübeck .
During his studies at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , he played a key role in the development of AspectC ++ , an aspect-oriented extension of C ++. He then earned a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine .
Since 2008 he worked at Mozilla, where he developed TraceMonkey , the first JavaScript - just-in-time-compiler . Later, as research director at Mozilla, he started the PDF.js and Boot2Gecko projects , which later resulted in Firefox OS .
From March 2014 to June 2015 he was the successor to Brendan Eich as CTO at Mozilla. Then he switched to a startup .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Iris Quirin: Andreas Gal - The freedom fighter . Archived from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
- ↑ AspectC ++: Language Proposal and Prototype Implementation . Retrieved December 4, 2014.
- ↑ TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed . Retrieved December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Mozilla Kills The PDF Plugin In Firefox 19 . Archived from the original on November 26, 2014. Retrieved on December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Andreas Gal: Booting to the web . July 25, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal April 24, 2014
- ^ Ferdinand Thommes: Reorganization: CTO Andreas Gal leaves Mozilla after seven years. In: ComputerBase . June 7, 2015, accessed June 7, 2015 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gal, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-German computer scientist, Chief Technical Officer at Mozilla |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szeged |