Brendan Eich

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Brendan Eich (* 1961 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American programmer who developed LiveScript , a forerunner to JavaScript . Eich was Chief Technical Officer from August 2005 and CEO of Mozilla Corporation from March 24, 2014 to April 3, 2014 . He is the CEO of Brave Software Inc.

biography

Brendan Eich began his professional career at Silicon Graphics , where he worked for seven years. He then worked for MicroUnity Systems Engineering for three years . There he dealt with kernel programming and digital signal processors (DSP) . While working at MicroUnity, he also wrote the first port of the C compiler gcc for the MIPS-R4000 processor .

Eich was best known for his work on Netscape and Mozilla . He joined Netscape Communications in April 1995 and worked on JavaScript, which was originally called Mocha and later LiveScript , for the Netscape Navigator. In early 1998 he helped found mozilla.org and when AOL closed the Netscape browser department in July 2003, Eich was involved in founding the Mozilla Foundation .

In 2008, Eich donated US $ 1,000 to a campaign in support of California Proposition 8 , an initiative to introduce a constitutional amendment by referendum to define marriage as the link between men and women and to oppose state same-sex marriage in California . In the 1990s, he supported paleoconservative politician and TV commentator Pat Buchanan with a donation of $ 1,000. Eich donated for Ron Paul . When Eich was named CEO of Mozilla Corporation in 2014, these donations came under renewed criticism. After public pressure, Eich resigned from office after a few days.

In April 2016, as CEO of Brave Software Inc., he defended the concept of the Brave browser against attacks by the Newspaper Association of America .

literature

  • Peter Seibel: Coders at Work: Important programmers and their success stories . mitp, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8266-9103-4 , Chapter 4: Brendan Eich , p. 129–158 (English: Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming . 2009. Translated by Reinhard Engel).

Web links

Commons : Brendan Eich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mitchell Baker: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO. In: The Mozilla Blog. Mozilla Foundation, April 3, 2014, accessed July 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ Proposition 8: Who gave in the gay marriage battle? In: Davan Maharaj (ed.): Los Angeles Times . Tribune Publishing, ISSN  0458-3035 , Politics ( HTML ).
  3. ↑ Hakan Tanriverdi: Criticism of the new Mozilla boss Brendan Eich. Disastrous donation , Süddeutsche.de , April 1, 2014; Gay Marriage: Victory for Gays in California , Time Online , Aug. 5, 2010.
  4. ↑ James Ball: Mozilla CEO insists he won't resign over 'private' support for gay marriage ban . In: The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Ltd., Manchester April 2014, OCLC 60623878 .
  5. ^ Johannes Kuhn: Controversial donations: Mozilla boss resigns after only eleven days . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag, April 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 ( HTML ).
  6. ↑ Stephen Shankland: Newspapers to Brave browser: Don't mess with our ads - or else. In: cnet.com. CNET, April 8, 2016, accessed July 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Eich, Brendan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American programmer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh