Eric Bina

Eric Bina (* October 1964 ) is a US -American programmers , known as the developer of Mosaic browser with Marc Andreessen .

Bina studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a bachelor's degree in 1986 and a master's degree in 1988. In 1991 he became a programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he worked with Andreessen (then still a student) in December 1992 started programming a web browser with a prototype that was completed in March 1993 and posted on the Internet by both of them. The original Unix version was soon followed by those for the PC and Mac. Andreessen founded Netscape Communications with Bina and others in 1994 , which took over the further marketing and development of the Mosaic successor Netscape. Bina later left Netscape and lived in Urbana, Illinois and later in Singapore .

In 1997 he and Andreessen received the W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE. In 1995 both (with Tim Berners-Lee , Robert Cailliau ) received the ACM Software System Award and in 2010 they were inducted into the University of Illinois Engineering Hall of Fame and in 1994 into the World Wide Web Hall of Fame.

Bina is married to Marianne Winslet, a professor of computer science at the UIUC, and has one daughter.

Web links

• Bina, Andreessen as Inventor of the Week, MIT

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Bina, World of Computer Science
2. ↑ At the first WWW conference at CERN. Biography of Cailliau