Pei-Yuan Wei

Pei-Yuan Wei (* in Taiwan ) is a software developer and artist and developed ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers , in 1992 as a student at Berkeley University in California .

Its versions DX34 and DX37 were part of the lawsuit brought by Eolas against Microsoft , as they already used methods for embedding interactively executable program code in websites and this technology therefore existed before a corresponding patent (patent number 5,838,906) from Eolas Technologies. Microsoft was fined $ 521 million in August 2003, later increasing the amount to $ 565 million. In 2005, however, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered the lower court to deal with the case again.

Web links

• http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~wei/ - Pei's homepage (in English)