Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich ( born 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) is an American programmer who live script, a precursor of JavaScript developed. Calibration is Chief Technical Officer since August 2005 and was dated 24 March 2014 to April 3, 2014 CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. After protests because of a donation in support of Proposition 8, a later discarded as unconstitutional California's constitutional amendment to define marriage as a relationship between a man and woman, he resigned from the post of CEO.

Biography

Brendan Eich began his professional career at Silicon Graphics, where he was active for seven years. Subsequently, he was employed for three years at Unity Micro Systems Engineering. There he worked on the kernel programming and digital signal processors ( DSP). While working at Micro Unity, he also wrote the first port of the C compiler gcc for MIPS R4000 processor.

Calibration was primarily known for his work on Netscape and Mozilla. He rose in April 1995 at Netscape Communications, working on JavaScript, which was originally only and later called Mocha Live scripts, for Netscape Navigator. In early 1998 he helped found mozilla.org ' and when AOL closed the Department of the Netscape browser in July 2003, Eich was involved in the founding of the Mozilla Foundation.

2008 calibration donated 1,000 U.S. dollars for a campaign in support of " California Proposition 8", an initiative to introduce a constitutional amendment by referendum, which should define marriage as a union between a man and woman and turned against a State same-sex marriage in California. In the 1990s he had supported the paleoconservatives politician and television commentator Pat Buchanan with a donation of U.S. $ 1,000. As a result of the contribution to the dating site OkCupid distanced from Firefox by dissuaded from its use. After public pressure calibration resigned.