Brendan Eich
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Brendan Eich (born July 4, 1961) is an American technologist and programmer of the JavaScript programming language.
He co-founded the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, and spent time as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer and briefly as its CEO.
He is the CEO of Brave Software.
Early life
Eich grew up in Pittsburgh, Maryland, and Palo Alto, as well as Palo Alto, and Ellwood P. Cubberley High School, graduating in 1979. He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University, and he earned his master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1985. Eich is Roman Catholic.
He began his career at Silicon Graphics, spending seven years on operating system and network code. He then worked for three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering, writing microkernel and DSP code.
Career
In April 1995, Eich began working at Netscape Communications Corporation. Eich originally intended to include Scheme "in the browser," but his Netscape colleagues insisted that the language's syntax resembles that of Java. As a result, Eich created a language that had a large amount of the functionality of Scheme, the object-orientation of Self, and Java's syntax. He completed the first version in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta Beta release date, but LiveScript was renamed in September 1995 and then published in a joint statement with Sun Microsystems that it was named JavaScript in December. At Netscape Communications, he created the first SpiderMonkey engine for the Netscape Navigator browser. This engine was included in the Netscape base code when Mozilla took over the Netscape base code in 1998, but it wasn't written in the C programming language. It was then updated in JavaScript 1.5 to conform with the ECMA-262 specification. Eich continued to monitor SpiderMonkey's production, as well as Navigator's specific implementation of JavaScript.
Eich co-founded the Mozilla free and open source software project with Jamie Zawinski and others in early 1998, designing the mozilla.org website, which was supposed to handle open-source contributions to the Netscape source code. He served as Mozilla's chief architect. In 1999, AOL acquired Netscape. Eich helped the Mozilla Foundation after AOL's Netscape browser unit was shut down in July 2003.
Eich became the Mozilla Foundation's chief technical officer (CTO) in August 2005, after serving as a lead technologist and as a member of the board of directors of the Mozilla Foundation. "Eich" the Mozilla SpiderMonkey module, its JavaScript engine, until he sold the Mozilla SpiderMonkey module, its JavaScript engine, to Dave Mandolin in 2011.
Mozilla announced Eich as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation on March 24, 2014. The appointment sparked widespread outrage due to Eich's previous political contributions, particularly a $5,000 donation to California Prosex 8, which called for the prohibition of same-sex marriages in California, and Prodigal's $2,100 in support of Project 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010. The Wall Street Journal first announced that half of Mozilla's board (Gary Kovacs, John Lilly, and Ellen Siminoff) had stepped down, leaving Mitchell Baker, Reid Hoffman, and Katharina Borchert in protest against his upcoming appointment. Only Lilly left after being appointed due to Eich's appointment, according to CNET later. Lilly told The New York Times, "I left rather than appoint him" and refused to elaborate further.
Eich expressed "pain for causing pain" on March 26, 2014 and pledged to "work with LGBT organizations and allies" at Mozilla. Some of the activists started an online protest against Eich, with a note from Firefox's donation prompting Firefox users to switch to a different browser (but giving them a link to continue with Firefox). More than 50,000 signatures had been collected by CREDO Mobile demanding that Eich resign.
After 11 days as CEO, Eich resigned on April 3, 2014 and left Mozilla due to his opposition to same-sex marriage. "Under the present circumstances, I cannot be a good leader," he wrote on his personal blog. According to a news release from Mozilla, board members tried to convince Eich to remain in the company in a different capacity, but that he had to break ties for the time being.
Eich is the CEO of Brave Software, an Internet browser platform business that raised $2.5 million in early funding from angel investors. The company introduced developer versions of its open-source, Chromium-based and privacy-focused Brave web browser in January 2016, which blocks ads and trackers, as well as Tor-connected tabs.
Eich, a brave web developer, co-created the Basic Attention Token (BAT), a cryptocurrency designed for use in the Brave browser. On May 31, 2017, BAT conducted its ICO, raising $35 million.