On March 24, 2014, Mozilla made the decision to appoint Eich as CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Eich continued to "own" the Mozilla SpiderMonkey module, its JavaScript engine, until he passed on the ownership of it to Dave Mandolin in 2011.
In August 2005, after serving as a lead technologist and as a member of the board of directors of the Mozilla Foundation, Eich became chief technical officer (CTO) of the newly founded Mozilla Corporation, meant to be the Mozilla Foundation's for-profit arm.
After AOL shut down the Netscape browser unit in July 2003, Eich helped spin out the Mozilla Foundation. In early 1998, Eich co-founded the free and open source software project Mozilla with Jamie Zawinski and others, creating the website, which was meant to manage open-source contributions to the Netscape source code. Eich continued to oversee the development of SpiderMonkey, the specific implementation of JavaScript in Navigator. It was then changed in JavaScript 1.5 to comply with the ECMA-262 standard. When Mozilla inherited the Netscape base code in 1998, it included this engine, which was written in the C programming language. Simultaneously, he designed the first SpiderMonkey engine for the Netscape Navigator browser at Netscape Communications.
He completed the first version in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule, and was called Mocha, but renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and finally in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems it was named JavaScript in December. As a result, Eich devised a language that had much of the functionality of Scheme, the object-orientation of Self, and the syntax of Java. Eich originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser", but his Netscape superiors insisted that the language's syntax resemble that of Java. Career Netscape Įich started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995. He then worked for three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code. He began his career at Silicon Graphics, working for seven years on operating system and network code. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University, and he received his master's degree in 1985 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Cubberley High School, graduating in the class of 1979. 2.2.1 Appointment to CEO and resignationĮich grew up in Pittsburgh Gaithersburg, Maryland and Palo Alto, and he attended Ellwood P.
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