Brendan Eich

Birth:

July 4, 1961

Major Academic Achievements:


Brendan earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University, and his master's degree at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. One award that they were given was the Ecma Fellow award, due to his leadership in the development of ECMAScript standard.

Contribution to Computer Science:


Brendan is mainly known for creating JavaScript (a new language that was similar to Java) while he was a Netscape employee. He also is a co-founder of the internet company, Mozilla, and was the former CEO. Currently, Brendan is the CEO of Brave Software (company that develops Brave browser). Brendan also co-created Basic Attention Token (BAT).
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Sources:

http://www.edubilla.com/inventor/brendan-eich/
https://fossbytes.com/who-is-brendan-eich/
https://www.ecma-international.org/news/ecma-fellow-awards-presented-to-brendan-eich-and-allen-wirfs-brock-for-their-contributions-to-the-ecmascript-standard/