who's who in computer science Brendan Eich Brendan Eich is an american technologist and is also the creator of the JavaScript programming language, he is a good technologist that created the JavaScript, he also founded the Mozilla project. Born : July 4, 1961 (age 56), Pittsburgh, PA Spouse : Eleanor Eich Known for : JavaScript Education : University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , Santa Clara University He started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995. Eich originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser",but his Netscape superiors insisted that the language resemble Java in terms of its syntax. The result was a language that had much of the functionality of Scheme, the object orientation of Self, and the syntax of Java. The first version was completed in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule, and was called Mocha, but renamed LiveScript...