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Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich is Chief Architect of the Mozilla project. Brendan is widely recognized for his key role in the growth of the Web as the lead technologist for Mozilla. Among his numerous contributions to web innovations, Brendan invented JavaScript (ECMAScript) in 1995, the most widely used programming language on the Internet. Brendan co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998.
With Brendan's leadership, Mozilla launched the innovative Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client now used by more than 60 million people world wide. Brendan's Mozilla project contributions continue to drive further innovations in web technology such as E4X (ECMAScript for XML).
Brendan works at the Mozilla Foundation and is also on its Board of Directors.
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Mike Shaver
Mike Shaver is a founding member of mozilla.org, and lead technologist. In the Mozilla world, Mike meddles in most everything, from licensing and organizational issues to platform architecture and software development. His greatest contribnution to the Mozilla project to date is (??)
Mike contributes to the Mozilla project as an employee of Oracle's Open Client group, where he works on improvements to Mozilla technology and applications.
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Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger is a lead developer for Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser. Early and significant contributions to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation span the scheduling of milestones to hands-on creativity in the technical evolution of specific products and capabilities. Ben leads the development for the Extension system, Software Update, Windows shell integration, the new Download system, the new Options UI (the new permission manager UI for XPInstall and blocking pop-ups). Ben was the original author of Mozilla Suite code for the buggy bookmarks manager UI, save-page-with-images and the original Classic theme that later gave rise to much of the icon set Qute and later Winstripe.
Ben tracks bugs, schedules milestones, maintains home pages and acts as a liaison between Mozilla and other groups. He led initial marketing efforts that have culminated in more than 50 million Firefox downloads as of May 2005. Ben contributes to the Mozilla project as an employee of Google Inc.
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Brian Ryner
Brian Ryner is a key developer for Mozilla Firefox. One of his early forays into the Mozilla project was mousewheel scrolling support in 2000. He was also invaluable in the development of the Gecko layout engine, which remains a component of the Firefox Web browser today.
Among Brian’s other ongoing contributions to Mozilla code: improved performance of page layout and rendering, development of the XForms extension for Firefox/Mozilla, application-level features such as the Linux installer, GNOME integration and password manager, and development of the fast-back feature.
Brian is employed by Google Inc. but continues his work on the Mozilla project.
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Axel Hecht
A member of Mozilla Europe’s board of directors, Axel Hecht started contributing to Mozilla in 1999, working on XSLT and is module owner of RDF since 2004. His current obsession/focus is (???)
Alex received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Stuttgart and his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kiel. He is now with the department of Applied Mathematics, Humboldt University, Berlin.
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Robert O'Callahan
Robert O'Callahan got involved in Mozilla in 1999 when he should have been working on his PhD thesis. He worked as a volunteer for several years, focused on fixing bugs and implementing features in the layout and rendering core of Gecko. Smooth scrolling, justified text, and multi-column layout are some of the features he created. He is currently based in New Zealand, working full time on Mozilla for Novell. He is currently focsued on Mozilla's new graphics infrastructure.