[Colloq] Speaker Brendan Eich TOMORROW

[Patricia Freeman]

Brendan Eich will be speaking tomorrow, 4/16 in West Village.
*ROOM LOCATION TO FOLLOW*

Title: Securing the Open Web

Speaker: Brendan Eich

Date: 4/16/08, 
Time: 4 - 5 PM,
Location: TBA

Abstract: We will speak about security in modern web applications.
 Ajax applications, in particular mash-ups, are posing new and
difficult challenges for security. These issues often form at the
intersection of systems, security, and programming languages. We
will discuss the development of open web standards such as JavaScript
and the DOM and how security figures into the future of these technologies.

Bio: Brendan Eich is CTO of the Mozilla Corp. and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet's most widely used programming language. He also co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect. Eich helped launch the award-winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client in December 2004. Today, Eich's central focus is guiding the future technical work to keep Mozilla vital and competitive. In the greater Web community, Eich remains dedicated to driving innovation in Internet technology with his work in JavaScript and with the Mozilla platform. In August 2005, Eich became CTO of the more recently founded Mozilla Corp. He has also been a board member of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. He holds a Bachelor of Science in math and computer science from Santa Clara University and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Illinois.