Douglas Crockford

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Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford at the "Browser Wars: Episode II Attack of the DOMs" event on 2007-02-28
Website crockford.com

Douglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! He is well known for his work in introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He has also worked on the computerization of media at Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount. He became something of a cult figure on videogame oriented listservs in the early 1990s after he posted his memoir "The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion" to a videogaming bulletin board; the memoir documented his efforts to censor the computer game Maniac Mansion to Nintendo's satisfaction so that they could release it as a cartridge, and Crockford's mounting frustrations as Nintendo's demands became more obscure and confusing (for example, demanding that the word "suck"--in reference to a machine suctioning-- be removed for fear that it would be construed as a reference to oral sex).^[1] Crockford was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities (also known as Communities.com) from 1993 to 2001, and the founder and CTO of State Software (also known as Veil Networks) from 2001 to 2002. Crockford is the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts.