Andreas Gal

Andreas Gal
Born 1976 (age 39–40)[1]
Szeged[1]
Nationality German
Occupation CEO , Silk Labs
Website andreasgal.com

Andreas Gal was the former chief technology officer at Mozilla. He is most notable for his work on several open source projects and Mozilla technologies.

Gal was born in Szeged, Hungary and grew up in Lübeck, Germany.[1] During his high school time he worked on various open source AX.25 network stacks and designed a routing protocol for ham radio network nodes (INP3[2]) that became widely supported by AX.25 network routers.[3][4][5]

During his graduate studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg he was a codesigner of AspectC++, an aspect-oriented extension of C and C++ languages.[6] He later went on to obtain his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His thesis introduced the concept of Tracing just-in-time compilation of high-level languages using trace trees.[7]

Gal joined Mozilla in 2008 and built TraceMonkey, the first JavaScript just-in-time compiler[8] in a web browser, only weeks before Google announced Chrome and the V8 JavaScript engine. After his work on TraceMonkey, Gal became the Director of Research at Mozilla. A notable research project he started was PDF.js, a PDF renderer in JavaScript and HTML5, which now replaces the Adobe PDF plug-in in Firefox.[9]

In 2011, Gal co-founded the Boot to Gecko project, which later became Firefox OS.[10] A number of carriers and OEMs will launch Firefox OS devices in 2013.[11]

As of 2013, Gal was appointed the Vice President of Mobile Engineering of Mozilla.[12] In April 2014, Gal became the CTO of Mozilla,[13] and he left Mozilla in June 2015.[14]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Iris Quirin. "Andreas Gal - Der Freiheitskämpfer" (in German). Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Inter Node Protocol 3".
  3. ↑ "INP3 support for Linux".
  4. ↑ "JNOS news".
  5. ↑ "(X)Net user manual" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "AspectC++: Language Proposal and Prototype Implementation".
  7. ↑ "HotpathVM: an effective JIT compiler for resource-constrained Andreas Gal, Christian W. Probst, Michael Franz - Proceeding VEE '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual execution environments doi:10.1145/1134760.1134780.
  8. ↑ "TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed".
  9. ↑ "Mozilla Kills The PDF Plugin In Firefox 19".
  10. ↑ Gal, Andreas (2011-07-25). "Booting to the web". mozilla.dev.platform (Mailing list). Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  11. ↑ Rodriguez, Salvador (2013-02-26). "Firefox OS to launch this summer; big phone makers pledge support". Los Angeles Times.
  12. ↑ "Andreas Gal's Linkedin page".
  13. ↑ "Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal".
  14. ↑ "New Adventure". Andreas Gal. Retrieved 2015-06-05.


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