Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Andreas Gal is the chief technology officer and Vice President of Engineering 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. 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) that became widely supported by AX.25 network routers.During his graduate studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg he created AspectC++, an aspect-oriented extension of C and C++ languages. 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.Gal joined Mozilla in 2008 and built TraceMonkey, the first JavaScript just-in-time compiler 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.In 2011, Gal co-founded the Boot to Gecko project, which later became Firefox OS. A number of carriers and OEMs will launch Firefox OS devices in 2013.As of 2013, Gal is the Vice President of Mobile Engineering of Mozilla.As of 2014, Gal became the CTO of Mozilla.. }
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- Andreas_Gal abstract "Andreas Gal is the chief technology officer and Vice President of Engineering 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. 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) that became widely supported by AX.25 network routers.During his graduate studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg he created AspectC++, an aspect-oriented extension of C and C++ languages. 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.Gal joined Mozilla in 2008 and built TraceMonkey, the first JavaScript just-in-time compiler 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.In 2011, Gal co-founded the Boot to Gecko project, which later became Firefox OS. A number of carriers and OEMs will launch Firefox OS devices in 2013.As of 2013, Gal is the Vice President of Mobile Engineering of Mozilla.As of 2014, Gal became the CTO of Mozilla.".