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Andreas Gal

Andreas Gal

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

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Gal was born in Szeged, Hungary[1] and grew up in Lübeck, Germany.[2] During high school he worked on various open source AX.25 network stacks and designed a routing protocol for ham radio network nodes (INP3[3]) that became widely supported by AX.25 network routers.[4][5][6]

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.[7] 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.[8]

Gal joined Mozilla in 2008 and built TraceMonkey, the first JavaScript just-in-time compiler[9] 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.[10]

In 2011, Gal co-founded the Boot to Gecko project, which later became Firefox OS.[11]

In 2013, Gal was appointed the Vice President of Mobile Engineering of Mozilla.[12] In April 2014, Gal became the CTO of Mozilla.[13] In June 2015 he left Mozilla,[14] co-founding the Internet of Things start-up Silk Labs with two other members of the Firefox OS team (however, Silk Labs does not use Mozilla technologies).[15] Also in 2015, Gal became an adviser at Acadine Technologies; a startup newly founded by Li Gong (former president of Mozilla Corporation) which was to develop software based on Firefox OS.[16] As of 2018, Gal is an employee of Apple Inc.

References

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    Gal, Andreas (2006). Efficient bytecode verification and compilation in a virtual machine (Thesis). University of California, Irvine. Docket AAI3243940. ProQuest 305372416. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
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    Iris Quirin. "Andreas Gal - Der Freiheitskämpfer" (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-04-26. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
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    "Inter Node Protocol 3". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14.
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    "INP3 support for Linux". Archived from the original on 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
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    "JNOS news". Archived from the original on 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
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    "(X)Net user manual" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-19. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
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    "AspectC++: Language Proposal and Prototype Implementation". Archived from the original on 2013-04-09.
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    "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.
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    "TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed".
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    "Mozilla Kills The PDF Plugin In Firefox 19". Archived from the original on 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
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    Gal, Andreas (2011-07-25). "Booting to the web". mozilla.dev.platform (Mailing list). Retrieved 2011-11-20.
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    "Andreas Gal's Linkedin page".
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    "Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal".
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    "New Adventure". Andreas Gal. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
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    Shankland, Stephen (2016-08-21). "Startup aims to make home devices smart enough to anticipate what you need". CNET. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  16. [16]
    Shankland, Stephen (2015-12-10). "Startup picks up the torch for troubled Firefox OS". CNET. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
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