Jamie Zawinski is best known for his role in the creation of Netscape Navigator, Netscape Mail, Lucid Emacs, Mozilla.
10 Facts About Jamie Zawinski
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Jamie Zawinski is the proprietor of DNA Lounge, a nightclub and live music venue in San Francisco.
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Jamie Zawinski then worked at AI startup Expert Technologies, Inc followed by Robert Wilensky and Peter Norvig's AI research group at UC Berkeley, working on natural language processing.
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Lucid decided to use GNU Emacs as the text editor for their IDE due to its free license, popularity, and extensibility, and Jamie Zawinski led that project.
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Jamie Zawinski still maintains it, with new releases coming out several times a year.
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Jamie Zawinski came up with the name "Mozilla" during a staff meeting, as a reference to Godzilla and a portmanteau of "Mosaic killer".
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Jamie Zawinski purchased the nightclub in 1999 for approximately 5 million dollars and it was re-opened in July 2001, a process which he documented extensively in a blog named "DNA Sequencing".
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In 2000, Jamie Zawinski starred in the 60-minute-long PBS documentary Code Rush, which chronicles the creation of Mozilla.
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Jamie Zawinski appears in several video installations at the Computer History Museum's exhibit, Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing.
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Jamie Zawinski was featured in Sleep Mode: The Art of the Screensaver, a gallery exhibition curated by Rafael Rozendaal at Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut in 2017.