Eric Bina

Early Life and Education - Born on October 25, 1964, in Champaign, Illinois - Attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1986 - Earned a master's degree in 1988 - Joined the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in 1991 as a programmer Contribution to Mosaic and Netscape - Co-created Mosaic with Marc Andreessen in 1993 - Developed the first working version of Mosaic by March 1993 - Mosaic was the first killer application that popularized the Internet - Co-founded Netscape - Inducted into the World Wide Web Hall of Fame in 1994 Recognition and Awards - Received the ACM Software System Award in 1995 - Inducted into the University of Illinois Engineering Hall of Fame in 2010 - Recognized as one of the five inaugural inductees to the World Wide Web Hall of Fame - Honored for his significant contributions to the field of software programming - Acknowledged for revolutionizing the way people access and use the Internet References - Robert Cailliau's article on WWW94 Awards from CERN - The World-Wide Web Hall of Fame listed on Best of the Web Directory - ACM Awards for software systems - Engineering IT Shared Services' Hall of Fame at grainger.illinois.edu - Various references available on Netscape.com, Propeller.com, and Open Directory Project Authority Control Databases - Eric J. Bina listed in Academics authority control database - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) database includes information on Bina - Bina's profile available on DBLP database - Scopus database contains records related to Bina's work - Wikipedia stub articles on Bina can be expanded to provide more information