The Ecma Fellow award recognizes selected Ecma individuals who have served Ecma for a long time in an exceptionally outstanding fashion. Ecma grants those individuals the status of Ecma Fellow who, if they choose to, would be able at no cost continue to participate in Ecma work as Emeritus members.
The Ecma Fellow award honoured Donald Baines for his significant contributions to the development of Ecma acoustics standards. Donald Baines became the first Chair of TC26 when it was formed in 1980 and he served as either Chair or Vice-Chair for each of the 17 years he was a member of TC26 until his retirement in 1996. He was a co-author or significant contributor and editor or co-editor of every TC26 standard and technical report from 1980 to 1996. Donald Baines designed and then managed the ICL Acoustics Laboratory in Manchester, England from 1970s until his retirement in 1996.
The Ecma Fellow award honoured Kei Yamashita for his leadership and outstanding contributions to the development of Ecma standards.
At Ecma, Kei Yamashita has a long and active participation in the work of TC17, TC31, TC38, TC44 and TC51, but also in the GA, CC (ExeCom), as a member of the management and as Chairman of several TCs. He made major contributions to the development of magnetic tape, optical disk and access systems standardization. He was President of Ecma between 2015 and 2017. His participation spread over 30 years. Today, he continues to participate and serves as Vice-President, Treasurer and Chairman of TC51.
Kei Yamashita joined Hitachi’s Consumer Electronics Research Center in 1972 and progressed through several technical roles to the R&D Group Chief Architect Office when he retired in 2019. Kei Yamashita is a graduate of Keio University in Tokyo and received the prize of the Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry at the industrial standard awards ceremony in 2016.
The Ecma Fellow award honoured Brendan Eich for his leadership in the creation of the ECMAScript (JavaScript) standard and for his outstanding contributions to the development of the ECMAScript standard.
Brendan Eich is the co-founder and CEO of Brave Software (https://brave.com/) and the Basic Attention Token (https://basicattentiontoken.org/).
Brendan Eich previously served as CTO, then CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. Prior to that, he co-founded the Mozilla project and foundation. While at Mozilla, Brendan Eich helped launch the award-winning Firefox web browser.
Brendan Eich is also the inventor of JavaScript, the Internet’s most widely used programming language.
The Ecma Fellow award honoured Allen Wirfs-Brock for major contributions and his active participation to the development of the ECMAScript standard.
Allen Wirfs-Brock is an expert in programming languages and their implementation with broad experience developing compilers, virtual machines, programming environments, and complete computer systems. He was a technical innovator and business leader during the emergence of object-oriented programming technology and was deeply involved with the development of the Smalltalk programming language. From 2009-2015 he was the project editor of the ECMAScript Language Specification, the standard that defines the JavaScript programming language.
Allen Wirfs-Brock has been a strategic technologist, researcher, software architect, startup advisor, assembly language programmer, product developer, and manager. He founded two successful companies and has made major contributions to the design of both the JavaScript and Smalltalk programming languages. He has been a technical leader and contributor at Mozilla, Microsoft, Instantiations, Parcplace-Digitalk, and Tektronix.
Allen Wirfs-Brock was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Engineer (2009). He has twice been a recipient of an Ecma Award of Appreciation for his contributions to the Ecma International standards organization.
The Ecma recognition award recognizes individuals for their dedication and support of Ecma.
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Luoming Zhang
Ecma Treasurer and ExeCom member from Huawei
2025
Touradj Ebrahimi
Ecma ExeCom member and major contributor to Ecma TC31 & TC32 from EPFL
2025
Hyun Kahng
Ecma liaison officer from SC 6 and chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6
2025
Robert Palmer
Major contributor to Ecma TC39 from Bloomberg
2025
Michael Saboff
Ecma ExeCom chair from Apple
2025
Taku Hoshizawa
Ecma TC31 chair and editor of ECMA-119, ECMA-413 and ECMA TR/111 from Hitachi
2023
Myles Borins
Ecma Vice-President, member of the ExeCom and TC39 co-chair from Microsoft/GitHub
2023
Shane F. Carr
Ecma TC39-TG2 convenor and major contributor from Google
2023
Mark Miller
Major contributor to Ecma TC39 & TC53 from Agoric Systems
2023
Olaf Wilke
Major contributor to Ecma TC38 from Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
2023
Rex Jaeschke
Ecma TC45 & TC46 chair and editor of ECMA-376 from Microsoft
2022
Isabelle Valet-Harper
Ecma President and member of the ExeCom from Microsoft
2022
Koji Fusa
Ecma ExeCom member from GVE Ltd.
2022
Joel Marcey
Ecma Vice-President and TC49 chair from Meta
2022
Aki Rose Braun
Ecma TC39 co-chair from PayPal
2021
André Bargull
Major contributor to Ecma TC39 from Mozilla
2021
Carol Eidt
Ecma TC49 chair from Microsoft
2021
Jordan Harband
Ecma TC39 editor of ECMA-262 from Coinbase
2021
Toyoshige Nohnishi
Ecma TC46 vice-chair from Konica Minolta
2021
Robert Hellweg
Ecma TC26 secretary from Hellweg Acoustics
2020
Shouichi Nakano
Ecma TC38-TG1 convenor from Konica Minolta
2020
Charles Oppenheimer
Ecma TC26 chair from HP
2020
Caroline Arms
Active participant to the development of ECMA‑376 from the US Library of Congress
2020
Leonardo Balter
Ecma TC39 editor of ECMA-402 from Salesforce.com
2020
Yulia Startsev
Ecma TC39 co-chair from Mozilla Foundation
2019
Masakazu Ito
Ecma TC51 editor from Hitachi
2019
Yoshinobu Mitsuhashi
Major contributor to Ecma TC31 from the Archive Disc Test Center
2019
Jory Burson
Major contributor to Ecma TC39 from Bocoup
2019
Daniel Ehrenberg
Ecma TC39 vice-chair from Igalia
2019