Thomas Reardon

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Thomas "TR" Reardon (* 1969 ) is an American computational neuroscientologist and CEO and co-founder of CTRL-labs . As a software developer at Microsoft, he made a significant contribution to the development of Internet Explorer , which was at times (early to mid- 2000s ) the most widely used web browser .

Childhood and youth

Reardon grew up in New Hampshire in an Irish Catholic community. He is one of 18 siblings, 8 of whom are adopted. Reardon attended math and science classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while in high school . When he was 16, he moved to North Carolina .

Early career

While in North Carolina, Reardon co-founded a startup at the age of 19. After taking over the startup, he met Bill Gates and worked for 10 years as a program manager for Windows 95 and Windows 98 projects at Microsoft.

At times, Reardon was the sole member of Microsoft's Internet Explorer development team. He served as program manager and architect for Internet Explorer up to version 4. In particular, he delivered the first implementation of CSS in Internet Explorer 3 (IE3). IE3 was the first incarnation of Explorer to seriously compete with Netscape Navigator , which was the most popular browser until then. In 1996 he had the idea of ​​bundling Internet Explorer with the Microsoft Windows operating system. During his career at Microsoft, Internet Explorer surpassed Netscape Navigator as the most widely used web browser in the late 1990s and early 2000s, known as the browser war . Reardon was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and worked as a representative of Microsoft with W3C and other standardization organizations to set many of the standards and precedents that affected the World Wide Web . Reardon was one of the earliest proponents and influencers of HTML4 , CSS and XML and designed the first commercial implementations of these programming languages .

As a result of the browser war with Netscape, Microsoft got into an antitrust dispute with the United States in 1998 ( United States v. Microsoft Corp. ) . Reardon expressed disaffection with Microsoft after the Netscape ordeal and eventually decided to start a wireless networking startup called Avogadro.

Reardon later moved to OpenWave , a mobile software company, where he served as general manager and then vice president. Most recently he was appointed Technical Director ; a position he held until 2004. At OpenWave he worked on the development of the first mobile web browser.

In 2003, the MIT Technology Review named Reardon, then 34, one of its top innovators under the age limit of 35; an annual list that recognizes people for "accomplishments that can dramatically affect the world as we know it".

academic career

In 2004, Reardon went back to college and studied Classics at Columbia University School of General Studies. According to his own statement, a conversation with the physicist Freeman Dyson inspired him to expand his worldview.

In 2008, Reardon graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a BA in Literature and Classical Languages. In 2010, he received a Master of Science degree in Neurobiology from Duke University . Reardon graduated in 2016 with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University . His doctoral supervisors include Thomas Jessell and Attila Losonczy .

CTRL-labs

The flagship of the CTRL-Lab has been described by TechCrunch as the " API for the brain" and by CNBC as the "bracelet with which people can control machines with their thoughts".

In February 2019, CTRL-Labs announced it had raised $ 28 million in a funding round from Google Ventures , the Amazon Alexa Fund, Lux Capital, Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Breyer Capital and Fuel Capital. This increased the invested chapter in CTRL-Labs to $ 67 million US dollars.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Reardon and CTRL-Labs are building an API for the brain ( en-US ) Retrieved on March 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b  (May 29, 2012). 2012 School of General Studies Class Day Ceremony .
  3. ^ A b Neural Interfaces and the Future of Human-Computer Interaction | Thomas Reardon ( en )
  4. ↑ a b c d GS Class Day speaker swapped computers for classics . In: Columbia Spectator , April 20, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2015. 
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Reardon, 34 . MIT Technology Review. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  6. ^ Microsoft and Netscape Take Battle to Distributed Object Front . In: Network World , July 29, 1996. 
  7. ↑ a b Start-up CEO reveals little about company's big wireless dreams . In: Infoworld , November 6, 2000. 
  8. ↑ Web group fights for HTML standard . In: Infoworld , April 22, 1996. 
  9. ^ Anne Morris: Smartphones not such a smart move - Openwave CTO . February 18, 2003. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  10. ↑ a b c d e Anna O'Sullivan: Internet Explorer Creator to Speak at Columbia University Graduation . May 7, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ Thomas Reardon . Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  12. ↑ CTRL-labs's armband lets humans control machines with their brains . Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  13. ↑ Ctrl-labs raises $ 28 million from GV and Alexa Fund for neural interfaces ( en-US ) February 22, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ CTRL Labs .
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SURNAME Reardon, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES TR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computational neuroscientologist and company founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1969