Thomas Reardon
Thomas Reardon | |
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TR35 (2003) | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information technology Computational neuroscience |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas Jessell Attila Losonczy |
Thomas Reardon (born 1969) is an American
Early life
Reardon is originally from New Hampshire, from an Irish-Catholic background. He is one of 18 siblings, eight of them adopted.[4] Described as a "math and computer prodigy," Reardon took graduate-level math and science classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while in high school. He moved to North Carolina at age 16.[3][6]
Early tech career
While in North Carolina, Reardon co-founded a startup at age 19.[6] After the startup's acquisition, he met Bill Gates and joined Microsoft for 10 years as a program manager on the Windows 95 and Windows 98 projects.[3][7]
At one point, Reardon constituted Microsoft's entire Internet Explorer development team.
During Reardon's tenure, Internet Explorer surpassed Netscape Navigator as the most-used web browser in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in what came to be known as the
In 1998, Microsoft became embroiled in
Reardon later joined
Higher education
In 2004, Reardon went back to college, studying Classics at the Columbia University School of General Studies.[3][7] He credits a conversation with physicist Freeman Dyson for inspiring him to widen his worldview.[1]
In 2008, Reardon graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a B.A. in Literature and Classical Languages. By 2010, he had also earned an M.S. in Neurobiology from Duke University.[1][2]
In 2012 Reardon gave the
Reardon completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University in 2016.[1] He presently sits on the board of directors at Transportation Alternatives,[13] and on the board of visitors at the School of General Studies [14] and the Zuckerman Institute.[15]
CTRL-labs
The flagship device of CTRL-labs has been called an "API for the brain"[3] by TechCrunch and a "wristband to let human beings control machines with their minds" by CNBC.[16]
In February 2019, CTRL-labs announced raising $28 million in a Series B financing round from Google Ventures, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Lux Capital, Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Breyer Capital, and Fuel Capital.[17]
VentureBeat features a series of demos for CTRL-Labs' technology.[18][19]
In November 2019, CTRL-labs was acquired by Facebook in a deal reportedly between $500 million and $1 billion.[20][21] The team was integrated into Facebook's AR/VR research group.
Publications
- Reardon, Thomas; Murray, Andrew; Turi, Gergely; Wirblick, Christopher; Croce, Katherine; Schnell, Matthias; Jessell, Thomas; Losonczy, Attila (17 February 2016). "Rabies Virus CVS-N2cΔG Strain Enhances Retrograde Synaptic Transfer and Neuronal Viability". Neuron. 89 (4): 711–724. PMID 26804990.
References
- ^ a b c d e f O’Sullivan, Anna (May 7, 2012). "Internet Explorer Creator to Speak at Columbia University Graduation". Columbia School of General Studies. Archived from the original on 2019-06-23. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Thomas Reardon". Department of Neuroscience at Columbia. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "Thomas Reardon and CTRL-Labs are building an API for the brain". TechCrunch. November 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ a b c Columbia (2012-05-29), 2012 School of General Studies Class Day Ceremony, retrieved 2019-03-09
- ^ Mack, Heather (27 September 2019). "Facebook Deal Suggests Path Forward for Brain-Computer Tech - WSJ". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b "Neural Interfaces and the Future of Human-Computer Interaction | Thomas Reardon". Hidden Forces. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- ^ a b c d Mocarski, Michelle (April 20, 2012). "GS Class Day speaker swapped computers for classics". Columbia Spectator. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Thomas Reardon, 34". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ Silwa, Carol (July 29, 1996). "Microsoft and Netscape Take Battle to Distributed Object Front". Network World. No. 13, 31.
- ^ a b Costello, Sam (November 6, 2000). "Start-up CEO reveals little about company's big wireless dreams". Infoworld.
- ^ Ferranti, Marc (April 22, 1996). "Web group fights for HTML standard". Infoworld.
- ^ Morris, Anne (February 18, 2003). "Smartphones not such a smart move – Openwave CTO". Total Telecom. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ "Staff and Leadership".
- ^ "Board of Visitors". Columbia University School of General Studies. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
- ^ "The Brain Trust". 26 March 2019.
- ^ "CTRL-labs's armband lets humans control machines with their brains". www.cnbc.com. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ "Ctrl-labs raises $28 million from GV and Alexa Fund for neural interfaces". VentureBeat. 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ VentureBeat (2018-12-05), Ctrl-Labs: Ctrl-Kit: Demo 1, retrieved 2019-03-09
- ^ VentureBeat (2018-12-05), Ctrl-Labs: Ctrl-Kit: Demo 2, retrieved 2019-03-09
- ^ Rodriguez, Salvador (2019-09-23). "Facebook agrees to acquire brain-computing start-up CTRL-labs". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-11.