14 Facts About Thomas Reardon

Thomas Reardon was born on 1969 and is an American computational neuroscientist and the CEO and co-founder of CTRL-labs.

Thomas Reardon is credited with creating the project to build Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, which was the world's most used browser during its peak in the early 2000s.

Thomas Reardon founded CTRL-labs in 2015 with neuroscientists from Columbia University.

Thomas Reardon is one of 18 siblings, eight of them adopted.

At one point, Thomas Reardon constituted Microsoft's entire Internet Explorer development team.

Thomas Reardon served as a program manager and architect for Internet Explorer through version 4.

Thomas Reardon was a founding board member of the World Wide Web Consortium and worked with W3C and other standards agencies as Microsoft's representative to establish many of the standards and precedents that still govern the World Wide Web.

Thomas Reardon was one of the earliest advocates and influencers of HTML4, CSS, and XML, designing the first commercial implementations of these languages.

Thomas Reardon expressed disillusionment with Microsoft after the Netscape ordeal, ultimately deciding to leave to start a wireless networking startup called Avogadro.

Thomas Reardon later joined OpenWave, a mobile software company, where he served as general manager and then vice president, finally being appointed chief technology officer, a post he held until 2004.

In 2004, Thomas Reardon went back to college, studying Classics at the Columbia University School of General Studies.

In 2012 Thomas Reardon gave the commencement address at his alma mater Columbia University.

Thomas Reardon began the address quoting "my favorite Roman philosopher" Seneca in Latin: "What matters most is whether one is extending one's life or merely delaying one's death".

Thomas Reardon presently sits on the board of directors at Transportation Alternatives, and on the board of visitors at the School of General Studies and the Zuckerman Institute.