Thomas Reardon
| Thomas Reardon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 47–48) |
| Fields |
Information technology Computational neuroscience |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Education |
Columbia University (BA, 2008; PhD, 2016) Duke University (M.S., 2010) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Thomas Jessell Attila Losonczy |
| Known for |
Internet Explorer W3C |
| Notable awards | TR35 (2003) |
Thomas "TR" Reardon (born 1969) is an American computational neuroscientist and the CEO and co-founder of Cognescent Corporation. Formerly, he was a computer programmer and developer at Microsoft. He is credited with creating Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, which is currently discontinued, but was the world's most used browser during its peak (2002/03).
Reardon is originally from New Hampshire, from an Irish-Catholic background. He is one of 18 siblings. 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. After graduating from high school, he moved to North Carolina to start a software company. While there, he met Bill Gates and joined Microsoft as a program manager on the Windows 95 and Windows 98 projects.
At one point, Reardon constituted Microsoft's entire Internet Explorer development team. He developed and oversaw the release of Internet Explorer 3 in 1996, and came up with the idea of bundling Internet Explorer with the Microsoft Windows operating system. IE3 was the first incarnation of Explorer to seriously compete with Netscape Navigator, which until that point had been the most popular browser. Under Reardon's leadership, 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 First Browser War. Reardon is one of the founders of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 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. Reardon was one of the earliest advocates and architects of the XML, CSS, and HTML languages.
...
Wikipedia