Mr. Reardon was raised in an Irish-Catholic household, one of 18 children. Thomas Reardon is a math and science prodigy attending classes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before he even graduated high school. After he had graduated high school he moved to North Carolina where he met Bill Gates and began his Microsoft career. In 2003 he was listed in MIT Technology Review; as one of the top innovators under 35. Even though his impact to the world of technology was significant in 2004 he decided to switch directions in go to school at Columbia University of General Studies; where he graduated Magma Cum Laude in 2008. Later achieving his Master's in Neuroscience at Duke University in 2010.
As I previous stated Thomas Reardon is most well known for his work on Internet Explorer. He started working for Microsoft in the summer of 1994 starting off with Windows 95. While working on Windows 95 he begin coming up with ideas that will later become I.E. he was only 24. Thomas Reardon started implementation on I.E. version 1.0 with only a team of six people using the source code from Mosaic. I.E. was originally released in Microsoft Plus!. He continued to be involved with the creation of Internet Explorer into the late 90's including when it peeked as the number one used internet browser with I.E. 5. The ubiquity of I.E. paved the way to how we interact with web. It exists as the default standard to which other browser’s are bench-marked and compared too. Even now when its market share is approximately 35% Internet Explorer’s legacy lives on. Yesterday he gave a speech to Columbia University graduating class of 2012
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