Tom Knight is a senior research scientist in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the MIT EECS department.

Tom Knight arrived at MIT when he was fourteen. He built early hardware such as ARPANET interfaces for host #6 on the network, some of the first bitmapped displays, the ITS time sharing system, Lisp machines (a version of which's operating system he was instrumental the release of under a BSD license), the connection machine, and parallel symbolic processing computer systems.

He currently works on the cross-section between computation and biology in the area of synthetic biology.

External links

• Knight Lab
• Current webpage at MIT
• Former webpage at MIT (more informative)
• The Readme for the release of an early Lisp Machine OS under a BSD license

American hackers | Lisp programming language