Thomas Walker Lynch's Startup Participation
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Reasoning Technology
Role: Founder
Website: ReasoningTechnology.com
Description: Founded in 2009 to develop and commercialize novel AI systems, originally with a focus on the legal-tech market. Current work includes new chain-of-thought methods, alignment experiments, and platform tools that explore how humans and AIs can reason together more effectively.
Website: ReasoningTechnology.com
Description: Founded in 2009 to develop and commercialize novel AI systems, originally with a focus on the legal-tech market. Current work includes new chain-of-thought methods, alignment experiments, and platform tools that explore how humans and AIs can reason together more effectively.
Quicksilver Technologies
Role: Contributor
Description: Company was developing a 9 core heterogeneous multiprocessor. Wonderful team, but they were very busy on other cores. I was left alone to design a programmable radio front end processor from scratch.
Description: Company was developing a 9 core heterogeneous multiprocessor. Wonderful team, but they were very busy on other cores. I was left alone to design a programmable radio front end processor from scratch.
Created a novel architecture that met performance by having two levels of
microcode, one to configure the arithmetic units to stream, and the
other to program the chip. Added Babbage like difference engines as
very capable address generators.
Wrote a cycle accurate model for the processor, wrote the test bench,
and wrote the assembler to generate the machine code for testing. The
head of the tools group, Andy Krumel, was nice enough to say that I
should not hesitate call myself a tool smith.
NetEffect
Role: Contributor
Description: Participated in the development of a TCP Offload Engine (TOE). Designed and implemented a critically needed SystemC-based testing tool that validated the simulation environment and enabled full architectural bring-up.
Description: Participated in the development of a TCP Offload Engine (TOE). Designed and implemented a critically needed SystemC-based testing tool that validated the simulation environment and enabled full architectural bring-up.
21st Century Telephone
Role: Founder
Description: Founded a smartphone startup before the word “smartphone” was widely used. Designed the Dragonfly, an advanced handheld communications concept whose IP later seeded work with Intellectual Ventures. The project explored early mobile UI, integrated data/voice architectures, and social-media-like applications a decade ahead of the mainstream.
Description: Founded a smartphone startup before the word “smartphone” was widely used. Designed the Dragonfly, an advanced handheld communications concept whose IP later seeded work with Intellectual Ventures. The project explored early mobile UI, integrated data/voice architectures, and social-media-like applications a decade ahead of the mainstream.
Tempered Hardware and Software
Role: Founder
Description: Founded a VLSI design consultancy specializing in custom processors and applied mathematics in microarchitecture. Delivered a major contract for Chromatic Computers, including a complete processor test bench and a comprehensive set of complex instruction functions. During this work, developed a novel high-speed arctangent algorithm, with C++ simulation and testing support from Fred Tydeman.
Description: Founded a VLSI design consultancy specializing in custom processors and applied mathematics in microarchitecture. Delivered a major contract for Chromatic Computers, including a complete processor test bench and a comprehensive set of complex instruction functions. During this work, developed a novel high-speed arctangent algorithm, with C++ simulation and testing support from Fred Tydeman.