Tom Knight

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Tom Knight is affiliated with the following schools: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University

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PhD Electrical Engineering Stanford University
Masters Electrical Engineering Stanford University
Bachelors Electrical Engineering Stanford University

Why Is Tom Knight Influential?

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Tom Knight is a synthetic biologist and computer engineer for his company, Ginkgo Bioworks. He began his studies at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology at the tender age of 14, taking advantage of the school’s close proximity to his home.

With a background in computer programming and organic chemistry, he has made a number of important contributions to computer science. His work featured prominently in the creation of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. He wrote the original kernel for ITS operating system and designed one of the earliest semiconductor memory-based bitmap displays.

Some other important contributions to the field include the first silicon retina, the single-chip optical mouse and the Transit multiprocessor interconnection architecture. He co-founded Permabit and Exa Corporation, businesses that supply and develop B2B technology solutions.

With Jack Holloway, he designed and rolled out Chaosnet, the first LAN on MIT’s campus. Aside from his computer science work, Knight was keenly interested in synthetic biology. From his biology lab, he developed a library of BioBricks, leading to his informal coronation as the godfather of synthetic biology. These Biobricks form the foundation of the annual iGEM competition.

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According to Wikipedia, Tom Knight is an American synthetic biologist and computer engineer, who was formerly a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a part of the MIT School of Engineering. He now works at the synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks, which he cofounded in 2008.

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Tom Knight 's Published Works

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Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts (2008) (725)
Idempotent Vector Design for Standard Assembly of Biobricks (2003) (393)
An architecture for mostly functional languages (1986) (216)
Asymptotically Zero Energy Split-Level Charge Recovery Logic (1994) (146)
Practical implementation of charge recovering asymptotically zero power CMOS (1993) (135)
Engineered Communications for Microbial Robotics (2000) (135)
Pathfinder : A Negotiation-Based Performance-Driven Router for FPGAs (2012) (134)
Toward in vivo Digital Circuits (2002) (128)
Low-fat pointers: compact encoding and efficient gate-level implementation of fat pointers for spatial safety and capability-based security (2013) (117)
GraphStep: A System Architecture for Sparse-Graph Algorithms (2006) (106)
Architectural Support for Software-Defined Metadata Processing (2015) (94)
A LISP machine (1974) (94)
A self-terminating low-voltage swing CMOS output driver (1988) (83)
Comprehensive Profiling of Four Base Overhang Ligation Fidelity by T4 DNA Ligase and Application to DNA Assembly. (2018) (83)
Cellular Gate Technology (1998) (72)
Assembly of BioBrick standard biological parts using three antibiotic assembly. (2011) (59)
Automatic impedance control (1993) (54)
Engineering novel life (2005) (44)
7A projection map of the S-layer protein sbpA obtained with trehalose-embedded monolayer crystals. (2007) (44)
PUMP: a programmable unit for metadata processing (2014) (42)
Design of an integrated optical sensor with on-chip preprocessing (1983) (39)
LISP Machine Progress Report. (1977) (38)
METRO: a router architecture for high-performance, short-haul routing networks (1994) (36)
The Emerging World of Wikis (2008) (29)
Introduction of customized inserts for streamlined assembly and optimization of BioBrick synthetic genetic circuits (2010) (28)
Ultimate theoretical models of nanocomputers (1998) (27)
Preliminary design of the SAFE platform (2011) (26)
Non-dissipative rail drivers for adiabatic circuits (1995) (21)
A single-molecule sequencing assay for the comprehensive profiling of T4 DNA ligase fidelity and bias during DNA end-joining (2018) (21)
Design and performance of multipath MIN architectures (1992) (20)
Hardware Support for Safety Interlocks and Introspection (2012) (20)
Abacus: a 1024 processor 8 ns SIMD array (1995) (18)
Genetic Process Engineering (2004) (18)
Inferring the Minimal Genome of Mesoplasma florum by Comparative Genomics and Transposon Mutagenesis (2018) (17)
Reversibility in Optimally Scalable Computer Architectures (1997) (17)
Fault Tolerant Design for Multistage Routing Networks (1990) (16)
A 160/spl times/120 pixel liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplay with an adiabatic DACM (1999) (14)
Development of oriC-Based Plasmids for Mesoplasma florum (2017) (14)
DARPA BioComp Plasmid Distribution 1.00 of Standard Biobrick Components (2002) (14)
Computer aided evolutionary design for digital integrated systems (1980) (12)
Technologies for low latency interconnection switches (1989) (11)
RN1: Low-Latency, Dilated, Crossbar Router (Extended Abstract) (1991) (11)
Routing Statistics for Unqueued Banyan Networks (1990) (11)
Transmission line clock driver (1999) (9)
Technologies for low latency interconnection switches (1991) (9)
Genome‐scale metabolic modeling reveals key features of a minimal gene set (2021) (9)
A 1.6Gb/s/pair electromagnetically coupled multidrop bus using modulated signaling (2003) (9)
Complete Genome Sequence of the Mesoplasma florum W37 Strain (2013) (8)
Building a better butterfly: the multiplexed metabutterfly (1994) (8)
Integrative characterization of the near‐minimal bacterium Mesoplasma florum (2020) (8)
ITS 1.5 Reference Manual (1969) (8)
DIMACS Workshop on Evolution as Computation Toward in vivo Digital Circuits (2004) (7)
Manufacturability of capacitively coupled multichip modules (1994) (7)
Implementation of a list processing machine (1979) (7)
A LISP Machine (1980) (6)
Engineering a family of synthetic splicing ribozymes (2010) (6)
Fast and easy protocol for the purification of recombinant S-layer protein for synthetic biology applications. (2011) (6)
Optimization of Golden Gate assembly through application of ligation sequence-dependent fidelity and bias profiling (2018) (5)
Reclassification of Mesoplasma pleciae as Acholeplasma pleciae comb. nov. on the basis of 16S rRNA and gyrB gene sequence data. (2004) (5)
Advanced research in VLSI and parallel systems : proceedings of the 1992 Brown/MIT conference (1992) (4)
Guaranteeing Idempotence for Tightly-Coupled, Fault-Tolerant Networks (1994) (4)
An alignment insensitive separable electromagnetic coupler for high speed digital multidrop bus applications (2003) (4)
A Scalable Cellular Logic Technology Using Zinc-Finger Proteins (2004) (4)
Packaging and Multiplexing of Hierarchical Scalable Expanders (1994) (3)
Experimental Conformation of the Basic Principles of Length-only Discrimination (2001) (3)
Fast Arbitration in Dilated Routers (1994) (2)
High Performance, Point-to-Point, Transmission Line Signaling (1998) (1)
Engineering transcription-based logic (2005) (1)
Transit: reliable high speed interconnection technology (1994) (1)
Conservation of information: applications in functional, reversible, and quantum computing (2003) (1)
Proceedings of the 1992 Brown/MIT conference on Advanced research in VLSI and parallel systems (1992) (1)
BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts (2015) (1)
Symbolics , Inc . : A failure of heterogeneous engineering (1998) (1)
Analysis , Design and Implementation of High Speed Electrical Interconnects in Si VLSI (2001) (1)
Title: Developing a Low Power Reversible Processor (2007) (0)
Transit Note #95 Unifying Fpgas and Simd Arrays (1994) (0)
Life with Four Billion Atoms (2013) (0)
Amorphous and Cellular Computing (2001) (0)
Fault-tolerant design for multistage routing networks. Memorandum report (1990) (0)
COMMENTARY : FUNCTIONAL SPECTS OF MATING SYSTEM EVOLUTION I PLANTS Nearly two centuries ago (2007) (0)
A Coherent VLSI Environment (1987) (0)
A Coherent VLSI Design Environment (1985) (0)
Critical problems in very-large-scale computer systems. Semiannual technical report, 1 October 1989-31 March 1990 (1990) (0)
Programming Technology for Molecular-Scale Computing (2004) (0)
Arpa Baa 95-18 Scalable Systems and Software Reversible Computing for Energy Eecient and Trustable Computation (2007) (0)
Building a Better Butter y : The Multiplexed Metabutter yFrederic (1994) (0)
Critical problems in very-large-scale computer systems. Semiannual technical report, 1 April-30 September 1989 (1988) (0)
Making Proteins within a Cell (1997) (0)
THREE-DIMENSIONAL PACKAGING FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERCONNECT IN LARGE-SCALE VLSI SYSTEMS (1995) (0)
Amorphous Computing 1 (1995) (0)

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