Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (Hebrew: דניאל (דני) מארק לוין; May 14, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies. Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome Akamai Technologies Inc ( is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in
Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Jerusalem, where he served for four years in the Israel Defence Forces. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) (צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit He was an officer in Sayeret Matkal, an elite and secretive intelligence unit. Sayeret Matkal (סיירת מטכ"ל Translation: General Staff Reconnaissance Unit is the main Special forces unit of the Israeli Defence Force
He attended the Technion university in Haifa, Israel while simultaneously working at IBM's research laboratory in Haifa. The Technion &ndash Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון &ndash מכון טכנולוגי לישראל is an internationally-acclaimed Institute of technology in Haifa (חֵיפָה; حَيْفَا) is the largest City in Northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country with For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology While at IBM, he was responsible for developing the Genesys system, a processor verification tool that is used widely within IBM and in other companies such as AMD and SGS Thompson.
Upon receiving a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in 1995, he traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to begin graduate studies toward a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an Academic degree was earned Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) While there, he and his advisor, Professor F. Thomson Leighton, came up with innovative algorithms for optimizing the Internet; these algorithms became the basis for Akamai, which the two founded in 1998. Frank Thomson ("Tom" Leighton is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lewin served as the company's Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and a board member, and during the height of the internet boom achieved great wealth. A chief technical officer or chief technology officer (abbreviated as CTO) is an executive position whose holder is focused on scientific and technical issues within He was posthumously named one of the most influential figures of the Internet age.
Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11, 2001 attacks, apparently toward the beginning of the hijacking. A 2002 FAA memo suggests he may have been killed by hijacker Satam al-Suqami after he attempted to foil the hijacking. A law student Satam M A al-Suqami ( Arabic: سطام السقامي (born June 28 1976; died September 11, 2001) was one of five [1] According to the FAA, Lewin was seated in business class in seat 9B, close to hijackers Mohammed Atta and Satam al Suqami (who was possibly seated behind him). It was first reported that he had been shot by al Suqami, which was later changed to being stabbed. Lewin is survived by his wife and two sons. After his death, the intersection of Main and Vassar Streets in Cambridge was renamed "Danny Lewin Square" in his honor[2].
Awards
- 1995 - Technion named him the year's Outstanding Student in Computer Engineering.
- 1998 - Morris Joseph Levin Award for Best Masterworks Thesis Presentation at MIT.
External links
- Akamai Remembers Danny Lewin
- Best student award and notes by his advisor
- Consistent hashing for relieving hot spots on the world wide web
References
- ^ "UPI hears...", United Press International, 2002-03-06. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Retrieved on 2006-11-27. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont
- ^ Volume 122, Issue 47 - The Tech
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