Akamai Technologies, Inc. ( /ˈɑːkəmaɪ/; NASDAQ: AKAM) is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. Akamai's Network is the world's largest distributed computing platforms. The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Lei...
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. ( /ˈɑːkəmaɪ/; NASDAQ: AKAM) is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. Akamai's Network is the world's largest distributed computing platforms. The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent with connotations of insightful or wise or skillful.
Leighton has served as head of the Algorithms Group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science since its inception in 1996. Believing that a solution to Web congestion could be found in applied mathematics and algorithms, Leighton solicited the help of MIT graduate student Danny Lewin and others. Together, they developed the mathematical algorithms necessary to handle the dynamic routing of...
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