Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (Hebrew: דניאל (דני) מארק לוין); (May 14, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies. He died in the September 11 attacks.
Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Israel.
He served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, one of the more notable IDF special forces units. Lew...
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Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (Hebrew: דניאל (דני) מארק לוין); (May 14, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies. He died in the September 11 attacks.
Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Israel.
He served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, one of the more notable IDF special forces units. Lewin earned the rank of captain.
He attended the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa while simultaneously working at IBM's research laboratory in the city. 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 Advanced Micro Devices and SGS-Thomson.
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 Doctor of...
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