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Frank Thomson "Tom" Leighton (born 1956) is the CEO of Akamai Technologies, the company he co-founded with the late Daniel Lewin in 1998. As one of the world's preeminent authorities on algorithms for network applications and cybersecurity, Leighton discovered a solution to free up web congestion using applied mathematics and distributed computing.
Jun 26, 2006 · Tom Leighton is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was head of the Algorithms Group from its inception in 1996 until 1998, when he co-founded Akamai Technologies.
Tom Leighton is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (currently on leave). In 1998, he co-founded Akamai Technologies, where he is currently the CEO and a member of the Board of Directors.
2015, Eric Lehman, F Tom Leighton, Albert R Meyer. This work is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
May 15, 2024 · Tom Leighton is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (currently on leave). In 1998, he co-founded Akamai Technologies, where he is currently the CEO and a member of the Board of Directors.
In 1998, Professor Leighton co-founded founded Akamai Technologies, the world's leading internet content delivery network. He currently serves as Akamai's chief scientist and is a member of its board of directors. Professor Leighton is a preeminent authority on algorithms for network applications and is published on cryptography, parallel ...
Areas of Interest and Expertise. Distributed Information and Control Systems. Parallel and VLSI Computation. Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Methods of Applied Mathematics. Network Architectures. Theoretical Computer Science. Applied Mathematics. Enumerative Combinatorics and Graph Theory. Algorithms.
