Daniel M. Lewin

Daniel " Danny" Mark Lewin ( born May 14, 1970 in Denver, Colorado; † 11 September 2001 in New York City ) was a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of Akamai.

Life

Lewin grew up in Jerusalem, where he served for four years in the Israeli army and officer of the anti -terrorism unit Sayeret Matkal was. After studying at the Technion in Haifa, and while working at the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, he continued his studies at MIT. During his doctoral work, he founded the Akamai Content Distribution Network, a leading provider of solutions for the delivery and acceleration of online content. Lewin was the Chief Technical Officer of Akamai and weddings of the Internet boom multi-billionaire.

When the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 Daniel Lewin died as a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane that flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He was probably already killed by the assassins at the beginning of the kidnapping when he tried to thwart this may.