F. Thomson Leighton
Computer Scientist
Who is F. Thomson Leighton?
Frank Thomson "Tom" Leighton is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of Akamai Technologies. He has served as the head of the Algorithms group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since 1996, and co-founded Akamai with student Daniel Lewin in 1998. He served on the Presidential Informational Technology Advisory Committee, during which time he served as the chair of subcommittee on cybersecurity. In 1974, while a senior in high school, he was named one of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalists. Leighton received his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1981. He has an Erdős number of at most 2. His brother David T. Leighton is a full professor at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in transport phenomena. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Science & the Public and of the Center for Excellence in Education, and he has participated in the Distinguished Lecture Series at CEE's flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute.
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- Also known as
- Tom Leighton
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Princeton University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Chief Scientist, Akamai Technologies
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on July 23, 2013
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