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F. Thomson Leighton
Frank Thomson Leighton | |
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 Leighton in 2022 | |
| Born | October 28, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BSE) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Spouse | Bonnie Berger |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics |
| Institutions | Akamai Technologies Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Layouts for the shuffle-exchange graph and lower bound techniques for VLSI (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gary Miller |
| Doctoral students | Peter Shor, Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Robert Kleinberg, Satish Rao[1] |
Frank Thomson "Tom" Leighton (born 1956) is an American mathematician who is the CEO of Akamai Technologies, the company he co-founded with Daniel Lewin in 1998,[2] and a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
- ^ "F. Thomson (Frank) Leighton". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ Erik Nygren, Ramesh Sitaraman, and Jennifer Sun. "The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications, ACM SIGOPS" (PDF). Operating Systems Review. 44. July 2010.
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