The company was founded by a then graduate student at MIT, Daniel Lewin (along with applied math professor Dr. Tom Leighton, who currently serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist). He died at the age of 31 as a passenger on one of the flights that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Akamai Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a corporation that provides, among other services, global Internet content caching.
Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning "intelligent" or "clever." Beyond the name, the company has no ties with Hawaii.
Lewin died at the age of 31 as a passenger on one of the flights that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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