Frank Thomson ("Tom") Leighton is a professor of Applied Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and co-founded Akamai Technologies with student Daniel Lewin. Leighton received his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1978, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His brother David Leighton is a full professor at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in transport phenomena. A professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) (prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is known for its strength in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Computation can be defined as finding a solution to a problem from given inputs by means of an algorithm. ... MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL, is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formed on July 1, 2003 by the merger of MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. ... Akamai Technologies, Inc. ... Daniel Danny M. Lewin (1970 – September 11, 2001) was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for cofounding internet company Akamai Technologies. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity and electromagnetism. ... Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ... A doctorate is an academic degree of the highest level. ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Founded in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in the United States provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. ...

Books

• Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays, Trees, Hypercubes (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991), ISBN 1-55860-117-1
• Complexity Issues in VLSI: Optimal layouts for the shuffle-exchange graph and other networks (MIT Press, 1983), ISBN 0-262-12104-2

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• Akamai bio
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