F. Thomson Leighton

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name = Frank Thomson ("Tom") Leighton
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field = Applied Mathematics
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Akamai Technologies
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Frank Thomson ("Tom") Leighton is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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 Technologies with student Daniel Lewin in 1998. 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 is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His brother David T. Leighton is a full professor at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in transport phenomena [http://www.nd.edu/~chegdept/Leighton.html] .

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

External links

* [http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=28 CSAIL bio]
* [http://www.akamai.com/html/about/management_tl.html Akamai bio]
* [http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~ftl/ Home page]

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