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by Molly Knight Raskin


  Customer service, 115, 145, 159–160

  CyberSafe, 152

  Dagres, Todd, 77, 104

  on Akamai, 93–94, 106

  on Leighton, T., 142–143

  Dalton, Sean, 77

  Danny Lewin Square, 221

  D’Arbeloff, Alexander Vladimir, 81

  DARPA. See Advanced Research Projects Agency

  David, Yaakov Ben. See Lewin, Charles

  Davies, Donald, 7n

  Davos conference, 105

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. See Advanced Research Projects Agency

  Department of Defense, 7

  Dertouzos, Michael, 8, 77

  DIGEX, 120, 135

  Digital Island, 157

  Direct Hit, 80

  Discovery, 121

  Disney, 116, 123

  Akamai and, 125–127

  Disney Online, 137

  DNS. See Domain Name System

  Dodis, Yevgeniy, 48, 50, 53, 84, 91

  on publishing, 55

  Domain Name System (DNS), 17–18

  problems with, 19

  Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, 173

  Dot.Con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era (Cassidy), 141

  Dow Jones Internet Composite Index,

  141

  Dr. Dre, 185

  Dragon, Randy, 126, 137

  E! Online, 158

  Earthlink, 158

  eBags, 165

  eBay, 76

  EdgeSuite, 189–190, 197, 211

  Lewin, D., on, 193

  success of, 216–217

  Ehrenkranz, Joel S., 103

  Einstein, Albert, 87

  Eisner, Michael, 126

  El Al, 213–214

  The Elite (Katz), 35

  Eminem, 185

  Entebbe, 35, 40

  Entertainment Tonight (television), 128

  Erdos, Paul, 43

  ESPN.com, 125, 126

  E*Trade, 81

  European Operations, Akamai, 183

  Exodus Communications, 103, 111, 117

  Facebook, 175, 221

  Farber, David, 157–158

  Farmclub.com, 184, 189–190

  Fatherhood, 54

  Fault-tolerance, 57

  Fed Ex, 152, 216

  Federal Aviation Administration, 217

  Fiber optic cables, 18

  $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, MIT

  history of, 70–71, 78

  Lewin, D., entering, 68–69

  winners of, 81–82

  Filo, David, 90, 129, 131

  on Lewin, D., 130

  Firefly Network, 70

  First Intifada, 28

  Flash crowd phenomenon, 83

  Fool.com, 134

  Footprint, 157

  Forbes (magazine), 152, 158, 175, 195–196

  Francis, Bruce, 188

  Frank, Richard, 152

  FreeFlow, 104, 116, 118, 120, 138, 177–178, 211

  benefits of, 114–115

  efficiency of, 113–114

  French Hill, 28, 29, 31

  Frictionless, 9

  Friesen, Gilbert, 116, 160, 184

  on Akamai, 101–102

  on Lewin, D., 103, 184

  Galactic Network, 6

  Galleher, Earl, 154, 159–161

  at Akamai, 120–121, 123–124

  Gibbs and, 135

  on Lewin, D., 120, 123–124

  Sagan, P., and, 167, 178

  on work, 194

  Game theory, 163

  Gann, Orli, 14

  Gardner, David, 134

  Gardner, Tom, 134

  Gassel, Sam, 132, 160

  on 9/11, 212

  Sagan, P., and, 133

  Gates, Bill, 147–148, 155, 195

  General Motors, 178

  General Staff Reconnaissance Unit. See Sayeret Matkal

  Geocities, 116

  Gertner, John, 91

  Gibbs, Dwight, 134

  Galleher and, 135

  Lewin, D., and, 135–136, 193

  Gibbush, 36

  Gibushon, 36

  Givati, 36

  Gleick, James, 97

  Global Center, 90

  Global Hosting Systems, 69–70

  GO Network, 160, 165

  Golani, 36

  Goldbach, Christian, 46

  Goldbach’s Conjecture, 45–46

  Goldman Sachs, 172

  Google, 7–8, 49, 221

  Gore, Al, 8

  Gorenberg, Mark, 78, 80, 90

  Greenberg, Marco, 39, 41, 77, 90, 145, 160, 220

  at Akamai, 118–119

  with Cachet, 74

  Leighton, T., and, 75–76

  on Lewin, D., 9–10, 31–33, 72–75,

  83–84, 166–167, 177, 187–188, 196, 218–219

  on math, 72–73

  wedding of, 100

  GTE Corporation, 150

  Gulf War, 39–40

  Gurwasami, Venkat, 48

  Haaretz (newspaper), 178

  Hacker Haven, 89, 92, 104

  Haifa, 27–28, 41

  Hancock, Ellen, 104

  Hard Rock Cafe, 103

  Hargil, Nitsan, 189

  Harvard, 155, 163, 172

  Hashing. See Consistent hashing

  Hebrew, 27, 30

  classes, 28–29

  Hebrew University, 32

  Hezbollah, 37

  High Performance Computing and Communication Act, 8

  Hofstad, Remco Van der, 51

  Honeywell, 149

  Hot spot problem, 20–21, 83

  Lewin, D., researching, 55–56

  House Oversight Committee, 99

  HTML. See Hypertext markup language

  Hummer Winblad, 78, 80, 90

  Hussein, Saddam, 39

  Hypertext markup language (HTML), 20

  IBM, 107, 149, 183

  Conrades at, 150

  The Idea Lab (Gertner), 91

  IDF. See Israel Defense Forces

  Inapproximability, 51

  Infinity, 21, 45

  mathematics and, 47

  Infoseek, 125, 160

  Akamai and, 127–128

  Initial Public Offering (IPO), 154, 157, 171–173, 178–179

  Leighton, T., during, 174–176

  Lewin, D., during, 174–176

  Inktomi, 76, 77, 122, 157

  Insana, Ron, 186

  Institute for Advanced Study, 47

  Intel ISEF. See National Science Fair

  Intel STS. See Westinghouse Science Talent Search

  Internet, 3

  architecture of, 17

  Clinton scandal and, 99–100

  decommissioning of, 8

  growth of, 19–20

  on 9/11, 210–212

  origins of, 6–7

  page loading, 18–20

  speed of, 113

  traffic, 157

  Internet Service Provider (ISP), 17

  Interscope Geffen A&M, 184

  InterVu, Inc., 183

  Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays, Trees, Hypercubes (Leighton), 12

  Intuit, 159

  Investor’s Business Daily, 171

  Iovine, Jimmy, 184, 185

  IP addresses, 17–18

  IPO. See Initial Public Offering

  “Is the Internet Poised to Collapse” (Weise),

  20

  ISP. See Internet Service Provider

  Israel, 27–28, 118

  Lewin, D., and, 4, 178, 198

  See also Jerusalem

  Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 4, 34, 196

  recruitment process, 35–36

  iTunes, 217

  J. C. R. See Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett

  Java Weenies, 146, 155

  Jerusalem, 38–39, 165

  Lewin, A., in, 28–29

  Lewin, C., in, 28–29

  See also Israel

  Jerusalem Municipality, 219

  The Jerusalem Report, 142, 164


  Jewish National Fund, 219

  JFK-Nixon debates, 99

  Jihad, Abu, 37

  Jobs, Steve, 128, 137, 139, 164

  Akamai and, 138

  John F. Kennedy Airport, 214

  Joseph Morris Levin Award, 83

  JP Morgan, 183

  Judson, David, 201–202, 207–208

  Kaino, Glenn, 184–185

  Kaplan, Randall, 74, 77, 100, 102, 125

  at Akamai, 108

  Conrades and, 154

  Lewin, D., and, 154, 177

  resignation of, 154

  Kapor, Mitch, 78

  Karger, David, 56, 58, 77, 82

  Katz, Samuel M., 35

  Kaufman Brothers, 189

  Khan, Bob, 8

  Kleinrock, Leonard, 7

  Kloninger, Sef, 211

  on Lewin, D., 144–145

  Knots, 14

  Knuth, Donald, 61–62

  Koffel, Will, 146, 155, 180

  at Akamai, 156–157

  on Lewin, D., 146, 181

  at MIT, 156

  Kresge Auditorium, 81

  Labor Day, 94

  Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), 3–4

  atmosphere at, 50

  Lewin, D., at, 48–51

  softball in, 52–53

  Land, Edwin, 65

  Langer, Mark, 183

  Las Vegas, 193, 194

  LCS. See Laboratory for Computer Science

  Lehman, Eric, 48–49, 52–53, 55–56, 176

  on Lewin, D., 57–58

  Leighton, Alexander, 13, 89

  Leighton, David, 45

  Leighton, Helen, 45

  Leighton, Tom, 41, 100, 152, 190–191, 194, 208

  at Akamai, 92–93, 95–96, 108, 115–116, 125, 182

  Berger and, 12–13

  Berners-Lee and, 20–21

  on business plans, 68–69, 127

  as CEO, 222

  childhood of, 45–46

  on computer science, 47–48

  Conrades on, 143

  on consistent hashing, 62–63

  Dagres on, 142–143

  Goldbach’s Conjecture and, 45–46

  Greenberg and, 75–76

  intellect of, 142–143

  in IPO, 174–176

  on layoffs, 200

  Lewin, D., and, 3–5, 15–16, 68–69, 142, 148–149, 197–198, 200, 216, 219, 222

  marriage of, 12–13

  at MIT, 10–11

  on 9/11 attacks, 208–210

  on parallel algorithms, 48

  President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, 217

  at Princeton University, 46–47

  Sahai on, 50

  on TCS, 10–12

  wealth of, 181–182, 195–196

  on work, 194

  Levine, Matthew, 55–56

  Lewin, Anne, 4, 9, 15, 115, 175, 209, 220

  career of, 31

  financial struggles of, 67, 84

  in graduate school, 55

  in Jerusalem, 28–29

  Lewin, D., and, 39–41, 195

  marriage of, 41, 195

  at MIT, 53–54

  Lewin, Charles, 25–27, 165, 219

  career of, 31

  in Jerusalem, 28–29

  Lewin, D., and, 198

  Lewin, Daniel Mark, ix, 57–58

  at Akamai, 76–77, 95–96, 101–102, 108, 112, 115–116, 143, 215

  at Algorithms Group, 90–92

  in army, 147

  attitude of, 32–33, 194

  Austin on, 162–163

  Beret March of, 36–37

  Berger on, 15–16, 142

  Bruckstein on, 13–15

  burial of, 217

  business plans of, 68–69, 72–73

  business savvy of, 143–144

  caching studied by, 56–57

  in Cambridge, 4

  childhood of, 25, 27

  competitive spirit of, 159

  on consistent hashing, 57–59

  death of, 202–203, 207–208, 215, 217–218

  on EdgeSuite, 193

  Entrepreneurship Competition entered by, 68–69

  as father, 54

  Filo on, 130

  financial struggles of, 67, 84, 100–101

  Friesen on, 103, 184

  Galleher on, 120, 123–124

  Gibbs and, 135–136, 193

  Greenberg on, 32–33, 72–75, 83–84, 166–167, 177, 187–188, 196, 218–219

  on hiring, 154–155

  hot spot problem research of, 55–56

  humor of, 143

  in IPO, 174–176

  in Israel, 4, 198

  on Israel, 178

  Kaino on, 184–185

  Kaplan and, 154, 177

  Kloninger on, 144–145

  Koffel on, 146, 181

  on layoffs, 200

  at LCS, 48–51

  leadership style of, 144–145, 147,

  197

  Leighton, T., and, 3–5, 15–16, 68–69, 142, 148–149, 197–198, 200, 216, 219, 222

  Lewin, A., and, 39–41, 195

  Lewin, C., and, 198

  loss of, 215

  marriage of, 41, 195

  memorial service of, 214

  at MIT, 9–10, 53–54

  motorcycle rides of, 181–182

  in New Brunswick, 85

  in 9/11 attacks, 201–203, 217–218

  at Ort, 29–30

  personality of, 123–124

  physique of, 5, 31–32, 165

  as presenter, 101–102

  publishing, 55–56

  Rephen on, 30–31

  Sagan, P., on, 213

  Sarig on, 33

  in Sayeret Matkal, 33–34, 37–38

  Seelig on, 71–72, 199

  servers installed by, 112

  as single man, 196

  on softball, 52–53

  success of, 165

  at Technion, 41

  temper of, 143

  theatricality of, 101–102

  on Theory Jeopardy, 52

  thesis of, 82–83

  wealth of, 181–182, 195–196

  word games of, 54–55

  Lewin, Eitan, 15, 41, 51, 54–55, 67, 75, 196, 220

  Lewin, Itamar, 41, 51, 54–55, 67, 75, 196,

  220

  Lewin, Jonathan, 25, 27, 219, 220

  Lewin, Michael, 25–27, 219–220

  Lewin, Peggy, 25–26, 31, 165, 198, 219

  Lewinsky, Monica, 99

  Lexicus, 70

  “Lick.” See Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett

  Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett, 6

  Light, 18–19

  Linux, 111–112, 124

  Lockups, 186–187

  Logan International Airport, 201

  Los Angeles, 32

  Lotus Development Corp., 78

  Loudeye, 185

  Lucas, George, 128

  Lysyanskaya, Anna, 48, 84, 91

  Machtey Award, 12

  MacWorld Expo, 163–164

  Malo, Laura, 144

  motorcycle rides of, 181–182

  March Madness, 127

  Marcus, Amy, 155

  Martha Stewart Living, 165

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 3–4, 47

  Akamai and, 154–155, 176–177

  Entrepreneurship Competition, 68–69, 70–71, 78, 81–82

  Koffel at, 156

  Leighton, T., at, 10–12

  Lewin, A., at, 53–54

  Lewin, D., at, 9–10, 53–54

  Technology Licensing Office, 70, 74

  Mathematics, 1

  Greenberg on, 72–73

  infinite cases and, 47

  See also Algorithms

  Mathematics Genealogy Project, 51

  McGuinness, Thomas, 201

  McKinsey & Co., 89, 162

  Mea She’arim, 29

  Merkaz klita, 28

  Metcalfe, Robert, 8, 20

  Mevaseret Zion, 28

&
nbsp; MGM, 116

  Microsoft, 70, 155, 193, 221

  Akamai and, 166–167

  Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI), 220

  Mirroring, 79

  MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Modems, 16–17

  Monster.com, 165

  Montgomery Securities, 93

  Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, 172, 173, 175

  Moritz, Michael, 130

  Morris, Doug, 184

  Morton, Peter, 103, 176

  Moss, Jerry, 102

  Mossad, 40

  The Motley Fool, 160, 171

  Akamai and, 134–135

  Motorcycles, 181–182

  Mr.Showbiz.com, 125

  MSNBC, 100, 211

  Mullig, Monty, 212

  Murray Hill, 90

  Nachman, Rabbi, 191

  Nahal, 36

  NASDAQ, 175–176, 216

  Akamai on, 185–186

  National Cash Register Company, 149

  National Physics Laboratory, 7n

  National Research and Education Network (NREN), 8

  National Science Fair, 46

  National Science Foundation (NSFNET), 8

  Naval Academy, 45

  Nazem, Farzod, 129, 130

  NCAA, 127

  NCR. See National Cash Register Company

  NDA. See Non-disclosure agreement

  Nelkin, Stacey, 100, 187

  Netanyahu, Benjamin, 35, 219

  Netanyahu, Yonatan, 35

  Network Operations Command Center (NOCC), 122, 146, 159, 207, 209

  Networkfleet, 82

  Netzer, Lior, 37, 38, 218

  New Brunswick, 85

  “The New Cool” (Spinard), 165–166

  The New York Post (newspaper), 211

  The New York Times (newspaper), 158, 161, 179

  Newport, 54

  Newsweek (magazine), 40

  Nijhawan, Preetish, 55, 77, 81, 89

  business plans of, 67–69

  Nijhawan, Shirin, 55

  9/11 attacks, ix

  Akamai during, 209–210

  Cambridge during, 209–210

  Gassel on, 212

  Internet on, 210–212

  Leighton, T., on, 208–210

  Lewin, D., in, 201–203, 217–218

  Sagan, P., on, 210

  9/11 Commission, 203, 217

  NOCC. See Network Operations Command Center

  Non-disclosure agreement (NDA), 155

  Nortel Networks, 160

  Northwestern University, 105

  Novartis, 190, 217

  NREN. See National Research and Education Network

  NSFNET. See National Science Foundation

  NY1, 105

  NYPR, 118

  Obstreperous, 54–55

  Ogonowski, John, 201

  Oketz, 36

  Olim hadashim, 30

  Ollendorff Chair of Science, 14

  al-Omari, Abdulaziz, 203

  Ong, Betty, 202, 218

  Operation Desert Storm, 40

  Ort, 29–30

  P vs. NP, 45

  Packet switching, 7

  Palestinian guerilla groups, 28

  Panigrahy, Rina, 55–56

  Papa, Steve, 77

  Parallel algorithms, 41

  Leighton, T., on, 48

  Paramount, 116, 128

 

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