No Better Time
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Paramount Digital Entertainment,
89–90
Pardes, Anne. See Lewin, Anne
Pasko, Chris, 172–175
Pathfinder, 105, 133
PC. See Personal computers
Penenberg, Adam L., 158
Perot Systems, 152
Personal computers (PC), 26
Playboy, 116
Akamai and, 121–122
Poduska, J. William, 78
Polaris Venture Partners, 107, 149, 153
Conrades at, 151
Polaroid, 12, 65, 68
Pollack, Andrew, 158
Pony Express, 17–18
Pornography, 121–122
Porter, Bill, 81
Postal service, 152
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, 217
Preston, John, 70
Price Waterhouse Coopers, 147–148
Prime Computer, 78
Princeton University, 46–47
Probabilistically checkable proofs, 83–84
Project Mathematics and Computation (Project MAC), 7–8
Prospectus drafting, 173
Protekzia, 28
Public relations, 160
Publicity, 134
Public-key encryption, 3, 11
Publishing
Dodis on, 55
Lewin, D., on, 55–56
Qualcomm, 11
QuickTime III, 128
QuickTime player, 164
QuickTime TV, 137, 163
Ramat Gan, 39
Rand Corporation, 7n
Random trees, 83
Randomized algorithms, 12–13
Real Player, 164
RealNetwork, 164
Reform Judaism, 25
Rephen, Brad, 33
on Lewin, D., 30–31
Rhode Island, 54
Rickover, Hyman, 45
Riders, 18–19
Riemann Hypothesis, 45
Rivest, Ron, 8, 11
Roadrunner, 105
Rockefeller family, 107n
RSA Data Security, 8
Saatchi & Saatchi, 217
Sagan, Carl, 106
Sagan, Paul, 104–105, 122, 159, 165–166, 208, 222
at Akamai, 106, 124
on CNN, 188
Galleher and, 167, 178
Gassel and, 133
on Lewin, D., 213
media savvy of, 119
on news business, 131–132
on 9/11, 210
on Yahoo, 129–130
Sahai, Amit, 48, 49, 55
on Leighton, T., 50
Salomon Smith Barney, 93, 189
Samson’s Gym, 30–33
Sandpiper, 122, 166
Akamai and, 157–158
Sarig, Ronen, 31
on Lewin, D., 33
SAS. See Special Air Service
SATs, 10
Sayeret Matkal, 23, 40
history of, 34–35
Lewin, D., in, 34, 37–38
recruitment process, 35–36
Schvimmer, Eric, 133
Scientific American (magazine), 26
Sconyers, John, 120, 193
at Akamai, 122, 123, 146
SCUD-B missiles, 39
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 171, 173, 178
Seelig, Jonathan, 77, 81, 89, 100, 103, 116, 195
at Akamai, 94–95, 108, 112
infrastructure focus of, 124
on Lewin, D., 71–72, 199
servers installed by, 112, 124
Senor, Dan, 41
September 11, 2001. See 9/11 attacks
Sequoia Capital, 90, 103, 129, 130
Servers
acquisition of, 124
costs of, 111–112
installation of, 112, 124
problems with, 117
Service-Level Agreement (SLA), 126–127
Shabbat, 37
Shamir, Adi, 11
Sherman, Alex, 77
Shiva, 213–214
Shouk, 33
Silicon Spice, 70
Silicon Valley, 9, 180
Singer, Saul, 41
Sitara Networks, 77, 79
SLA. See Service-Level Agreement
Sloan School of Business, 55, 67, 70, 71, 122
Spacewar, 48
Special Air Service (SAS), 35
“Speed Racer” (Penenberg), 158
Speedera, 157
Spinard, Paul, 165–166
SportsLine USA, 127
Sprint, 158
SRI. See Stanford Research Institute
Sri Lanka, 125
Staehle, Wolfgang, 183
Stanford, 4, 9, 129
Stanford Research Institute (SRI), 77
Star Trek (television show), 89–90
Star Wars (film), 114
Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace (film), 128
Starr, Kenneth W., 99, 118
Start-Up Nation (Senor and Singer), 41
Starwars.com, 128
Starwave Corp., 125
Sting, 102
Stylus Innovation, Inc., 70, 80
Sullivan, Andrew, 61
SunAmerica, 74, 100, 154
al-Suqami, Satam, 203, 218
Swart, Andrew, 157
Sweeney, Madeline, 202, 218
Symposium on Discreet Algorithms, 68
TCP/IP. See Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCS. See Theoretical computer science
Tech Square, 13, 49, 92
Technion, 13–14
Lewin, D., at, 41
Technology Licensing Office, MIT, 70, 74
Tel Aviv, 4, 33, 214
attacks on, 39–40
Temple Sinai, 25
Teradyne, 81
Terrorism, 3, 28, 33, 39–40, 202–203
Thau, Robert, 77
Theoretical computer science (TCS)
algorithms in, 60–61
as discipline, 10
Leighton, T., on, 10–11, 47–48
Theory Jeopardy, 52
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, 173
Ticketmaster, 190
Time Inc. New Media, 105, 131
Time sharing, 3
Time Warner, 105
Times Mirror Corp., 157
Tobin, Scott, 77, 93, 106
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), 8
True Solutions, 111–112, 117
Turing, Alan, 47
algorithms used by, 60
Turing machine, 60
Tzanhanim, 36
UC Santa Barbara, 7
Uganda, 35
Ulpan, 28
the Unit. See Sayeret Matkal
Universal, 116, 123, 185
Universal Music Group, 184
University of California Los Angeles, 32
University of Chicago School of Business, 150
University of Michigan Business School, 141
University of Southern California, 11
University of Utah, 7
URLs, 20
Vadhan, Salil, 48, 51, 55
Vanity Fair (magazine), 38
Veblen, Oswald, 47
Venrock, 108
Akamai invested in by, 107
Vermont, 54
Vezza, Albert, 77
Viant, 9
Victoria’s Secret, 190
Virtual handshakes, 8
Visa, 131
Viterbi, Andrew James, 11
Viterbi algorithm, 11
Volunteer Community Connection, 82
von Neumann, John, 1, 47
Vonnegut, Kurt, 109
W3C. See World Wide Web Consortium
Wall Street, 134, 141, 186
Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 154, 155, 158
Walt Disney Internet Group, 126
Walt Disney Television, 152
Waltham, 112
Warner Brothers, 116
Washington Post (newspaper), 99, 133,
211
Was
hington-Lee High School, 45–46
WCBS-TV, 105
WebRadio.com, 158
WeddingBell.com, 81
Weinbaum, Jake, 125
Weise, Elizabeth, 20
Weller, Tim, 210
Wenner, Jann, 103, 176
Wesleyan University, 149
Westinghouse Science Talent Search, 46
What Can Be Automated? (research study), 47
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , 77
WIRED (magazine), 165–166
Word games, 54–55
World Economic Forum, 104–105
World Trade Center, ix, 203, 207, 217
World Wide Web. See Internet
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 8, 20, 160
Wozniak, Steve, 26
Wynkoop, Melanie, 147–148
Yahoo, 116, 122, 123, 137, 160, 161
Akamai and, 129–130, 171
history of, 129
Sagan, P., on, 129–130
Yang, Jerry, 129
Yerushalmi, Yoav, 77
Young, Jeff, 144
at Akamai, 160–161
Young, Steve, 120
Ziegler’s Giant Bar, 61
Ziner, Wendy, 160
Zionism, 26–27
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{*} In 2003, MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) merged with the Artificial
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{†} *A number of scientists pioneered aspects of packet switching, including Paul Baran at Rand Corporation, who developed the architecture of packet networks, and Donald Davies at England’s National Physics Laboratory, who coined the term “packet.”
{‡} *Here, the term “hackers” refers to a community of computer programming and systems design enthusiasts that originated out of MIT in the 1960s. This definition exists separately from today’s mainstream usage of the word “hacker” to refer to cybercriminals.
{§} *Venrock, founded in 1969, is the Rockefeller family’s venture fund with offices in Massachusetts, New York, and California.
{**} *GTE Corporation was formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1959-1982).
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