| Tom Leighton AKA Frank Thomson Leighton Born: c. 1956
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Mathematician, Business Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-founder of Akamai Brother: David T. Leighton
University: BS Engineering, Princeton University (1978)
University: PhD Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981)
Professor: Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982-)
Professor: CS and AI Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996-)
Akamai Co-Founder and Chief Scientist (1998-)
Member of the Board of Akamai (1998-)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Association for Computing Machinery Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the ACM
National Academy of Engineering 2004
National Academy of Sciences 2008
Author of books:
Complexity Issues in VSLI Optimal Layouts for the Shuffle-Exchange Graph and Other Networks (1983)
Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays, Trees, Hybercubes (1992)
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