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The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
Da Capo Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
264 pages
ISBN: 0306821664
EAN: 9780306821660
Kindle: B00BVTSD1W
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical
genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a
faster, better Internet. It’s the story of a beautiful
friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his
soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent
years struggling to make ends meet only to become a
billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai
Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he
cofounded with his mentor.
Danny Lewin’s brilliant
but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those
closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly
mourned their loss. For Lewin was almost certainly the first
victim of 9/11, stabbed to death at age 31 while trying to
overpower the terrorists who would eventually fly American
Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But ironically it was
9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin’s vision—while
phone communication failed and web traffic surged as never
before, the critical news and government sites that relied
on Akamai—and the technology pioneered by Danny
Lewin—remained up and running.
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