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Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Jerusalem , where he served for four years in the Israel Defence Forces . He was an officer in Sayeret Matkal , an elite and secretive counter-terrorism unit. He attended the Technion university in Haifa , Israel while simultaneously working at IBM 's research laboratory in Haifa. While at IBM, he was responsible for developing the Genesys system, a processor verification tool that is used widely within IBM and in other companies such as AMD and SGS Thompson. Upon receiving a Bachelor Of Arts and a Bachelor Of Science , Summa Cum Laude , in 1995 , he traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to begin graduate studies toward a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology in 1996 . While there, he and his advisor, Professor F. Thomson Leighton , came up with innovative algorithms for optimizing the Internet; these algorithms became the basis for Akamai, which the two founded in 1998. Lewin served as the company's Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and a board member, and during the height of the internet boom was a multi-billionaire, and today would still be a multi-millionaire. He was named one of the most influential figures of the Internet age. Danny was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11, 2001 Attacks . It is reported that he may have attempted to foil the hijacking according to a 2002 FAA memo, but this is in dispute. Lewin is survived by his wife and two sons. AWARDS
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