Daniel Lewin
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| Born |
Daniel Mark Lewin May 14, 1970 Denver, Colorado |
| Died | September 11, 2001 (aged 31) On board American Airlines Flight 11 |
| Cause of death | Stabbed |
| Nationality | American-Israeli |
| Alma mater |
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (BA, BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Co-founded Akamai Technologies |
| Home town | Jerusalem |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Lewin |
| Children | Eitan Lewin (son) Itamar Lewin (son) |
| Parent(s) | Charles Lewin (father) Peggy Lewin (mother) |
| Relatives | Jonathan Lewin (brother) Michael Lewin (brother) |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 Israel
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| Service/branch |
 Sayeret Matkal
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| Rank | Captain |
Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (Hebrew: דניאל "דני" מארק לוין; May 14, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded internet company Akamai Technologies. He was the first victim of the September 11 attacks. A passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, it is believed that Lewin was stabbed by one of the hijackers of that flight, and was the first person murdered during the course of the attacks.
Lewin was born May 14, 1970 in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Israel.
He served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, one of the more notable IDF special forces units. Lewin earned the rank of captain.
He attended the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa while simultaneously working at IBM's research laboratory in the city. 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 Advanced Micro Devices and SGS-Thomson.
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 (MIT) in 1996. While there, he and his advisor, Professor F. Thomson Leighton, came up with innovative algorithms for optimizing Internet traffic. These algorithms became the basis for Akamai Technologies, which the two founded in 1998. Lewin served as the company's chief technology officer and a board member, and during the height of the Internet boom achieved great wealth. He was posthumously named one of the most influential figures of the Internet age.
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