Photo, left:  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 the internet company Akamai Technologies. He died in the September 11 attacks. A passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, it is believed that Lewin was likely stabbed by one of the hijackers of that flight, and was the first person murdered during the course of the attacks.
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 travelled 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.
Lewin is the subject of the 2013 biography, No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin, published by Da Capo Press; author interview below, Hour Three.
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 1, Block A: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach, by Martin Reeves and Knut Haanaes (1 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 1, Block B: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach, by Martin Reeves and Knut Haanaes (2 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 1, Block C: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach, by Martin Reeves and Knut Haanaes (3 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 1, Block D: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach, by Martin Reeves and Knut Haanaes (4 of 4)
 
Hour Two
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 2, Block A:  Safe Is Not an Option: Overcoming the Futile Obsession with Getting Everyone Back Alive that Is Killing Our Expansion into Space, by Rand Simberg and William Simon (1 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 2, Block B:  Safe Is Not an Option: Overcoming the Futile Obsession with Getting Everyone Back Alive that Is Killing Our Expansion into Space, by Rand Simberg and William Simon (2 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 2, Block C:  Safe Is Not an Option: Overcoming the Futile Obsession with Getting Everyone Back Alive that Is Killing Our Expansion into Space, by Rand Simberg and William Simon (3 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 2, Block D:  Safe Is Not an Option: Overcoming the Futile Obsession with Getting Everyone Back Alive that Is Killing Our Expansion into Space, by Rand Simberg and William Simon (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 3, Block A:  No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin  (1 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 3, Block B:  No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin  (2 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 3, Block C:  No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin  (3 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 3, Block D:  No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin  (4 of 4)
 
Hour Four
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 4, Block A:  A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age, by Matt Richtel (1 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 4, Block B:  A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age, by Matt Richtel (2 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 4, Block C:  A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age, by Matt Richtel (3 of 4)
Sunday 15 May 2016  / Hour 4, Block D:  A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age, by Matt Richtel (4 of 4)
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