Tom Leighton
Tom Leighton
Frank Thomson "Tom" Leighton is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of Akamai Technologies. He has served as the head of the Algorithms group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since 1996, and co-founded Akamai with student Daniel Lewin in 1998. He served on the Presidential Informational Technology Advisory Committee, during which time he served as the chair of subcommittee on cybersecurity. In 1974, while a senior in high school,...
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We are under constant attack. At any given time, we have a lot of servers taken down. And it doesn't matter, because we direct traffic elsewhere.
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With the additional pedestrian traffic we are projecting downtown and the additional retail stores, we want to guarantee safety,
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We cut to the bare bone. That's how we got to this point, ... Expenses continue to rise, but revenues are staying in a straight line.
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We're confident we can get a rate that works in the 2006 budget,
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That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,
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I think they need to perform very thorough background checks, ... I am in favor of helping those in need, but if the programs are not being run properly, I have an obligation to protect our residents and visitors and help prevent things like the tragedy that just occurred.
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I hate to travel, but it has to be done. These are not fun trips. These are trips we prepare for weeks, ... On all these trips, we came back with some really great results.
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The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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I had nothing to do with it, ... It's not a Taj Mahal by any means. It's a standard building.
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These trips had a large impact on the future of the City of Wilkes-Barre and where we are going on the financial side, ... The city was in financial distress. I'm very proud that we paid all our bills and our vendors.
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This is a very important project for the southern end of town, ... Most of the people here are familiar with the problems here with the bridges.
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If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't be worried about being watched,
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We offered it, but they rejected it, ... They have no use for it.
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Taxes are our main revenue, ... We have to rebuild the city by attracting working class families. To do that we need good jobs and affordable housing in a clean, safe city.