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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The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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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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People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.
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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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There's no silver bullet. We have to change as we go. The problems aren't going to go away overnight.
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That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,
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We're confident we can get a rate that works in the 2006 budget,
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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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With the additional pedestrian traffic we are projecting downtown and the additional retail stores, we want to guarantee safety,
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We offered it, but they rejected it, ... They have no use for it.
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It's very interesting to see what the security cameras can do and how long of a range they have,
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Everyone is open for consideration, ... I think we are going to look at people who would do a commendable job and honor the wishes of our residents. I know the administration will act quickly and council will do the same.
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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.
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There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.