Akamai Technologies, Inc. ( NASDAQ: AKAM) is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. Akamai's Network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms. The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist.