Frank Thomson ("Tom") Leighton is a professor of Applied Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and co-founded Akamai Technologies with student Daniel Lewin. Leighton received his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1978, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Books
- Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays, Trees, Hypercubes (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991), ISBN 1-55860-117-1
- Complexity Issues in VLSI: Optimal layouts for the shuffle-exchange graph and other networks (MIT Press, 1983), ISBN 0-262-12104-2
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