Molly Knight Raskin-No Better Time-the Life 911 Victim & Net Genius Danny Lewin

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political reporter for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Producer of
documentaries for PBS & much more. Molly is author of No
Better Time a Bio of Danny Lewin.  No Better Time from
journalist, TV producer,author & more  Molly Knight Raskin
-(Da Capo Press, 9/2013). The bio of Danny Lewin and Tom Leighton
at MIT and more.  No Better Time tells of a young, driven
mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create
a faster, better Internet. It’s the story of a beautiful friendship
between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT
professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to
make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with
the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery
network he cofounded with his mentor. Danny Lewin’s brilliant but
brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to
him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss. For
Lewin was almost certainly the first victim of 9/11, stabbed to
death at age 31 while trying to overpower the terrorists who would
eventually fly American Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But
ironically it was 9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin’s
vision—while phone communication failed and web traffic surged as
never before, the critical news and government sites that relied on
Akamai—and the technology pioneered by Danny Lewin—remained up and
running.