Attending the 9th IEEE NCA 2010 in Cambridge, MA
July 2010, I attended the 9th edition of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA10), which was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I had the possibility to visit several well-known Universities such as Harvard University (leadership in law) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which is a private research university located in Cambridge. While attending the Conference we visited Akamai Technologies, Inc., where prof. Tom Leighton offered us a short tour explaining the products and services offered by the company.
Visiting Akamai Technologies, Inc., July 2010.
Akamai, is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States, and it was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel Lewin, along with MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Leighton still serves as Akamai’s Chief Scientist, while Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001.
In Boston I shared 6 days with my friend Jesus Llor, a PhD Student from Miguel Hernandez University in Alicante, Spain. Jesus is doing an internship in Boston, at Northeastern University, where he is doing research in underwater wireless communications. We spend very nice time visiting Boston, Cambridge, and the MIT and Harvard Universities campuses.
Visiting the MIT dome, July 2010.
A panoramic view of Harvard University square, July 2010.
Well, we had also some chances to enjoy the American life style, playing poker and eating Hamburguers.
California Burguer and Samuel Adams, the perfect combination!
Posted: julio 18th, 2010 under Teaching & Research.