Peter B. Danzig

pdanzig AT danzigthomas DOT com

Danzig is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University Southern California. Danzig  is former Vice President of Technology of  Akamai Technology's west coast team, where he directed engineering and business development. He has published extensively. Danzig's research on Internet object caches became the reference implementation for Internet web caches and the basis of the most successful commercial Content Delivery Networks, Squid,  the Cisco cache engine, and Network Appliance's NetCache.

Danzig served as chief architect and CTO of Network Appliance's NetCache division. Danzig founded Internet Middleware Corporation to build the first industry grade web caches, and sold the company to Network Appliance in 1997.

Danzig received his B.S. in Applied Physics from University of California Davis and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley. He has won the NSF National Young Investigator award, two USC Innovative Teaching Awards, and the U.C. Berkeley Angelokous award.

Danzig and his wife Lava Thomas live in Menlo Park, California.   He has taught classes at Stanford for the past five years: Distributed systems in 2001; Distributed systems projects in 2002, 2003, and 2004; and  Computer Networking   in 2005.       

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