Daniel Akenine
Born | Skåne, Sweden | January 17, 1974
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Occupation | Writer; technology officer Microsoft |
Daniel Akenine is an author, IT architect and former researcher in neurophysics. In 2008, he was ranked by IDG as one of "Sweden’s top 10 developers/architects"[1] and the same year appointed as National Technology Officer at Microsoft.[2]
In 2015 Daniel received an IASA Fellowship for his work in the field of IT-architecture – one of the highest international awards in the field with profiles as Grady Booch as former recipients.[3] In 2018 the newspapers Ny Teknik[4] and Voister[5] described Akenine as one of the developers of the technology behind blockchain. In 2019 Daniel was appointed member of the Swedish commission for digitalization[6] by the Minister of Digital development and in 2022 he was ranked as one of Sweden's 50 most influential persons in tech.[7]
In 2023 Daniel was elected as a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.[8]
Biography
[edit]Akenine is a graduate of Lund University where he studied engineering physics, economics and law. After graduating Akenine began his career in a research group at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, working with mathematical models of the human brain. During a later period at the Royal Institute of Technology, Akenine developed and launched one of the first anonymization services for Internet users. A service later acquired.[9] During his time at the Nasdaq stock exchange, Akenine developed and patented the cryptographic algorithm SecureLog[10] – today mainly used in the financial sector to protect digital logs from tampering.
Akenine is the former chairman for the Swedish IT architect organization which he co-founded in 2007.[11] He is a frequent commentator on matters of IT and privacy and a member in the international ISO:s expert committee for cloud standards.[12]
Authorship
[edit]After writing mostly non-fiction books Akenine debuted in 2014 with the thriller 11 grams of truth. The novel is about a man named Simian, using big data, psychology and machine learning to succeed in manipulating our world towards a predetermined future. The rights to the book were sold to the United States before it was published[13] and Akenine was named by Aftonbladet, the largest newspaper in Sweden, as one of three debutants not to miss in 2014.[14]
Bibliography
[edit]- Fundamentals of IT-architecture (ISBN 978-91-7697-245-8, 2022)
- Humans and AI (ISBN 978-91-7785-404-3, 2018)
- 11 grams of truth (ISBN 9789186775933, 2014)
- The IT-architecture book (ISBN 9789175579535, 2014)
- Integrity (Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, 2014)
- Migrating to the Cloud (ISBN 978-3826692246, 2013)
References
[edit]- ^ "Ten top developers". Computer Sweden.
- ^ Stefan Bohlin. "Daniel Akenine new CTO at Microsoft". IDG.
- ^ "Iasa Global announces new Iasa Fellow Daniel Akenine". December 27, 2016.
- ^ "Svenskarna som byggde en blockkedja långt innan bitcoin". Ny Teknik (in Swedish). Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ^ "Mannen som grundade blockkedjan". Voister. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ^ "Nya ledamöter i regeringens Digitaliseringsråd". Archived from the original on July 4, 2019.
- ^ "Tech50 2022". Tech Awards Sweden. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
- ^ "IVA gets a boost with 40 new Fellows – here is the list". www.iva.se. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
- ^ Karin Lindström. "IT professions need to be clearer". Computer Sweden.
- ^ US patent 20060053294A1, Daniel Akenine, "System and method for proving time and content of digital data in a monitored system", published 2006-03-09
- ^ "IASA Sweden".
- ^ Hö (2012). Cloud Migration, Google Books. MITP-Verlags GmbH & Co. KG. ISBN 9783826692253.
- ^ "Microsoft Security chief writes a book about our surveillance society". Hoi Publishing.
- ^ Cecilia Gustavsson. "Here are the books you do not want to miss". Aftonbladet.