Daniel Akenine

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 by a Canadian company. During his time at the Nasdaq stock exchange, Akenine developed and patented the cryptographic algorithm SecureLog – 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. He is a frequent commentator on matters of IT and privacy and a member in the international ISO:s expert committee for cloud standards. ==Authorship==

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 and Akenine was named by Aftonbladet, the largest newspaper in Sweden, as one of three debutants not to miss in 2014. ==Bibliography==