John Savage

Biographical Sketch

By the early 1970s his research interests changed from coding and communication theory to theoretical computer science. He has done research in computational complexity, VLSI synthesis and theory, parallel algorithms and theory, scientific computation, reliable computation with unreliable components, computational nanotechnology, efficient cache management on multicore chips, and I/O complexity. His current research interests are in cybersecurity technology and policy,

He is a Fellow of AAAS and ACM, a Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Research Award. He served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. State Department during the 2009-2010 academic year. He is a Professorial Fellow of the EastWest Institute and member of the Board of Thinkers of the Boston Global Forum.

His professional service has included service on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences and as a member of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1991-2002.

A more comprehensive, but incomplete, biographical statement can be found here.

Books

• Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing Addison-Wesley, 1998. (Freely available electronically!)
• The Mystical Machine (with S. Magidson and A. Stein), Addison-Wesley, 1986.
• The Complexity of Computing, John Wiley and Sons, 1976; Robert E. Kreiger Publishing Company, 1987; Russian Translation. by Factorial Publishing, 1998

Brown Faculty Bulletin Articles

• J.E. Savage, Budgetary Priorities for Brown, Brown Faculty Bulletin, Volume XII, Number 2, (April 1999).
• J.E. Savage, The Role of Tenure in Higher Education, Brown Faculty Bulletin, Volume X, Number 2 (May, 1998)
• J.E. Savage, Strategic Directions Task Force Reports: An Evaluation, Brown Faculty Bulletin, Volume X, Number 1 (November, 1997).