By the early 1970s his research interests changed from coding and communication theory to theoretical computer science. He has done research in computational complexity, circuit complexity, space-time tradeoffs, 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 has published more than 110 research articles and given more than 185 invited technical presentations worldwide.
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 and as a member of the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission in 2015. He served as a Professorial Fellow of the EastWest Institute from 2014 to 2020 when it was dissolved.
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. He gave testimony before the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism of the Senate Judiciary Committee terror on April 12, 2011.
A more comprehensive, but incomplete, biographical statement can be found here. A complete vitae can be found here.
Cyberspace - Taming the Wild West Jefferson Science Fellow Distinguished Lecture, US State Department, March 23, 2010 |
Hearing of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, April 12, 2011. John Savage's testimony begins at 1:41 minutes. |
Silver Bullet Talks with John Savage (No video), IEEE Security and Privacy, by Gary McGraw, January 24, 2011. |
Cyberspace Policy and Technology, The Sarah and John Graves Distinguished Cybersecurity Lecture, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, October 14, 2016 |
Technology and the Future of Work Part 1, White House Chronicle, February 2, 2018 Guests: Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management; John Savage, Brown University |
Blockchain Governance: Lessons learned from Internet Governance (No video),
A summary of a talk given at ETH Zurich, March 8, 2018. |
Technology and the Future of Work
Part 2, White House
Chronicle, |
Humanizing the Internet of things, White House Chronicle, John Savage, Brown University, October 5, 2018 |
Cyber Security – A Societal Grand Challenge, John Savage's Retirement Lecture, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, December 13, 2018 |
The worries and wonders of AI, White House Chronicle, John Savage, Brown University, May 3, 2023 |