John Savage

An Wang Professor of Computer Science
Box 1910, Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-7642 (voice)
401-863-7657 (fax)
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Center for Information Technology, Room 503
Send me email at: jes@cs.brown.edu

Biographical Sketch

Professor Savage earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1965 specializing in coding and information theory. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1965 and the faculty of the Division of Engineering at Brown in 1967. In 1979 he co-founded the Department of Computer Science and served as its second chair from 1985 to 1991. By the early 1970s his research interests changed to theoretical computer science. His current research interests are cybersecurity technology and policy, reliable computation with unreliable components, computational nanotechnology, efficient cache management on multicore chips, and I/O complexity. 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.

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.

My 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

Research on Nanotechnology	Recent Publications

Recently Taught Courses CSCI 0510, Models of Computation CSCI 1800, Cybersecurity and International Relations	Recent Service Activities Vice Chair (2000-2001), Chair (2001-2002), and Past Chair (2002-2003) of the Faculty and the Faculty Executive Committee Chair (2002-2003) of the Task Force on Faculty Governance President (1999-2002) of the Board of Managers of the Brown Faculty Club Distance Learning Web Pages prepared for The Committee on Electronically Mediated Instruction
Talks, Interviews, Congressional Testimony Cyberspace - Taming the Wild West, Jefferson Science Fellow Distinguished Lecture, US State Department, March 23, 2010
Silver Bullet Interview, podcast posted January 24, 2011. Transcript of Silver Bullet Interview, IEEE Security & Privacy, July/August 2011.	Testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism "Cyber Security: Responding to the Threat of Cyber Crime and Terrorism," April 12, 2011. The action starts 25 minutes into the video.

Home People

John Savage

Biographical Sketch

My Books

Research on Nanotechnology

Recent Publications

Recently Taught Courses

Recent Service Activities

Talks, Interviews, Congressional Testimony

Silver Bullet Interview, podcast posted January 24, 2011. Transcript of Silver Bullet Interview, IEEE Security & Privacy, July/August 2011.

Testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism "Cyber Security: Responding to the Threat of Cyber Crime and Terrorism," April 12, 2011. The action starts 25 minutes into the video.

Silver Bullet Interview, podcast posted January 24, 2011.
Transcript of Silver Bullet Interview, IEEE Security & Privacy, July/August 2011.